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sadly i never got to experience the wonders of the older pots, only the hex pots where designed to dry out :/

i still call any new paints by there old names like skull white and scorched brown.

also Averland Sunset is one of my new favored paints, though slightly orange brown.

BryllCream wrote:Why do GW even want to make sure that each name for their paints is trademarkable? How could this benefit offset the impact of making pretty much all the names feth-ugly to say.

The old names were actually pretty cool, the older ones anyway (the newer ones got kinda weird). I will always have a place in my heart for Skull White...I remember my first tub of that with the Ork Bad Moon symbol thing on it. Good times.
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Yeah, the good old days. I liked the old names too, even if m parents would comment on them (FYI, I always bought my own stuff with money from chores, my parents just liked to know what it was, lol). Skull white they assumed was an off white and they assumed Blood Red was more like blood red rather than the orange-red that it was. It is annoying that half the new paints don't even have a reference to what colour they might be.

Desubot wrote:sadly i never got to experience the wonders of the older pots, only the hex pots where designed to dry out :/

i still call any new paints by there old names like skull white and scorched brown.

also Averland Sunset is one of my new favored paints, though slightly orange brown.

It's confusing to call the new paints by their old names because they aren't actually the same and I still own a lot of old paints, lol. The pots are definitely a major source of contempt with me and GW, I'd have far less problems buying their paints if they used proper pots. The fact that they HAD good pots that didn't dry out (have some paints that are well over a decade old still going strong), and then changed to pots that DID, and have subsequently changed pots, what, 3 or 4 times, and they STILL suck (eliminating the possibility that it was just a once off error) makes me want to punch whoever is in charge of choosing their pots.

I have a 20 year old pot of Shining Gold that still has perfect consistency.

They just don't make em like they used too.

luckily i started switching over to Valejio and transferring to dropper bottles.


though tzeench be damned there is no substitute for charadon granite.

jmswargaming wrote:
Like these?
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2570007_PaintingFacesMasterclass.pdf

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m820035a_Painting_Faces_Redux.pdf

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m400064a_Jan_08_Painting_Orks_40k.pdf

etc?

Quick Search:
https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=paint+site%3Agames-workshop.com+filetype%3Apdf

Some awesome stuff , there even were the rules for Dark future!

Every time one of these threads comes up, I feel compelled to remind people that you can still buy the Coat d'Arms paints (the old, old GW paints).

http://www.scalecreep.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=2501_2502

 Ghaz wrote:
Every time one of these threads comes up, I feel compelled to remind people that you can still buy the Coat d'Arms paints (the old, old GW paints).

http://www.scalecreep.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=2501_2502

This is about the painting articles, which Coat d'Arms does not have.

I think the point is you can still buy the paints listed in those articles from C d'A.

While this is true, where are the articles? Other than that amazing list someone posted.

I used to regularly visit the Black Gobbo articles back in the day - was a great e-zine and SOOO much better than WD... Recently rediscovered the pages on the web archive site...
http://web.archive.org/web/20080406213302/http://us.games-workshop.com/e-zine/archive.htm. Can be a little hit and miss for captured content but still a useful resource...

 Deunstephe wrote:
While this is true, where are the articles? Other than that amazing list someone posted.

Which articles? I don't know what you're getting at.

The previously posted articles refer to colours that GW no longer produce, the person above was pointing out you can still get those colours from Coat d'Arms (as an option instead of working out the new GW equivalents). I'm not sure where the confusion is, really.

Riquende wrote:

 Deunstephe wrote:
While this is true, where are the articles? Other than that amazing list someone posted.

Which articles? I don't know what you're getting at.

The previously posted articles refer to colours that GW no longer produce, the person above was pointing out you can still get those colours from Coat d'Arms (as an option instead of working out the new GW equivalents). I'm not sure where the confusion is, really.

I'm getting at the fact that although he posted that you can get Coat d'Arms paints, the information isn't really relevant to this thread since it's about the painting articles and not the paints.

I guess the confusion is that I'm referring to the original part of the thread and not these parts about paints.

Winter dyne - if shooting in an airbrush use some slow dri and johnsons klear with maybe a bit of ab cleaner. Makes Ulthuan grey work a lot smoother. Though my pot was lumpy not as bad as yours so maybe a return...

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

jmswargaming wrote:
Like these?
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2570007_PaintingFacesMasterclass.pdf

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m820035a_Painting_Faces_Redux.pdf

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m400064a_Jan_08_Painting_Orks_40k.pdf

etc?

Quick Search:
https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=paint+site%3Agames-workshop.com+filetype%3Apdf

Some awesome stuff , there even were the rules for Dark future!

SHH! Be quite, you or GW will end up deep sixing them and sending out the C and D letters.

ellis_esquire wrote:
Winter dyne - if shooting in an airbrush use some slow dri and johnsons klear with maybe a bit of ab cleaner. Makes Ulthuan grey work a lot smoother. Though my pot was lumpy not as bad as yours so maybe a return...

I'm sure he appreciates the advice, but I feel I'd better point out that he is a pro painter (and a good one too) so while we're all here to share, he tends to give more advice than he receives!

Seriously, see if you can find his decals tutorial, changed the whole way I approached them.

 Deunstephe wrote:
I'm getting at the fact that although he posted that you can get Coat d'Arms paints, the information isn't really relevant to this thread since it's about the painting articles and not the paints.

I guess the confusion is that I'm referring to the original part of the thread and not these parts about paints.

And if we only had 'relevant' posts then this thread would only be a single page long. And on top of that, how are your posts complaining about what somebody else posted 'relevant' to the to subject either?

 Ghaz wrote:

 Deunstephe wrote:
I'm getting at the fact that although he posted that you can get Coat d'Arms paints, the information isn't really relevant to this thread since it's about the painting articles and not the paints.

I guess the confusion is that I'm referring to the original part of the thread and not these parts about paints.

And if we only had 'relevant' posts then this thread would only be a single page long. And on top of that, how are your posts complaining about what somebody else posted 'relevant' to the to subject either?

I just came back to the thread and saw people talking about paints when this was about articles.

Yep, the thread has made a logical progression towards a related topic.
It happens, especially after the various guesses as to why GW has moved the articles have been explored and discussed.