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 kronk wrote:
Is there a list of the colors?

These 34 contrast paints:


And they'll come with the Wraithbone and Grey Seer base paint and aerosol primers, the new contrast medium and the Stormshield matte varnish.

And as noted in the FW news thread it looks like the old Forgeworld colours are being released as GW Air paints in the same week.

Luckily, GW paints aren't expensive. Oh, wait

I hope that they'll have a display with every Contrast colour slathered over some models like the above in every store. I'll limit myself to ten or so to try out, so I want to see the hues in the flesh first.

 kronk wrote:
Is there a list of the colors?

Will GW Pre-order ARRIVE on release day, or SHIP on release day?

 Flagg07 wrote:
Will GW Pre-order ARRIVE on release day, or SHIP on release day?

Depends on where you order to. If you pre-order to Warhammer store or independent retailer, they will arrive on the release day. If you order to home address, they will ship on the release day.

 Binabik15 wrote:

And Contrast makes me ponder the silver Space Marines feom the studio painter that in WD a year or so ago. The armour was just metal basecoat and Nuln Oil+Nuln Oil wash with the focus parts like faces, lenses, fancy weapons painted to a high standard, making the overall model really attractive and sort of tricking the viewer to think that everything is super elaborate.

Do you recall which WD that might have been?

 Flagg07 wrote:
Will GW Pre-order ARRIVE on release day, or SHIP on release day?

If it’s like looncurse, then FLGS won’t get them.

Found these (click on them to expand)

 Azazelx wrote:

 Binabik15 wrote:

And Contrast makes me ponder the silver Space Marines feom the studio painter that in WD a year or so ago. The armour was just metal basecoat and Nuln Oil+Nuln Oil wash with the focus parts like faces, lenses, fancy weapons painted to a high standard, making the overall model really attractive and sort of tricking the viewer to think that everything is super elaborate.

Do you recall which WD that might have been?

I don't, but I can flip through my collection tomorrow.

The seem to have misspelled Kantor Blue as Leviadon Blue Unless, of course, it comes out much lighter.

 Redemption wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Is there a list of the colors?

These 34 contrast paints:

Spoiler:

And they'll come with the Wraithbone and Grey Seer base paint and aerosol primers, the new contrast medium and the Stormshield matte varnish.

And as noted in the FW news thread it looks like the old Forgeworld colours are being released as GW Air paints in the same week.

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Great find! Thank you for sharing

 CodeKantorBlue wrote:
The seem to have misspelled Kantor Blue as Leviadon Blue Unless, of course, it comes out much lighter.

There is already a Kantor Blue. They had to come up with something different. Crimson Fists Blue would likely have caused confusion. Why they didn't do Cortez Blue is beyond me though.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:

 CodeKantorBlue wrote:
The seem to have misspelled Kantor Blue as Leviadon Blue Unless, of course, it comes out much lighter.

There is already a Kantor Blue. They had to come up with something different. Crimson Fists Blue would likely have caused confusion. Why they didn't do Cortez Blue is beyond me though.

Isn't one of the Idoneth creatures called a Leviadon?

 Theophony wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:

 CodeKantorBlue wrote:
The seem to have misspelled Kantor Blue as Leviadon Blue Unless, of course, it comes out much lighter.

There is already a Kantor Blue. They had to come up with something different. Crimson Fists Blue would likely have caused confusion. Why they didn't do Cortez Blue is beyond me though.

Isn't one of the Idoneth creatures called a Leviadon?

There is. And the official model is painted orange/red. Hence why the color name makes absolutely no sense. They might as well have Blood Angels Green at that point.

There's more than one Leviadon model featured in the battletome (and the online store). Not all of them are orange.

 Ghaz wrote:
There's more than one Leviadon model featured in the battletome (and the online store). Not all of them are orange.

Spoiler:

Yup, that one is much bluer than the orange one...

 insaniak wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:
There's more than one Leviadon model featured in the battletome (and the online store). Not all of them are orange.

Spoiler:

Yup, that one is much bluer than the orange one...

The point is, not all Leviadons are orange. They can come in different colors, even blue. Should we complain about the Chaos Black spray because World Eaters are red and Thousand Sons are blue?

That's not the point, though. The point is that they've named a colour after a creature that they haven't shown to actually be that colour. They have, by contrast, shown black chaos marines.

If you're going to use one of your fictional creations as a colour descriptor, you need to at least use something that actually has a connection to that colour, otherwise the name is ultimately no better than 'XV-88'... it's a meaningless name.

Well, to be fair, it's not quite as bad as XV-88, since it does at least tell us that it's some sort of blue. But since we've never seen a blue Leviadon, we have no way to know what sort of blue 'Leviadon Blue' might be.


Also to be fair, it's not really any worse than the original Space Wolves Grey, which was blue, or Blood Angels Red, which was orange...

 insaniak wrote:
That's not the point, though. The point is that they've named a colour after a creature that they haven't shown to actually be that colour.

Should they name it 'Name to be decided at a later date' Blue since it's a new paint and hasn't been used on a model yet?

That would certainly have been as useful as naming it after something that isn't blue.

 insaniak wrote:

That would certainly have been as useful as naming it after something that isn't blue.

Well it is from the company that meant to call chaos black- Dark angels black and meant dark angels green to be chaos green .

My issue isn't that they named it something other than the most iconic dark blue things in the entire model line. It is that they named it after something that, as of right now, has not been depicted in an official capacity as dark blue. They could have called it Idoneth Blue, especially since several of the models have Kantor Blue in their recommended paints on the website.

Just gonna post some blue leviadons

 cole1114 wrote:
Just gonna post some blue leviadons

Thanks?

Nobody's saying they can't be painted blue.

Hmm. Do people remember that the White Dwarf is switching schedules to be in the middle of the month? I bet that the first issue will feature a lot of Contrast stuff since it releases right after Contrast releases.

 cole1114 wrote:
Just gonna post some blue leviadons

Spoiler:

more of a green but I like it so I'm adding it

It's a good thing that isn't remotely what my point is, but whatever...

 insaniak wrote:
That would certainly have been as useful as naming it after something that isn't blue.

Most paints aimed at fantasy and/or science fiction games have names that aren't really helpful. Astronomicon Grey? Vomit Brown? Not really helpful. Hearthfire? Bloodtracker Brown? Not really helpful. Monster Brown? Hydra Turquoise? Not really helpful. The names are chosen because they sound good and only give you a very vague idea of what color it might be (usually)

Real life colors have names which aren't any better, especially in the modern times. Most people would have a problem describing what Venetian Red or Hunter Green looks like or even being able to tell you that Glacous is.the name of a color.

 Ghaz wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
That would certainly have been as useful as naming it after something that isn't blue.

Most paints aimed at fantasy and/or science fiction games have names that aren't really helpful. Astronomicon Grey? Vomit Brown? Not really helpful. Hearthfire? Bloodtracker Brown? Not really helpful. Monster Brown? Hydra Turquoise? Not really helpful. The names are chosen because they sound good and only give you a very vague idea of what color it might be (usually)

Real life colors have names which aren't any better, especially in the modern times. Most people would have a problem describing what Venetian Red or Hunter Green looks like or even being able to tell you that Glacous is.the name of a color.

If you honestly can't see a difference between '[thing that is blue] Blue' and '[thing that isn't blue] Blue', then I really don't know what to tell you.

 Ghaz wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
That's not the point, though. The point is that they've named a colour after a creature that they haven't shown to actually be that colour.

Should they name it 'Name to be decided at a later date' Blue since it's a new paint and hasn't been used on a model yet?

Or they could name it you know by unit traditionally blue of that shade. Weird thought that.

"Blood Angels Green".

LOL!

Yeah, I get insaniak and casvalremdeikun's points. Leviadons have not been shown as blue in the examples presented in GW's own studio army, so it's odd to name a shade of blue after them. It does make about as much sense as a colour named Blood Angels Green or Ultramarines Brown.