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... From Tabletop Gaming News:

In addition to the October releases announced today, Privateer Press has also announced a line of paints: Formula P3 Colors.

From their release:
Formula P3 has been in development for many years to create the finest miniature paints on the market today. These paints strike the perfect balance of smoothness and opacity that painters around the world have been crying out for. They not only mix perfectly with each other, but also with other acrylic paints and artists inks to give an endless range of color choices.

The line will originally see six different paint sets each with an MSRP of $17.99 US:

Formula P3 Cryx Colors - The Formula P3 Cryx faction set gives you the key colors for painting your Cryx miniatures that you just won?t be able to find anywhere else. The basecoat and highlight shades of Cryx Bane are the perfect combination for Cryxian armor and clothing. Blighted Gold is the ideal antique metallic color for picking out details, while Necrotite green provides a ghastly glow for Thralls and Warjacks alike. 1 Blighted Gold, 1 Cryx Bane Base, 1 Cryx Bane Highlight, 1 ?Jack Bone, 1 Necrotite Green, & 1 Thrall Flesh

Formula P3 Cygnar Colors - The Formula P3 Cygnar faction set gives you the key colors for painting your Cygnar miniatures that you just won?t be able to find anywhere else. The basecoat and highlight shades of Cygnar Blue are the perfect combination for armor and clothing, and these can also be intermixed to give you endless variations in tone that will satisfy any level of painter. 1 Arcane Blue, 1 Cygnar Blue Base, 1 Cygnar Blue Highlight, 1 Cygnus Yellow, 1 Ironhull Grey, & 1 Rucksack Brown

Formula P3 Iron Kingdoms Colors - The Iron Kingdoms set gives a perfect introduction to Formula P3. With metallic paints like Pig Iron and Rhulic gold, along with carefully chosen shades like Midlund Flesh and Bootstrap Leather, this set provides you with the colors you just can?t do without. 1 Bootstrap Leather, 1 Midlund Flesh, 1 Morrow White, 1 Pig Iron, 1 Rhulic Gold, & 1 Thamar Black

Formula P3 Khador Colors - The Formula P3 Khador faction set gives you the key colors for painting your Khador miniatures that you just won?t be able to find anywhere else. The basecoat and highlight shades of Kdador Red are the perfect combination for armor and clothing. They offer bright color and amazing coverage, even over black undercoat, which is nearly impossible to find in other ranges. 1 Battlefield Brown, 1 Greatcoat Grey, 1 Khador Red Base, 1 Khador Red Highlight, 1 Khardic Flesh, & 1 Thornwood Green

Formula P3 Mercenary Colors - The Formula P3 Mercenary faction set gives you the key colors for painting your Mercenary miniatures. This selection of military colors is ideal for troops, Warjacks and characters alike. They can be intermixed to give endless shade and highlight tones an further combined with any paints from the P3 range to give you endless possibilities when painting your Warmachine Mercenary miniatures. 1 Bastion Grey, 1 Battle Dress Green, 1 Exile Blue, 1 Gun Corps Brown, 1 Hammerfall Khaki, & 1 Traitor Green

Formula P3 Protectorate of Menoth Colors - The Formula P3 Protectorate faction set gives you the key colors for painting your Protectorate miniatures that you just won?t be able to find anywhere else. The basecoat and highlight shades of Menoth White are the perfect combination for armor and robes. While Sanguine Base and Highlight are specially designed to give the notoriously hard to mix deep red color, that is common in Protectorate miniatures. 1 Bloodstone, 1 Heartfire, 1 Menoth White Base, 1 Menoth White Highlight, 1 Sanguine Base, & 1 Sanguine Highlight.

Yeah Im all about fair competition and all market share blablabla...but why is PP focusing on following others. Why not stick to what they do best, which is making games. Seems like they might want to actually release models for their games on a somewhat more aggressive schedule and maintain production of released figs.

Seems like a case of keeping up with the Johnsons rather than true insperation. I dont recall anyone complaining about not having enough paint options...I do recall people asking about when solos and new figs will finally be sold.

I hope these are soooo good I'll ger rid of my Valejo paints.(NOPE) But PP is probably counting on No Quarter hype and Noobs who pick up their starter box+paints in one swoop. Whats next PP glue, flock, water effects, JUNGLE PLANTS. Come on PP I know your better than this. Your bases are beveled for cying out loud.

I recall warzone doing this for their games. Faction paint sets that is. As to the quality of the paints, I cannot say.

I know privateer is doing well, but that scheme didnt help warzone or target games at all.

Big Fan of Privateer as well, but I think this is pretty unnecessary. Not very likely that I will throw out all the paints I have, or buy similiar colors just because its "Paint by Privateer". I also find it interesting that instead of letting GF9 do the tokens for Hordes like they did for Warmachine, Privateer will be doing them In-House. Good business decision maybe, but also leans toward becoming what they have railed against.

more of what is making me disinterested in PP products now. I was a HUGE supporter of everything PP early in the year, but the announcement of the $100 cav unit, the pushing away of GF9 which helped them immensely, and now putting out an unneeded paint set... I'm in agreement, give us models, make your quality control a WHOLE LOT better and then think aobut other things. It's called walking before you run

I shall buy them, and post a review.




If all else fails I can throw them at the wall and call it modern art.

Personally I'm looking forward to these. I've got the feeling that the colors won't be your standard "Artists' Pigments With Fantasy Names" or GW copies, but rather tones that are evocative of the whole steampunk aesthetic.

I'm with elusive. If they have some pastel or cel-shaded-look colors that Vallejo doesn't have, I'm all for it. I love the cel-shaded with NMM look.

The Formula P3 paints are being developed by Mike McVey in cooperation with the manufacturer. McVey also developed GW's line of paints.

What's this about the pushing a way of GF9?

Comments from Mike McVey on the new Formula P3 paints.

If they're like the GW paints, no thanks I'll stick with Vallejo.

Posted By Jeff on 07/12/2006 10:25 AM
What's this about the pushing a way of GF9?

Put simply, they didn't. Per Matt Wilson, Gale Force 9 did not have the production capacity for their token design, so they had to go to another company. So basically GF9 had the option to make them but couldn't, and they went somewhere else. That's what I'm reading into Wilson's comments. PP will continue to utilize GF9 for Warmachine tokens + templates, and I think they maybe even mentioned another project in the works?

Posted By Ghaz on 07/12/2006 12:24 PM
Comments from Mike McVey on the new Formula P3 paints.

 

well did we think he was going to down play his paints? i mean come on.. GW says they have the best paints, Vellajo says the same and so does every other tom, dick and harry that has a hand in the process.

 

i am sure he is going to like his style of paints, and it remains to be seen how these turn out, but dammit, when a painter starts sculpting (piss poor models in my opinion, but i digress) and then claims to be a painter only and  etc etc etc. it seems to me the boy has too many horses to ride and not sure where to park his *donkey*at the end of the day. 

 

in otherwords, it is nice he did this, but his word is only that.. i wouldn't expect to hear negative comments.. and, funny thing is, the majority of people cry for a dropper and he still wants it his way.. oh well, so much for listening to what people want..  lol

You can support your product without the attitude that they've presented. It sounds like they think anyone that uses a dropper bottle to mix paints has commited a capital crime.

My username over there is "courageandhonor", I'm one of the ones arguing with them about how they're being jackasses about the whole thing. I totally agree--they're basically acting SNOBBY about the whole thing.

They're also being very snobby about the Hordes Tokens. They release some initial information, that only says "plastic tokens and cardboard chits", and naturally, people were like, "Cardboard chits, BLECH". So then they post, 3 forum pages later, "you guys are morons, here's what we're doing with the cardboard chits."

Um, yeah. And what exact response did you expect? If you don't want people to flip out about your inane decisions and vague postings, then POST MORE DETAILS. Don't just tell us "Cardboard Chits", tell us how you're using them, so we don't get all pissed off.

Anyway--they've got this "Holier than Thou" attitude about both topics. They seem to have this pervasive "Why don't you just TRUST us for once" attitude. Whatever--why the hell should I trust you? I don't even know you. Just make better marketing decisions, then I don't have to trust you.

Well, these P3 Paints BETTER be extremely HIGH QUALITY. Otherwise whats the point.