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So, I came across this and decided to chime in since I actually have some artifacts of the old Citadel paint line.

When I first started out, I bought sets like crazy! Here are the remnants of the Citadel Ork and Eldar, Creature, Expert, Monster, Metallic and Space Marine paint sets. Plus some I picked up individually. The first pic from left to right is: Imperial Purple, Worm Purple, Fire Dragon Crimson, Hobgoblin Orange, Go Fasta Red, Terracotta, 2 pots of Blood Angel Orange and Sunburst Yellow (I think) Second pic has, from left to right: Chaos Black, Salamander Black, another Black, probably Chaos, Codex Grey, Ghoul Grey, 2 blues that might be Enchanted Blue or Moody Blue, Marine Dark Blue or Midnight Blue (I honestly don't know any more and they aren't labeled!) Spearstaff Brown, Snakebite Leather, Hawk Turquoise, Bilious Green and Scorpion Green. The third pic are the metallics, left to right: Chainmail, Polished Blue, Glistening Green, Beaten Copper, Dwarf Bronze, Burnished Gold, Shining Gold and 2 pots of Mithril Silver. The last pic are the inks, from left to right: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Brown, Chestnut and Black.

Before you ask, some of the old colors just didn't last through storage (probably because I didn't store them correctly also! ) Bleached Bone, Goblin Green, Blood Red, Skull White, Orc Brown, Bad Moon Yellow, Titillating Pink, Elf Grey, Beastial Brown and *sigh* Tin Bitz! (Oh, I gave away Amethyst Purple to my Eldar playing friend back in the day) I mourned every one that didn't survive...but thankfully, there's alternatives out there that replicate those colors and I've replaced some already. The only P.I.T.A. about them are the metallics clumping up after all this time and they take forever to shake to a usable condition!

For those curious, the paints that do not have any labels are essentially the oldest paints since they were sold as part of now defunct paint sets by Citadel. While those paints were sold individually with proper labeling of their names, but in the sets they had no label. So, anything from the sets I mentioned before, Creature, Monster, Space Marine, etc. etc. will be the oldest paints. How valuable that makes them is anyone's guess really...personal preference in all I suppose. The paint comparison chart that goes from old Citadel to new Citadel to Vallejo Game and Model Color, etc etc that's around here in one of the other forums doesn't even include some of those paints from the sets. They are simply forgotten, which sucks for this old fart who still has those paints but only has a vague idea of what a newer brand and color might look like in comparison. Oh and for the record, the old Terracotta does NOT look anything like XV-88!!