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Hi, Dakkaians,

Daft question I realise, but this stems from something I was 'told', so here goes.

I was told that the current line of Citidel paints are chemically designed to work together; highlights work with layers which work with basecoats, etc. Now, if that's true, can I still use a current highlight and/or layer paint with say, an old-style basecoat paint, the style that came in the clear bottles with the black tops. I mean, it's just paint, right, I should still be able to get the layering and highlighting effects regardless of what type of paint I use, no?

Any help or understanding of this 'chemical' reaction will be a big help.

Thanks.

If you were told that by a gw staffer i can pretty much suggest he was telling porky pies. I once heard a staffer tell a woman non-gw paints would melt her sons models.

The paints are just acrylics - use them exactly as you would any other acrylic paint range, indeed, use them with any other paint range.

 Tower75 wrote:
Hi, Dakkaians,

Daft question I realise, but this stems from something I was 'told', so here goes.

I was told that the current line of Citidel paints are chemically designed to work together; highlights work with layers which work with basecoats, etc. Now, if that's true, can I still use a current highlight and/or layer paint with say, an old-style basecoat paint, the style that came in the clear bottles with the black tops. I mean, it's just paint, right, I should still be able to get the layering and highlighting effects regardless of what type of paint I use, no?

Any help or understanding of this 'chemical' reaction will be a big help.

Thanks.

All water-based acrylic paints are mixable, no matter the manufacturer. You can mix GW with P3, Reaper, Vallejo, craft acrylics, etc... As far as GW paints being "chemically designed" to work together, I will go ahead and call shenanigans on that. Also, just because they labeled them as "layers" or "base" paints doesn't mean you have to use that way. If you want a layer paint to be the base color, do it. That whole naming convention (yes, I understand the base colors are thicker, but it doesn't matter) is just to help follow the "GW formula" and buy more paints to paint the way they tell you to, which they then charge you for of course.

Cool. Makes scense. Thank you, guys.