Reply To: Say goodbye to Citadel Colour paints and hello to Warhammer Colour paints

[Wolfie65 1281xp 1]

I switched to watercolors many years ago, they are somewhat tricky at first because they do not set until you actually seal the miniature, so you are basically always painting  on a ‘wet palette’, but I really like their working characteristics, much better than acrylics. They never dry out like acrylics – Citadel pots being especially prone to this – I have watercolors that are 30 or more years old and still work just fine. They do require a brilliantly white undercoat – which is fine by me, never liked the dull, muted look of minis painted over black primer anyway – and they pretty much force you to paint from light to dark, because painting a lighter watercolor over a darker one is best avoided in most cases. They also force you to be very precise so as not to create a muddy mess – unless that’s the look you’re going for – and train you to have steady hand because you will have to do a LOT of very fine darklining.

Larger models require special care because you don’t want to touch the miniature while painting if at all possible so as not to smudge your work and to that end, you have to rig up some way of holding figures such as Dragons, Steam Tanks and other large models.

In cases where watercolors are not practical, Golden Liquids are my favorite acrylics, they come in dropper bottles and may have the highest pigment concentration of any acrylic paints I’ve ever used. For terrain pieces and other items that can handle grainier paint without looking bad, I use cheap brands like Americana or FolkArt.

Citadel paints are ok, but have always been WAY overpriced, dry up much too fast and aren’t even available locally anymore since the last game store worth going to closed a couple of years ago. So they can rename them anything they want, doesn’t affect me one bit. I think I have a dried-up little pot of Bad Moon Yellow from back in the day that I’m keeping as a souvenir of the days before GW became the Evil Empire…….