Reply To: Thoughts on Citadel Contrast Paint

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You probably want an additional paint for edge highlighting/dry brushing and a flesh colour (assuming ‘reikland flesh’ is for skin).

Contrast would still appear to be cheaper (traditional : 9 colours + primer vs contrast 7 + primer).
In theory you’d also want the specialist thinning/mixing medium, but water appears to be good enough.

However we don’t really know if the paint allows for a similar amount of miniatures to be painted.
That would be an interesting test. Although I’m sure initially you’d ‘waste’ a lot of (contrast) paint until you learn the minimum amount.

Once you start painting multiple factions then total cost would be more or less equal, but you’d be committed to a single paint system.

Question :

given that we know that contrast = paint + medium … is it possible to estimate the amount of effective paint there is in a single pot ?
12mm standard vs 18 mm contrast would assume 6 mm of the medium, but I doubt the ratio is quite that basic.

btw : air paint is in 24 mm pots …
I assume GW are using different pot size to make price comparisons difficult.