Monday 26 March 2012

New GW Citadel Paints REVIEW (Based On In-Store Trial)

Yesterday I popped into my local GW to take a look at the new paints. Here are a few thoughts based on the trial pots they had and the chat with the chaps working there.

The pots - will all have the prop-open system like the washes (no more tooth picks). New sealing system will apparently stop too much leakage and drying (we'll see...)

Base - these seem as good as the foundation range. The white in particular was quite impressive in covering a black undercoated space marine. Will be useful for quick jobs and beginners, hard to judge mid-to-higher expertise level uses at present.

Layer - seem to be ok, but only time will tell with these. Some nice looking new colours.

Shade - as good as current washes and the new colours look reasonable.

Glaze - interesting consistency on these, very thin but the pigment is tight so they could be a revelation to people not already using transparent mediums.

Dry - cottage cheese for painters.

Texture - grainy paint: nothing amazing, but there might be some interesting uses in creating rough skin on large monsters. Weathering mediums and powders might do this better though.

Technical - none of these were in the trial pots.

Supply - apparently each UK store will be getting 12 of each colour in the initial batch so pre-ordering is advised.

Hope that's useful folks!

4 comments:

  1. I am looking forward to a foundation style white I think that will be a boon to many players.

    Thanks for the thoughts

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    1. A pleasure - you're welcome.

      I have some spare time tomorrow so I may actually take the time to paint a whole figure in-store, see how it works out.

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  2. The Textures would be for doing bases. Instead of using sand then painting the sand, you use the textures to paint the base directly.

    -Warren

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    1. Yes, that's what they're being marketed as. I'm interested to see if they have any other worthwhile applications.

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