Get Painting with Games Workshop’s Ultimate Paint Set
November 3, 2012 by dracs
Games Workshop have released their entire Citadel paint range in the new Ultimate Paint Set.
This new paint set brings you the entire Citadel paint set, all included in this robust shelved cardboard, which will allow to neatly store away all your paints rather than leave them scattered amidst the detritus of your desk like I do.
Now this packaging idea is much better than with previous collections of Citadel paint and would certainly be useful for people like myself, but in the end I think that its price seriously lets it down.
I know we usually stay clear of talking about the price, but it is quite a lot considering that you probably won't be using a good number of the paints on a regular basis.
What do you guys think? Is this thing over priced? Or do you think it would be worth getting hold of?
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Most gamers will never use all the paints. In most cases an army will revolve around a hand full of chosen paints and need more than one of each of those paints. So a box like this is really not worth it for game painters. But for a studio that paints others minis this could be a good sale for them as they are more likely to do every kind of paint theme you could come up with.
I think studios are more likely to use other brands of paint honestly. Most other brands give you more ml of paint per bottle for a lower price, and studios burn through more paint than individual painters do (generally speaking). When you’re in business painting every penny counts (especially considering the low hourly margins most studios make). I think a lot of studios use airbrushes more often as well because it speeds up production time, and there are other brands of paint (P3 and Vallejo Air) that are better suited to airbrushing (less likely to clog which means less time… Read more »
I would hope buying the whole collection would reduce the price per pot to make it a good deal.
I bought the small paint sets ages ago and the colours proved to be useful but the saving was zero on buying them individually iirc.
It was convenient for me at that time to not have to keep getting on a train and tram every time I wanted a pot of paint.
But this set is not what I would want. Especially as I am moving over to Valejjo.
£280 of completely wasted intentions imho. You can pick up both the Model and Game colour sets from Vallejo for less, plus you get 2x great carry cases with them and you would get 6x great paint brushes. I don’t use my cases so can sell them on ebay to get a bit of your money back. GW keep renewing their range because they get people trying the “new set” out again and again therefore a good marketing strategy. I have both the Game and Model colour sets + a lot of the Air range + some P3 paints as… Read more »
Have to say that it is a very nice presentation box though!! Wish they had the people working in the marketing department, working on the production line and customer relations dept. 😛
Maybe some of the GW lawyers could help out to? or are they the customer relations dept? lol
The only GW paints I use anymore are the old washes. Once my Devlan Mud and Gryphonne Sepia are used up, I’ll start using the Army Painter washes (a near perfect match for Devlan, Gryphonne and Badab btw) and P3 inks. Still looking for a good flesh wash replacement. I used to use their metallics more too, but I’ve since switched to P3 for those. I’m gradually moving over to P3 for just about everything these days. I still have a ton of Vallejo Model Colors, and I’ll still use a few of them for shades P3 doesn’t really have… Read more »
I bought the old old mega paint set with screw-on lids and magenta ink ages ago and it gave me a good paint collection to start with. But back in those days Vallejo and P3 weren’t options.
Despite the nicer box I don’t think this set will be as good for new painters these days. Between price inflation and the recent expansion of the line I get the feeling the set is now too bloated and expensive to fill that same role.
I have brought a number of mega paint sets, my first being the ones with the white flip top caps that included woodland green and chestnut ink. lol. But I always got through them because when I was younger I was a painting demon. I’d tear through projects like there was no tomorrow. The last megapaint set I brought though from GW was the same one as you, and I didn’t really go through it at all. This might have been to do with the fact that I started to slowly switch over to Vallejo. I’ve never really looked back.… Read more »
Personally for me the lack of dropper style bottles is the reason I choose Vallejo and Reaper over GW paints, I have used some of the paints but using an airbrush as much as I do, dropper bottles are the way to go for me. I do wonder just how much more paint GW would sell if they switched to droppers too.
The trouble is GW like having simplified manufacture and storage options. They like signposting what products fit into what ranges via packaging. Even when there are better packaging options out there for one product they will stick it in something else to show it belongs in the same range as other product. Take liquid green stuff as an example. There texture paints and dry compounds need to be in pots of some form, although granted I don’t think the pots they are in now are the greatest. So as they are in the same range as the paints and washes,… Read more »
What are Tamiya paints like? I’ve used Vallejo and I’m very pleased with them but the Tamiya stuff in their little metal pots just look quite intimidating! 😛
Tamiya pots are in glass. Not sure about their enamel range though?
I have a few but they are not my favourite. The have very low viscosity and handle very differently to Vallejo, Citadel and Humbrol acrylics. They do not like being thinned with water and the Tamiya thinners or isopropyl are required. Although I have recently discovered that they will work with Winsor and Newton Galleria flow aid .
Ah yeah I must be thinking of the enamel stuff then, cheers for that though, very helpful! 🙂
chibi is right. But I’ve found once thinned they worked splendidly well through my airbrushes, and I’m able to get some quite interesting effects when thinning their clear paints. I personally use my Vallejo Game and Model Color for most of the grunt work I do. But every now and then I flip to P3 when I’m wanting to do something quite fantastical looking, and Tamiya do a great job on ‘flat’ or matte finishes. The Tamiya paints might not play well with others when mixing… however as a well keyed base coat to paint over I’ve found their military… Read more »
The Tamiya acrylics are great paints. They offer great coverage and they go on really smooth. Everything Angry says about them is true. The big problem with them though is that they’re not thinned only with water and acrylic medium. Tamiya adds alcohol to their solvent mixture so you can’t really mix them with anything except other Tamiya paints unless you really know what you’re doing. You also have to take more precautions when painting with them to avoid screwing your health up. One of the biggest advantages of water-based acrylics over enamels or oils is that you can use… Read more »
Does the Eavy Metal squad still exist? IMHO I have noticed that the in house painting style is almost a parody of Eavy Metal with the figures looking flatter and more graphic.
Is this not what they promote for the fans these days?
I think the new directive in the GW studio is to make paint schemes that can easily be achieved by just layering the pre-ordained color sets on each other. The goal is to make the studio paint schemes look more achievable with the new paint system rather than try to showcase the models with the best paint job possible. That way their customers don’t get frustrated when their minis end up looking nothing like the studio models. It certainly looks like they’re toned it down recently.
Every time GW bring out a megapaint set the discussions are the same. 😛
Who will buy it, it’s too expensive and… it’s a waste of paint and money! However, every time they do people do buy them. Who will buy them? Keen enthusiast with more money than sense. lol. I used to be one of those… or more accurately I used to have the swaying power to convince my parents to turn themselves into one of those consumers with more money than sense. They will sell, of that you can be sure. They just won’t sell to people like me.
The main thing for me is they’re no longer the best paints available, if they were, I’d probably still pay for ’em but with game color cheaper in better bottles with more paint in them…
They haven’t been the best paints available for some time buddy, and I agree with you, if they were I’d still be buying them. I’ve got my hands on a few of the Andrea Paints and they’re quietly impressing me.
I have a feeling that with people still gun-ho about Devlan Mud and others they will come out with a “classic range”, but at a price increase.
That or people will cotton on to the fact army painter strong tone is almost identical.
All I have at the bottom of my pot is gunk-ho! lol
Going back to Tamiya paints the Tamiya Smoke is more like a thicker version of a Citadel wash and not like the rest of the range. It gets used quite a lot for washes and weathering by scale model builders from what I can tell
I use smoke with a little thinner on the moving piston parts on a warjack it looks like a thin film of oil when its dry