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Ex FW paints are coming back, under GW AIR range!

Source? Anyway good news if true. Might mean I actually get more sons of horus vehicles one day.

This is the evidence I’ve seen.

Groovy. But 6 pack? Are we supposed to buy 6 bottles of same paint at once?

tneva82 wrote:
Groovy. But 6 pack? Are we supposed to buy 6 bottles of same paint at once?

That's the order sheet for retailers, who I guess have to order paint in bulk.

Indeed. Boxes of six for individual retail.

Woo, it’s paint Christmas! Or Duncanmas for short.

Duncan must be having a mental breakdown trying to keep all this painting stuff straight. Having to alternate between paint names and various GW and FW brandings for similar things along with rapidly switching between "don't forget to thin your paints" and "slather the (contrast) paint on" must be stressful.

The clear colours are under the air range but there also bring the others as base and/or layer as well.

I honestly find that more exciting than the contrast paints.

This is actually gak. I had to sell my Salamander army off due to them discontinuing these paints last year. I had no way to keep the same paint color consistency.

 Midnightdeathblade wrote:
This is actually gak. I had to sell my Salamander army off due to them discontinuing these paints last year. I had no way to keep the same paint color consistency.

Seriously? Even two bottle from the same range won't be completely consistent. I can understand not wanting to mix paints, but if you already have a painted army........

Selling an army because you can't get a paint seems a bit drastic. This is why I always advise learning to mix paint.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Selling an army because you can't get a paint seems a bit drastic. This is why I always advise learning to mix paint.

Unfortunately, due to inconsistencies in paint composition and materials, mix a perfect duplicate of a given paint is neigh impossible. It's the reason that people use empty paint bottles, becasue producing exactly the same mix and exactly the same shade a second time can be a pain.

also, it's hard to make exact duplicates of greens sold by GW if you don't know what pigments went into them in the first place.

 BaronIveagh wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Selling an army because you can't get a paint seems a bit drastic. This is why I always advise learning to mix paint.

Unfortunately, due to inconsistencies in paint composition and materials, mix a perfect duplicate of a given paint is neigh impossible. It's the reason that people use empty paint bottles, becasue producing exactly the same mix and exactly the same shade a second time can be a pain.

also, it's hard to make exact duplicates of greens sold by GW if you don't know what pigments went into them in the first place.

Or if GW discontinues the colors you use to mix another color .

 Theophony wrote:

Or if GW discontinues the colors you use to mix another color .

One reason not to use citadel paints. Have never had that problem with Vallejo.

 BaronIveagh wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

Or if GW discontinues the colors you use to mix another color .

One reason not to use citadel paints. Have never had that problem with Vallejo.

Yes, because not everyone (multiple shops) around me continuous carry Vallejo. All carry GW and most carry Army painter, even then I run into times where they are out of stock as most people around me buy GW. I started with Ral Partha paints decades ago, but consistently return to GW because I’m used to their flow, and I know I’m I never the minority as I don’t like dropper bottles . Yes I paint straight from the pot.

Anyone remember how extensive the FW paint range was?

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Selling an army because you can't get a paint seems a bit drastic.

No kidding. I especially like the use of the word 'had to' in that post. Bizarre.

I guess I'm just not that picky. I don't paint armies so maybe it's not my place to say, but I don't mind a slight deviation in unit paint hues. Very much like you'd have in real life. And I think it's always possible to get a colour close enough that you wouldn't be able to notice the difference, so long as you know which colours to mix.

Well it would be nice to have SoH green again, I didn't get the opportunity to get it the first time around.

Ok so how you would mix sons of horus and lupercal green?

By the way, quite a few of them paints will be available in AIR, BASE and LAYER formats. AIR comes in 24 mil, LAYER AND BASE in respective 12 mil bottles :>

I made my own sons of horus green for my loken by mixing vallejo uniform green with kantor blue, then adjusted the hues with gauss blaster green or the blue edge.. Can't remember then name.

 Theophony wrote:

Yes, because not everyone (multiple shops) around me continuous carry Vallejo.

No ta one around me does, and Citadel is $15 a pot in the single shop that carries that. Amazon is my friend.

Amazon adds nice shipping prices. Like doubling the price

Man I'm still salty about the White Scars... they are such a unique Legion with a super distinct aesthetic. I was looking so much forward to them being one of my fav legions since "Scars" and... they look more vanilla then the fracking Ultramarines. A Tartaros pattern Termi unit which just has Glaives and nothing more and the golden Keshig who are just normal bikers with lances... wow how amazing. They couldn't even give them the Bullock patern from the books? even their special units are extremly boring as a concept almost all legions have super unique fun unit concepts I mean the BAngles have a freaking Dread with a Jumppack what do we get boring vanilla Terminators, some reskinned bikes and a cool speeder wooow... whats next? The Khan is just a normal Praetor model with a sword or smth Sorry for ranting but I'm still extremly salty about this. The scars should've been on the same level of uniqueness like the Sons and the Wolves (ouch) but they are just super boring.

Yeah... What a missed opportunity. I mean, I get that they need to fit the generic line, but they could have had way more distinct ornamentation than mini-shields, tassels, greenstuff texturing, and a few do-dads and weapons.

alexkon3 wrote:
Man I'm still salty about the White Scars... they are such a unique Legion with a super distinct aesthetic. I was looking so much forward to them being one of my fav legions since "Scars" and... they look more vanilla then the fracking Ultramarines. Sorry for ranting but I'm still extremly salty about this. The scars should've been on the same level of uniqueness like the Sons and the Wolves (ouch) but they are just super boring.

From a rules perspective they have AP2 close combat weapons at initiative, on CC terminators, a CC jetbike squad with AP2 at I again, An infiltrating unit with all LCs, and a unique speeder weapon loadout. My Varagyr would kill for AP2 at initiative stuff and free FNP. From a model perspective they are far better sculpts then the SW got, excepting perhaps the Deathsworn.

Acastus Knight Asterius is available to pre-order from Friday






30k Rules

What a beast. Mercifully, the Conversion Beam Cannons don't have firing calibration rules.

Sitting here as an UM player, which hasn’t even got its jump or terminator unit yet, nor all it’s characters, listening to other people complain about their legion options...

(Got Guilliman and the Invictarii and that’s it - no unique Contemptor, no Leviathan(fair though, wasn’t out yet) and our alternative head options got taken away)