Say goodbye to Citadel Colour paints and hello to Warhammer Colour paints

[Wolfie65 1275xp 0]

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…….

[kingthrall 29xp 0]

I think this is another shot in the foot moment for games workshop. The name citadel really does have a reputation if you know anything about it (just remember how all the boxes had the little castle next to it) .

Although I expected this sooner because everything has to be labeled like a bland corporation. It is an absolute shame because the name citadel made their paints sound different from the figures just like black library does books. Now you feel like buying the supermarket wargaming brand, run of the mill mediocrity rather than a premium product.

 

To be perfectly honest this new mob that  been running the show don’t actually deserve any of the credit that the previous administration works so hard to build.

 

[limburger 22440xp 0]

I think folk forget that the full name is “Games Workshop Group PLC”
Brands like Warhammer, Citadel and Forge World have been mere labels for tax purposes for quite a while now.

The actual Citadel products have likely been gone for decades. To say nothing about the employees that can trace their first day of employment to Citadel.
You’d have to research GW internal documents for that stuff to find the date.

The same thing applies to Forge World. It’s a brand name. An empty shell that exists for convenience of the shareholders.
The names are memberberries that are designed to make people think there is a soul on the inside.
Except like the Emperor of Mankind that is an illusion.

One name to rule them all.
And in darkness bind them …
In Nottingham where the shadows lie 😉

 

[grantinvanman]

My Citadel/Warhammer paints in dropper bottles. I don’t have a lot, mostly contrasts. When I transferred them, I also took the opportunity to add steel mixing balls to the paints.

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[Wolfie65 1275xp 0]

Not all of Nottingham lies in shadow…..

For example, you can, amazingly, still buy Minifigs, freshly made and no longer lead, through Caliver Books, including esoteric treasures like the quite bizarre Aureola Rococo and Valley of the Four Winds ranges, as well as many figures from Sword and Sorcery (Conan) and even some of the very first Fantasy miniatures ever made, Minifigs’ Mythical Earth range. 25 mm scale, tiny next to today’s 28, no, 32, make that 35-ish mm figures but paint up that much quicker.

GW sure have changed. I haven’t bought many new GW items since Battlefleet Gothic and Mordheim and most certainly not their paints. I do not recall EVER buying anything from Forge World and all of my Black Library books came from used bookstores, real as well as online. And boy, am I glad I bought them when I did because the prices they command today -even used – are quite hair-and-blood-pressure-raising……

[Redscope 2738xp 1]

I feel the tugs on my heart string as the “citadel” branding goes as I look at the first box of Citadel minis I bought from GW all those years ago. I am sure I will still call them Citadel paints to my last day it is a difficult habit to break its still Eldar and imperial guard to me.

However like most people said this makes a lot of branding sense. It might be sad for me to see forge world, citadel names go but it makes no sense when half the customers where not born when they where seperate companies under the GW business.

[sundancer 44384xp 0]

Let’s look at the bright side: from now on, when you’re searching ebay and the likes for anything “citadel” you won’t get any paints but only miniatures. Until that is when the old paints become “vintage” XD

[pagan8th 14454xp 0]

Vintage sounds better than old, or past it. I will consider myself to be a ‘vintage human’ from now on.

[limburger 22440xp 0]

You think the folk that sell the empty cardboard box will not attempt to sell empty citadel paint bottles ? 😉

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