Games Workshop Offers New Citadel Textured Paints
October 10, 2016 by stvitusdancern
Games Workshop has released a new set of paints that allow you to put some nice textures on your miniatures. They currently offer evelen different paints to add weathering and atmosphere to your finished miniatures.
We all know that finding the right mix to use as realistic snow can be a challenge and now Games Workshop has an answer with their Valhallan Blizzard texture paint.
They will also have several earth tones and metallics. It is reported that several of paints will come in different consistencies for layering.
These paints are set to be released in just about a week and it will be interesting to see how well they work.
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Those images look nice, if the price is reasonable and they give consistent quality I could see these being quite popular.
I use Stirland Mud, Agrellan Earth and Astrogranite on my models before and while they need a bit of work to make them pop they genuinely give a good base for a model.
Agrellan Earth, in particular, is awesome with some of the stick on tufts and such.
Stirland Mud is a perfectly fine product, but at £4.55 for a pot of 24ml compared to £7.99 for a 200ml pot of Vallejo earth texture, you can get a similar product (superior IMO but YMMV) for a way cheaper price. My expectation is that this will be the same; perfectly fine but a similar product elsewhere will be much cheaper.
Ouch yep that is expensive.
I have only used the GW stuff so can only speak to that in terms of quality – but yes, it is a bit pricey comparatively.
They’re not the same. Stirland Mud is mainly just paint with grit in it, whilst Vallejo is a proper texture and it looks like mud (which is why I prefer it). Stirland Mud is perfectly fine, but I’d encourage anyone who buys GW because it’s GW to look around a bit next time. You’ll find as good if not better products at a cheaper price.
If you want mud, use MIG Mud. It comes in three colours, European wet, European dry and sub-saharran wet. There’s also two grades if each, fine and coarse – for miniatures you want fine
Sometimes when you find a product you like and learn how to use it it is hard to make a transition, even if its just a mindset thing, I do this quite often myself.
Indeed. I am speaking from experience when I suggest shopping around to those who only think to buy their hobby products from GW. At one time that’s what I did. Once I started to look around it opened a much broader range of products at cheaper prices. I understand that brand loyalty is a thing and once people have bought into a brand then they stick with it even if it’s not the best decision. It blows my mind that I ever used to buy GW’s paintbrushes and super glue just because it was by them.
Very curious to the snow effect. I’m looking for a good, simple effect at the moment.
Army painter battlefields snow (or any other snow flock) mixed with PVA and a tiny bit of water in a plastic cup. Use a tooth pick to mix and make a textured paste. Apply with tooth pick to base and parts of the miniatures lower clothing, not on skin or anything warm. Wait a day for it to dry and slather it with gloss varnish. You may need two coats as the flock really absorbs it. A recipe for realistic sloshy snow. Make sure to base with a textured paint or sand and paint it a dark reddish brown (doombull… Read more »
I’d love to see BoW take them all for a test drive and give honest opinions on them, especially the snow. I’ve used some of the existing ones already, with varying degrees of success. The Astrogranite works well, but is hard on the brushes. Agrelan earth tends to flake off the base and isn’t always the best.
@Lawnor It is sometimes not mentioned in the case of Agrellan Earth, but it ideally needs the base to already be painted with a coat to help adhere to, if it’s flaking off.
I’m an old fan of Citadel paints but not all of their Technical paints do it for me.
The snow effect looks very good in the picture tho. I certainly will give it a try.
I don’t mind the price as long as the result is how I want it to be.
My favourite GW effect paints are Blood for the Bloodgod and Typhus Corrosion (that’s all you’ll ever need for the Zombie Apocalypse..).
Plus I am the only person who utterly hates the apparently ever so popular dropper bottles..
Please pm me if you have any empty Citadel pots!
I prefer dropper bottles if I’m airbrushing. When using a brush I have no preference but I’m not a fan of the current Citadel pots. I much prefer the ones used by the likes of Foundry, PP, and Coat D’Arms.
There’s a pdf on their website about using the new textures – these are something a bit different to the existing range. Although the old range is listed there’s some very new products in there that turn the texture range into something that looks a bit special. I haven’t used GW textures for some time, these might make me think again.
https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/Paint//Textured_Paints.pdf
I have only had good experience with gw’s texture paint. I had enough paint in a pot for around 52 goblin town models army. The astrogranite is fantastic, i am gonna use that for all my Mars Attack. I have all ready used it on my Dropzone commander infantry. I dont know, if you guys have seen it, but there is a little pdf with guides for making the bases being shown.
The main reason why I use GW paints, is because it the paint I have easiest access too.
https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/Paint//Textured_Paints.pdf
I like the look of the textured cracking paints. And the course textures look very interesting indeed.
Also the snow texture doesn’t look likea typical textured paint, it seems to have a very different quality when it’s dry so I shall definitely be buying some of that to experiment with.
I’ve based far more than 52 minis out of my Vallejo pot and still have plenty left. Not criticising the quality of GW’s texture paints, only pointing out that they are very expensive and comparable products are available for a much much cheaper price.
My biggest issue with textured paints is that they dry out – something my Mig Mud pots were not immune to. However of the entire GW range of textured paints the only ones I’m really interested in are the 4 cracking paints (i.e. cracking as in making little cracks, not cracking as in excellent) and the snow. I’ll probably stick to PVA and Sand for everything else. But I can’t recommend. MIG mud highly enough. You can pile it on the base, sculpt it and once it’s dry a coat of gloss varnish (like Ard Coat) provides an absolutely amazing… Read more »
Does sound pricey and I am still happy with my pumice
Depending on what you’re doing, Agrellan Badland abd Martian Ironcrust look very interesting (and unique)
I like the look of the new crackle texture ones. Lots better than the old ones and they were pretty nice.
Martian ironcrust looks good
These looks ace. The crackle paints that gw have, are by far the best I have ever used.
And yes Gw textures are expensive yadayadayada… But I dont care. They work well, and are easy to get a hold off.
@redben don’t you ever get tired of being a negative nancy in every single gw thread?
My instinctive reaction would be to protest the description but never let it be said that I am not capable of self-reflection. I hit the Games Workshop tag in this post and checked the first page of hits that came up to see what I posted. There were fifteen, of which there are nine in which I didn’t post anything. This is what I did post in the remaining six: GW Texture Paints: A perfectly good product but very expensive in comparison to what else is available. Weekender XLBS: That GW should be wary of Kill Team becoming an alt… Read more »
I have a sort of mental list of user IDs who seem to pop up on GW article comments with non-objective criticisms of Games Workshop. People who have very little to really back up their opinions and are just shit-posting for no reason other than they dislike GW. @redben is not on that list. I don’t always agree with everything that he says but he usually shares some reasoning behind posts – especially if that post is critical of something, either a product or someone else’s idea.
I certainly don’t dislike GW. I have no strong feelings on them either way. They are a hobby and games company, one amongst many, and I approach them as such, just as any other company in the industry. Here, I’m pointing out that some of GW texture products are very expensive, and suggesting that it can be worth it in this instance to look past the brand loyalty and shop around. If there were another company in this situation, I would say the same thing. On the battle mat thread, I compared the price favourably to similar mats by Deep… Read more »
@nosebiter when you say the crackle paints GW have are the best you have ever used, do you know of another company that makes paints that do that? I’ve not seen anything like that outside of the GW range, I’d be interested to see whether there alternatives out there.
@onlyonepinman If you need the effect on a large scale you can actually buy these crackle paints in a spray can from places like The Range / Wilkinson. I forget the brand name but they actually give very good results (but with much less control obviously). I have used them on dioramas before.
Thinking about it you may be able to decant the paint from the spray can and use it as normal brushable paint, might be worth looking into…
Thankfully I only use it on bases. However Plastikote in the UK have something similar but it’s not exactly the same and the colours are less earthy and more aimed at painting household decorative items and have colours aimed at that. It’s Also quite hard to paint it whereas the GW ones have a small window when the paint seals before it starts cracking and you can paint the surface and change the colour. I actually emailed GW last year to suggest that perhaps they should consider expanding the range of colours of the cracking paints because even from the… Read more »
@nosebiter A quick read through your commenting history is all it takes to realise that you are in fact much more of a negative poster than redben by quite a considerable margin.
The snow one looks like it might be useful – especially for my Space Wolves.
@redben – Thanks for mentioning Vallejo earth texture. I’d not heard of it before and I’ve just ordered some to give it a go.
Hopefully you’ll like it :). If you have any experience of Stirland Mud you’ll find it’s a different texture, though it ultimately achieves the same purpose. It sort of of looks like a tub of wet, gritty mud when you open it, whereas Stirland Mud more paint with grit in it. If I’m going to just use the texture without grass, I’ll leave it to dry and then lightly drybrush it to add some depth. If I am going to flock it I don’t bother with the drybrushing and just glue some grass straight on.