Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Gaming outside the comfort zone

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Saturday night — just a having a relaxed time with the missus. Good tunes on the stereo and reading relaxing stuff (i.e. not news) online.

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I also do like Army Painter as a company. I use paints from many ranges and like to experiment with new stuff, I don’t have particular brand loyalty. Army Painter works well for me. Recently I tried the AP terrain sprays and in particular the Matt Sealer. Brilliant stuff, used them in my TerrainFest project to a great result.

Army Painter surely must be feeling the competition. There’s a lot of paint ranges out there now and lot of innovation going on in the market. GW/Citadel got quite a head start with the Contrast range, and must have caused quite an urgency for the competitors to get their alternatives to the market. This easily could have contributed to the reactivation issue they had with the first iteration.

I find it curious the paint manufacturer are surprised with painters using the products differently than intended. It apparently was the same with GW/Citadel — they were caught off guard with people finding other methods for Contrast. As painters we experiment with stuff all the time, partly on purpose and partly by accident.