Another paint and hobby range from Games Workshop? New Texture Paints spotted (9/26)

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**Mr.Church13**

Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
I'm going to run and gun here before the Mods drag me away , but my point is this:

GW paints are good, no question, and if you have the money to get this new range or the current range, they won't let you down. I've been a big critic of GW these past years, but their paints have never let me down. Vallejo paints are also good, plus you get the handy dropper style bottle, and you get more, for less. Win win.

But you can save money by buying big bottles of acrylic for cheap from art stores or poundland in the UK.

Make your own textured paint by adding fine sand, sand which I also get free from my local beach

Grind up cork, bark, or slate for different textures if you want to experiment.

My local model airplane store sells gloss and inks for cheap.

Fight the system, make your own or buy cheaper!

Honestly that all just sounds like work.

**Inquisitor Gideon**

I'll chime in on this and say I adore the current range too

I hope it's just a minor rebranding and no major changes as I am really loving all the colours they do right now. I get consistent and extremely good results with them. The only colour I'll whine slightly about is the damn base white and how quickly it clots up.

**Do_I_Not_Like_That**

Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I'll chime in on this and say I adore the current range too I hope it's just a minor rebranding and no major changes as I am really loving all the colours they do right now. I get consistent and extremely good results with them. The only colour I'll whine slightly about is the damn base white and how quickly it clots up.

Maybe it's my eyesight, GW's white paint is not as 'white' as it used to be, if that sense.

The late 1990s, to the early 00s, was when GW last produced a white paint I liked. Ceramite white doesn't cut the mustard for me.

I've still got some old paints around, the goblin green I have from the 1990s is still in good order

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Mr.Church13 wrote:
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
I'm going to run and gun here before the Mods drag me away , but my point is this:

GW paints are good, no question, and if you have the money to get this new range or the current range, they won't let you down. I've been a big critic of GW these past years, but their paints have never let me down. Vallejo paints are also good, plus you get the handy dropper style bottle, and you get more, for less. Win win.

But you can save money by buying big bottles of acrylic for cheap from art stores or poundland in the UK.

Make your own textured paint by adding fine sand, sand which I also get free from my local beach

Grind up cork, bark, or slate for different textures if you want to experiment.

My local model airplane store sells gloss and inks for cheap.

Fight the system, make your own or buy cheaper!

Honestly that all just sounds like work.

Eh? Got a big bottle of cheap paint from an art store, pour it into an empty pot of GW paint, add some sand, and stir...

That's easy

And you get that warm fuzzy glow.

Back OT, I do like that lava effect paint that GW does, and if anybody knows a cheap way of making your own, hints/tips etc, I'd be grateful for the intel.

**Vulcan**

RazorEdge wrote:
I doubt a new Paint range.

We doubted that the replacement for 8E WFB would be a skirmish game on round bases with no points too.

**oni**

Here's what I anticipate we'll see:
1. Base, Layer, Shade and Technical paints will remain unchanged
2. Dry will be replaced with the Edge paints (available in stores finally)
3. Air will be available in stores as individual pots
4. New brushes (just because)
5. Cheaper hobby tools (quality and price)

**Mymearan**

Vulcan wrote:
RazorEdge wrote:
I doubt a new Paint range.

We doubted that the replacement for 8E WFB would be a skirmish game on round bases with no points too.

It's not a new paint range.

**eohall**

Some of the new Shattered Dominion board painting tutorials display new "scenery paint sets" which include very large bottles of some of the current range colors, as well as what appear to be new purple labels on others.

Edit - just checked the website and they've just put out existing colors with the new "scenery" paint designation

**Azazelx**

Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I'll chime in on this and say I adore the current range too I hope it's just a minor rebranding and no major changes as I am really loving all the colours they do right now. I get consistent and extremely good results with them. The only colour I'll whine slightly about is the damn base white and how quickly it clots up.

Some of the paints are awesome, some dry out way too quickly or separate and solidify. Same as it ever was. My Ceramite White is terrible, as is my Averland Sunset - which is a shame since they're both useful paints. Those paints that are consistently good, though, are really good.

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I also discovered Vallejo Premium Colour Airbrush paints recently. Essentially a small range of their Game/Model Air paints in 60ml bottles for only a fraction more money than the 18mm droppers.

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__41000__Vallejo_Premium_Color_Acrylic_Paint_Gunmetal_60ml_.html

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=260422

**Fezza213**

https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/977

Pretty sure its GW updating the racks to two racks and adding all the online only paints in store such as the air and other paints that are online only.

**scarletsquig**

I switched to army painter after the last big switch up, now that Army Painter are about to triple the number of paints in their range and add a range of technical paints, there's not a lot of reason to use the citadel ones.

**reiner**

So... I assume they're still putting airbrush paint in pots?

**Azazelx**

scarletsquig wrote:
I switched to army painter after the last big switch up, now that Army Painter are about to triple the number of paints in their range and add a range of technical paints, there's not a lot of reason to use the citadel ones.

Some of them are very good, and in very good colours. That's enough reason to be open to using them as part of your "toolkit". Then, I don't use any one range exclusively and certainly wouldn't use citadel ones exclusively.

**alphaecho**

Is the relabelling of some paints as "scenery" part of the new range?

I bought the Shattered Dominion paint set and the karak stone and Screaming Skull pots are labelled as scenery rather than 'base' or 'layer'.

**Mymearan**

alphaecho wrote:

Is the relabelling of some paints as "scenery" part of the new range?

I bought the Shattered Dominion paint set and the karak stone and Screaming Skull pots are labelled as scenery rather than 'base' or 'layer'.

They aren't relabelled, the old paints are still there. The Scenery paints are a different kind of paint (supposedly more hard-wearing). Exactly like Dawnstone, which has both a Layer and a Dry version.

**alphaecho**

Mymearan wrote:
alphaecho wrote:

Is the relabelling of some paints as "scenery" part of the new range?

I bought the Shattered Dominion paint set and the karak stone and Screaming Skull pots are labelled as scenery rather than 'base' or 'layer'.

They aren't relabelled, the old paints are still there. The Scenery paints are a different kind of paint (supposedly more hard-wearing). Exactly like Dawnstone, which has both a Layer and a Dry version.

I probably wasn't clear enough. These 'scenery' versions of the base/ layer colours are new and have arrived in August.

Personally, I appreciate the big container of mechanicus grey as all my models are city based. Even better if it is a different harder wearing formula.

**Ghaz**

From FB.

**EnTyme**

Ghaz wrote:
From FB.

I'm not entirely sure this is the hobby range referred to in the thread. This may be an unrelated release. It just doesn't match the description some of the store owners have mentioned.

**Aerethan**

Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

Maybe it's my eyesight, GW's white paint is not as 'white' as it used to be, if that sense.

The late 1990s, to the early 00s, was when GW last produced a white paint I liked. Ceramite white doesn't cut the mustard for me.

I've still got some old paints around, the goblin green I have from the 1990s is still in good order

Ceramite White is indeed an off white, leaning towards a very very light grey. It works well enough when thinned down as a base coat for a bright color going on top of it, or as a base coat for a brighter pure white. It is one of the few GW paints from their new lineup that I will spend money on(Mephiston Red being another with insanely great coverage for a bright red).

**RazorEdge**

The Citadel Base Colours are all great. Better than their old foundation Colours.

**Wulfson_40K**

EnTyme wrote:
Ghaz wrote:
From FB.

I'm not entirely sure this is the hobby range referred to in the thread. This may be an unrelated release. It just doesn't match the description some of the store owners have mentioned.

The change to the hobby range already happened. GW reworked the stockist program and made what appear to be a majority of the "direct only" hobby items available to stores (much to my pleasure, the edge paints are now available to us).

The "Best Seller Extra Paint 300" mentioned earlier in the thread is just a label used to see from which modules (from the stockist program) an item belong to. New items like the scenery paints (Blighted Tundra, Cursed Wastes and co) are not part of it and not yet associated with any module AFAIK. The brand new adhesive bands used to present the paints on the racks do not contain any unknown names unless I'm blind so I wouldn't hold my breath for additional paints in August.

**SeanDrake**

The new range is the Tints which are the base colours from which all GW paints are made.
There the undiluted pigments intended to be added to the existing paints to get the colour you want. The orange not red enough add a few drops of the red tint. Basicly they can be used to change the hue or even added to a base colour to make your own colour.

There are also going to be some new sets ready for Christmas including a new full set of everything and a hobby station in living 42 paints.

Alsxo not sure you can make it out on the fb page but the tints are named after the primarchs I believe.

**Ghaz**

From the Codex Genestealer Cult thread:

Fans of the Citadel Texture Paints range will be pleased to know that out product design boffins have made them even better, replacing the grit in them with plastic microbeads that create a more even texture on your bases. You can even apply them using a brush now! But what if you want a heavily textured base? Well, the texture paints now come in thick and thin varieties - both in larger 24ml pots - so you can really pile up the dirt. We'll be taking a closer look at these great new paints next month.

**Azreal13**

That's our GW, just as the pressure is growing in manufacturers to stop using plastic micro beads because of their environmental impact, GW start using them!

**JonWebb**

Interesting that as the UK aims to phase microbeads out of hygiene products due to environmental damage, GW would bring them in to a product.

Obviously less will be washed away/enter the environment, but still

Not bashing them, just an unfortunate timing for a UK company.

**Ghaz**

GW must have got a good deal on some plastic microbeads from a manufacturer who has to phase them out of their hygiene products

Anyway, the amount of microbeads entering the environment through GW's paints in comparison to even a single hygiene product would be very small IMHO.

**JonWebb**

Ghaz wrote:
GW must have got a good deal on some plastic microbeads from a manufacturer who has to phase them out of their hygiene products Anyway, the amount of microbeads entering the environment through GW's paints in comparison to even a single hygiene product would be very small IMHO.

Totally agree, just an unfortunate timing.

I promise not to wash my hair with GW paint, will that do?

I wasn't thrilled by the first iteration of the texture paint, but its good to see them evaluating and improving product.

**Chikout**

This is a bit ridiculous. The whole problem is that cosmetics go straight down the drain. There are plenty of paints that are toxic. If GW did get a deal you could argue the it is good for the environment as those microbeads will be going on people's bases rather than in the trash.

**Dr_Keenbean**

I popped in to my FLGS the weekend before last and they had a new Citadel paint rack that had all the paints that were removed from stores but kept on the web store as well as all air and edge paints and extra products and also all the new paints (gloss washes, metallics, etc) that have been added.

It was literally the entire Citadel paint "system" in one (double-wide) rack.

Nothing about the tints we saw a blurry image of though. I'm still fairly curious about those.

**Ghaz**

JonWebb wrote:
Ghaz wrote:
GW must have got a good deal on some plastic microbeads from a manufacturer who has to phase them out of their hygiene products Anyway, the amount of microbeads entering the environment through GW's paints in comparison to even a single hygiene product would be very small IMHO.

Totally agree, just an unfortunate timing.

I promise not to wash my hair with GW paint, will that do?

I wasn't thrilled by the first iteration of the texture paint, but its good to see them evaluating and improving product.

GW was already using microbeads in at least one product though (Typhus Corrosion).

**Brother SRM**

Yeah, since they're not being used for hygiene products and washing away into the water system, the major drawbacks of microbeads are pretty much moot. Nice they're coming out in bigger bottles though, good for folks who want to base a whole army.