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Nighthaunt Gloom and Hexwraith Flame came out with the initial Nighthaunt release.

Ionrach Skin and Deepkin Flesh came out with the initial Idoneth Deepkin release.

Runelord Brass, Canoptek Alloy, Tesseract Glow and Cryptek Armourshade Gloss came out with the Indomitus release.

Orruk Flesh, Hobgrot Hide and Thondia Brown came out with the Dominion release.

I'm probably missing a release or two, but it does seem like they're getting the new paints designed for a specific army out when that army is released.

I wish there was still Runelord Brass spray...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I wish there was still Runelord Brass spray...

They got rid of that already?

Edit: Checked and the UK still has it. £20 a can though?!

No such luck in Oz.

[EDIT]: Could be an oversight. The Orky Boss Bunker vanished from the website completely until I pointed it out.

Sounds like it might be worth pointing out the missing spray, then, HBMC.

I wish they either did Iron Warriors metallic in a can or another, darker silver metallic,

Makes painting terrain and Knight chasis much quicker with a dark metallic, then highlight rather than leadbelcher, nuln oil and highlight.

 Dysartes wrote:
Sounds like it might be worth pointing out the missing spray, then, HBMC.

Yeah I ended up E-mailing their customer service address.

I mentioned this to Kyoto the other day, but GW is so terrible at so many things that simply by law of averages they have to be good at something, and in my experience that's always been customer service. That lot always seems to get it right, and goes above and beyond to fix mistakes.

 Kinetochore wrote:
I wish they either did Iron Warriors metallic in a can or another, darker silver metallic,

Makes painting terrain and Knight chasis much quicker with a dark metallic, then highlight rather than leadbelcher, nuln oil and highlight.

I mean, they want to sell you nuln oil ^^

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I wish there was still Runelord Brass spray...

Checked US site, still available. feth, you almost gave a heart attack.

 Overread wrote:


I'm guessing some of that lasted, certainly I recall that the Forgeworld and other teams reported that they had no idea Age of Sigmar was happening pretty much up until it was released.

Fw team got told 40k 8e the day it was revealed to wide public and that they were supposed to do index for it.

 oni wrote:
Checked US site, still available. feth, you almost gave a heart attack.

Yeah, sorry about that. Seems it's an Oz-only thing. Or a mistake. Hopefully I'll find out next week.

 Kinetochore wrote:
I wish they either did Iron Warriors metallic in a can or another, darker silver metallic,

Makes painting terrain and Knight chasis much quicker with a dark metallic, then highlight rather than leadbelcher, nuln oil and highlight.

Army Painter 'platemail?'

I use that for metallic base. Really all their sprays are better (and cheaper)

Voss wrote:

 Kinetochore wrote:
I wish they either did Iron Warriors metallic in a can or another, darker silver metallic,

Makes painting terrain and Knight chasis much quicker with a dark metallic, then highlight rather than leadbelcher, nuln oil and highlight.

Army Painter 'platemail?'

I use that for metallic base. Really all their sprays are better (and cheaper)

From what I've seen of the Plate Mail spray, it's not as dark as Iron Warriors

 Ghaz wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Kinetochore wrote:
I wish they either did Iron Warriors metallic in a can or another, darker silver metallic,

Makes painting terrain and Knight chasis much quicker with a dark metallic, then highlight rather than leadbelcher, nuln oil and highlight.

Army Painter 'platemail?'

I use that for metallic base. Really all their sprays are better (and cheaper)

From what I've seen of the Plate Mail spray, it's not as dark as Iron Warriors

Army Painter's Gun Metal spray and paint? A darker version of Platemail.

I'm not fond of how AP sprays seem to pack up with 1/3rd of the paint left in the spray, but they always match the dropper paint. GW sprays are nothing like the paint pot colours.

There's also Vallejo's gunmetal spray.

 Azazelx wrote:
There's also Vallejo's gunmetal spray.

Vallejo Gunmetal is almost the same as Leadblecher though - unless light shines directly on them, you can't tell the colors apart.

vjellejo also does a metallic black (it's an air paint but can be brushed on easily eneugh) proably too dark but Im using on for trim on my heresy era Imp fists

So, in my local GW today I talked to the local manager who had got to play with the paints at the employee meet up, and he says the new contrasts have a much stronger pigment and are over all "better then the first wave" he showed me a primaris Marine he'd done with one of the new greens and yeah it looked pretty nice

Less blotchy, more "speedpaint" smooth (but without the reactivation) would be luvverly.

'Top Tips for Using the Seven All-new Shade Paints' on Warhammer Community. Some nice suggestions for uses of the new Shades (e.g., they suggest Targor Rageshade is good for light leathers, tanned skin tones and over Rakarth Flesh for Chaos Space Marines).

Voss wrote:
Army Painter 'platemail?'

I use that for metallic base. Really all their sprays are better (and cheaper)

I am not a huge fan of AP sprays and I only use them when I have to. The problem I find is that they are too glossy which means other paints don't adhere well over the top of them. When I paint details in citadel paints over a basecoat of AP, I find the paint rubs off after drying, even from gentle handling. I have to be incredible careful how I handle the models until I can get them sealed with matt lacquer.

I'm looking forward to using Soulblight Grey for my High Elves. Might finally finish them off with an easier white shade.

So when do they announce the trade in scheme for all the unused and clearly inferior paint we already bought?

Interestingly Duncan mentioned on his site that they'd noticed Nuln Oil having a slightly more gloss finish in recent bottles - this was before the announcement. I wonder if some of the reformulated shades are already in circulation?

deano2099 wrote:
Interestingly Duncan mentioned on his site that they'd noticed Nuln Oil having a slightly more gloss finish in recent bottles - this was before the announcement. I wonder if some of the reformulated shades are already in circulation?

All of the new Shades we're seeing are in the 18ml Contrast pots. It wouldn't surprise me that the reformulated Shades such as Nuln Oil will be moving to 18ml pots as well.

Hopefully someone comes up with a recipe for the new shade paints based on Les's wash recipe (as posted on Dakka!).

My last couple of Aggrax bottles have been glossy, largely rectified by strongly shaking the bottle then mixing in a little medium. But if it is a sign of the new formulation I am not a fan.

 Ghaz wrote:

deano2099 wrote:
Interestingly Duncan mentioned on his site that they'd noticed Nuln Oil having a slightly more gloss finish in recent bottles - this was before the announcement. I wonder if some of the reformulated shades are already in circulation?

All of the new Shades we're seeing are in the 18ml Contrast pots. It wouldn't surprise me that the reformulated Shades such as Nuln Oil will be moving to 18ml pots as well.

Let me guess: they cost the same (or more).

I expect they'll cost the same for less when they're released and will get more expensive as part of a, probably the next, annual price increase in February.

Looks like a few more paints have been added to the Last Chance to Buy category. Currently there are 31 Air paints, 7 Dry paints, 4 Shades and 1 Spray in the category.