Dang! I have to buy all new OFFICIAL paints now 😂

Citadel dates back to the 80’s doesn’t it?

Citadel Miniatures was the original brand name for the miniatures that started it all in the 80’s.

Wikipedia to the rescue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_Workshop#Group_divisions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Miniatures

I guess GW has been quietly reorganising and rebranding bits of its range.

i enjoyed the video they put out on social media for this. an enraged but patient store manager lol

Video is quite funny… here it is

”Cit-a-what?” 😂

As a card carrying Grognard it is sad to see the Citadel brand finally disappearing.  From a marketing perspective I wonder why it has taken so long.

I’m surprised they didn’t use this opportunity to renew the range in some way and make you throw all the old paint away and buy the new properly official stuff.  Maybe they could make everyone change paint every time they put out a new edition of 40K?  That makes about as much sense to me as changing the official rules every couple of years.

I think that’s the result of GW itself teaching generations of people to only use their ‘official’ products for everything.

It tends to generate customers with absolute zero imagination.

(heck … we see the same thing with rules where folk ‘demand’ official miniatures for ff-ing historical games … )

Miniature agnostic paints is what we really need 😀

The companies selling paints aren’t helping either.

@dags I can totally see GW forcing stockists to buy and replace their entire Citadel paint range … )