New GW Paint range.

[rifleman]

Yeah everyone has a friend of a friend who knows a developer i know.

But as an ex gw staffer i still have a few decent friends via various boards who are really in the know and occasionally give me some nice little snippets about new stuff. Heres the lowdown on the paint range changes.

Basics

-Lots of renaming of colours, nothing is leaving.
-Different catagories now, Shades (washes) bases, layers, glazes (thin washes) and textures.
-Prices are unchanged.


Details

- There are 144 paints (the current line is only 73), so the range is doubling in size.
- Broken down into Bases (foundations), Layers (normal colours), shades (washes), Dry (essentially goopy paint for dry brushing), Glaze (thinned washes for easier blending), Texture (sand + colour) and Technical (liquid green stuff).
- Bottles are unchabged.
- Every color is renamed, there will be a white dwarf with a comparison guide released. Blood red is now wild rider red, Ultramarine blue is Calgar blue, skull white is white scar etc etc. There is a big expansion in the greens. There are pinks again, and more purple.
- Foundation white!! Named Ceramite White
- New how to paint book that includes a 90 minute DVD
- Mega paint set available year round now, but is super expensive apparently. Prices are apparently the same (for now).

Paint Names

BASES
Ceramite White
Averland Sun
Jokaero Orange
Mephiston Red
Khorne Red
Naggaroth Night
Daemonette Hide
Kantor Blue
Macragge Blue
Caledon Sky
Stegadon scale green
Incubi Darkness
Caliban Green
Waaaagh! Flesh
Castellan green
Death world forest
Zandri dust
Steel Legion Drab
Bugmans Glow
Ratskin Flesh
Mournfang brown
XV-88
Rhinox hide
Dryad bark
Mechanicus standard grey
Celestus grey
Abaddon Black (the only black in the range)
Rakarth flesh
The fang
Screamer pink
Leadblecher (metal)
Balthasar Gold (metal)
Screaming Bell (metal)
Warplock brown (metal)

LAYER
White Scar
Yriel Yellow
Flash gitz yellow
Troll slayer orange
Fire dragon bright
Evil sunz scarlet
Wild Rider red
Wazdakka red
Squig Orange
Xereus Purple
Genestealer Purple
Warpfiend Grey
Slaanesh Grey
Alaitoc blue
Hoeth blue
Altdorf guard blue
Calgar blue
Teclis blue
Lothern blue
Sotek green
Temple guard blue
Kabalite green
Sybarite green
Warpstone glow
Moot green
Warboss green
Skarsnik green
Loren Forest
Straken green
Nurgling green
Elysian green
Ogryn camo
Ushabti Bone
Screaming skull
Tallarn sand
Karak stone
Cadian fleshstone
Kislev Flesh
Bestigor flesh
Ungor flesh
Skrag brown
Deathclaw brown
Tau light Ochre
Balor brown
Zamesi brown
Doombull brown
Tuskigor fur
Gorthor Brown
Baneblade Brown
Dawnstone
Administratum grey
Eshin grey
Dark reaper
Thunderhawk blue
Skavenblight dinge
Stormvermin fur
Ulthuan grey
Pallid wych flesh
Russ grey
Fenrisian grey
Pink horror
Emperors Children
Ironbreaker (metal)
Runefang steel (metal)
Gehennas gold(metal)
Auric Armour(metal)
Hashut Copper(metal)
Sycorax Bronze(metal)
Brass Scorpion(metal)
Runelord Brass(metal)

SHADES
Casandora Yellow
Fuegan Orange
Carroburg Crimson
Druchii Violet
Drakenhof Nightshade
Coelia greenshade
Biel-tan green
Athonian camoshade
Seraphim Sepia
Reikland fleshshade
Agrax earthshade (Devlan Mud)
Nuln Oil

DRY
Praxeti White
Hexos palesun
Kindleflame
Lucius Lilac
Etherium blue
Skink blue
Hellion green
Underhive ash
Eldar Flesh
Tyrant Shell
Terminatus stone
Longbeard grey
Changling pink
Necron Compound
Golden Griffon

GLAZE
Lamenters yellow
Waywatcher Green
Guilliman blue
Bloodletter

TEXTURE
Mourn Mountain snow
Stirland Mud
Blackfire Eath
Astrogranite
Armageddon Dust
Lustrian Undergrowth

TECHNICAL
Lahmian Medium
Ard coat
Imperial Primer
Liquid Green stuff

Im not entirely sure what my feelings on this are, same old pots but a big change in direction on the paint front. Feel citadel colours must feel threatened by the new paints other ranges are releasing.

[DadCRO]

Crazyness. I'll be nice to have new paints though. I just with they would change the bottles.

[KRIEGEIRK]

I understand the need for change, but why change the name of ALL the colors? Why not just new names for the new paint? Oh GW how you irritate me so. Used to take me a minute to pick up paints, now i'll need to make sure everything is right and matching.

Since they are keeping the current pots, they better keep that little tab to keep the pot open on it. I don't understand why the washes have the tab and the colors don't. Pretty irritating to drop the figure you're painting to adjust the lid over and over again.

[Cosmic]

Well.....I'm not too happy about all those changes! I'm going to stock up on the current washes I think!

[AshotNINJA]

dammit, you beat me too it... i was just going to write the new names up

[Soap]

Happy about the extended range, not happy about the change in names mind. I just think changing the name change is a pointless exercise that's just going to annoy everyone.

[Rolling Thunder]

Lol fúck this.

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

Yeah, I just saw this on BoLS. I'm not happy about the name changes, or the retention of the current style of pots--unless they add tabs to them so they stay open like the wash pots--however, I am happy to see that the range is being expanded. I'm particularly interested in the textured paints.

Oh yeah, Cosmic I wouldn't worry about stocking up on the washes, since nothing is being dropped from the range. Just get the WD with the conversion table, buy the re-named washes and pour them into the old pots!

[Empirespy]

the main thing that interests me is Ceramite White.

[Hookah, S.C.]

Why even do this?

[KRIEGEIRK]

Because they realised Vallejo is a hell of a lot better than their stuff.

[Pyrotechnics]

Mar 17, 2012 19:15:49 GMT -5 KRIEGEIRK said:

Because they realised Vallejo is a hell of a lot better than their stuff.

Wouldn't the best way to combat that be to lower prices and improve the quality of the-...Wait, it's GW, this is the only way they know how to deal with things.

[Cosmic]

I think we should all go to GW HQ and paint it pink using Vallejo Paints.

[KRIEGEIRK]

Mar 18, 2012 5:10:00 GMT -5 Cosmic said:

I think we should all go to GW HQ and paint it pink using Vallejo Paints.

I second this! So much!

[Deathkorpsman]

If they'd just go back to the pot style with screw off tops I'd start buying GW paints again. These horrible ones they have now are the only real complaint I have that makes me buy other brands.

[egon]

Mar 16, 2012 11:00:38 GMT -5 KRIEGEIRK said:

I understand the need for change, but why change the name of ALL the colors? Why not just new names for the new paint? Oh GW how you irritate me so. Used to take me a minute to pick up paints, now i'll need to make sure everything is right and matching.

IP reasons. They want to be able to sue anyone that mentions their brand names. The names they use know (Blood Red, Ultramarine Blue etc) aren't specific enough to be protected so GW will change them.

[Empirespy]

I wonder what colour XV-88 is?

[rifleman]

My guess would be a yellow like the standard Tau yellow.

Im really not sure what to make of it. I can see the reasons for the wholesale changes though im not a fan. The expansion of paints though can only be a good thing.

But it wont affect me as i currently use vallejo on my eldar and will do on my Krieg.

But like all things gw inevitably, like most. I will cry whine and scream...then go and buy it anyway. Hell im up for £36 a squad (£40) including shipping for krieg from FW and im unemployed lol

[badgersplatter]

I'm guessing the people asking for the screw top pots back didn't use the ones before?

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

Yeah, the screw top paints were atrocious. So many of my paints from that era died a premature death due to the threads getting clogged up and the paint drying out, or the top not being able to be removed, even with the assistance of pliers.

[KRIEGEIRK]

Mar 18, 2012 15:12:27 GMT -5 egon said:

Mar 16, 2012 11:00:38 GMT -5 KRIEGEIRK said:

I understand the need for change, but why change the name of ALL the colors? Why not just new names for the new paint? Oh GW how you irritate me so. Used to take me a minute to pick up paints, now i'll need to make sure everything is right and matching.

IP reasons. They want to be able to sue anyone that mentions their brand names. The names they use know (Blood Red, Ultramarine Blue etc) aren't specific enough to be protected so GW will change them.

Makes sense, but still fornicating stupid. I may be visiting a store with all my paints to compare them to Vallejo's line.

[RedsandRoyals]

Actually, Krieg, I think Vallejo gives retailers a chart that tells you what each GW color's equivalent is. If you PM me a list of what paints you're looking for, I can ask a friend to check what they are in the Vallejo line.

Edit: Or you can check yourself, using this guide. Page 20 is what you want.

www.acrylicosvallejo.com/pdf_web/CC073_rev03.pdf

Reds

[KRIEGEIRK]

That would be awesome actually! I'll send you a PM shortly.

[RedsandRoyals]

PM returned. Ran down all but one of them.

Reds

[Rolling Thunder]

Looks like I'll be getting all my paints from Vallejo.