Brand New Citadel Contrast & Shade Paint Pre-Orders This Weekend
June 27, 2022 by brennon
Games Workshop are taking a chill pill when it comes to the miniature releases this week. Instead, this weekend sees pre-orders go live for their new Contrast and Shade paints. Another (updated) tool for your painting arsenal.
New Contrast Range // Games Workshop
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Twenty-five new hues of Contrast paint are going to be joining the collection. The focus is on providing vibrant and vivid colours for your miniatures as well as more solid options with better coverage. Contrast is still a tool that you'll need to get used to using but it does offer a very quick and easy way to paint up armies without much hassle.
Contrast also works really nicely alongside regular paints. It's neat mixing up shades with thinned down Contrast and also using it to work lovely blends into cloaks, magical weapons and more.
Seven new Shades also join the collection and offer up additional options for adding depth to your miniatures.
New Shade Range // Games Workshop
I think Soulblight Grey is going to become a go-to for those looking to do simple white armour. The additional primary colour Shades are going to mean that you can add a subtle difference to your miniatures and make block colours pop a little more.
Capping all of this off is the new White Scar spray that should offer up a nice, clean white basecoat to your miniatures.
New White Scar Spray // Games Workshop
The idea is that this will pop with a more brilliant white and shouldn't need too much extra work. You should, much like Wraithbone and Grey Seer, just be able to apply Contrast right over the top of this and make things look very tasty indeed.
Are you going to be picking up some of these new Contrast and Shade paints?
"I think Soulblight Grey is going to become a go-to for those looking to do simple white armour..."
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Pete the Wargamer did a nice little video looking at these. I will definitely be picking some of them up Celestium Blue he reckons is good enough to use to paint legions of Night Lords, so when I eventually start putting together my Horus Hersey miniatures I will need about a litre of it.
When is speed paints not speed paints.
When it’s GW paints?
Yeah, I committed to Vallejo Model, Air, and recently AK for rust; Vallejo glaze is simply unbeatable.
I also use Createx Wicked Colours which airbrush even better; the metallic range is so finely pigmented, you’d swear it was alcohol-based or lacquer, but it’s not…
I like the Vallejo/Createx size options too. I have a 4L / 1 gallon jug of airbrush cleaner. Do I ever skip a few passes to pre-clean? Never.
GW paints aren’t all bad I loved their green for Orks a base of light green then a coat of watered down darker green so almost a wash? to make Orky Orks.
yup the best place to get gun cleaner is any good auto shop an way cheaper to boot.
Ninjon has also done a review of them (well the contrast ones, shades to follow). Overall he seemed impressed.
was he part of the press-event where GW invited a dozen ‘influencers’ in order to get free product/promotion ?
Did he mention any of that in his ‘review’ ?
Yes he was and yes he did – very open about it (also good and bad about the trip but that was in a different vid)
that’s good to hear.
Sometimes it is as if youtubers forget that sponsors and freebies are only to be mentioned in very fine print where no one can see it.
Aye he got thrown out for “accidently” uploading stuff he shouldn’t have.
I am not an expert on social media but I am fairly sure it isn’t so easy to “accidently” do that.
Yes, he’s very clear about that. I would say his review is fairly balanced, as he takes the time to look at what is new with these paints, how they compare to what was previously released, and he isn’t afraid to be critical when he deems it appropriate.