Pick Up Your Painting As New GW Contrast Paints Go Up For Pre-Order
June 10, 2019 by dracs
Games Workshop have announced that their much-anticipated Contrast Paints are now available, alongside a host of new additions for the rest of their paint range.
We also have them available on our own web store: store.ontabletop.com. It will be interesting to see how the community use them and we would love to see your work in the project system.
Contrasting Colours
The Contrast Paint range is Games Workshop's declared innovation in painting, letting you quickly and easily get a fully painted army onto the table by combining the base and shading steps into one thick coat of paint.
There are thirty-four contrast paints, giving you a good starting point from which to paint any miniature from across Games Workshop's wide range.
If you're a painting Luddite like me, these are a very welcome addition to Games Workshop's paints. Painting is by far my least favourite part of the hobby, though there is a real satisfaction to getting a fully painted army out on the table. These should help me to paint something eye-catching and no longer suffer the ignominy of the sea of grey plastic.
These Contrast paints are further supported by new Contrast Undercoats, designed to complement the new paints, and a Technical Contrast Medium, which is a thinner designed to work with Contrast Paints which can't be mixed effectively with water.
If you want to see more of how these Contrast Paints work, you can check out our video from UKGE where Warren got to give them a go for himself.
We think Warren had quite a bit of fun there...
A Splash Of Colour
As well as the new Contrast Paints, Games Workshop are expanding their existing range with new Base and Layer paints, and even the relaunch of their Air range.
Layer Paints
Base Paints
Air Paints
There are also some new additions to their Technical range, such as the Stormshield varnish, designed specifically for Contrast Paints, or the Mordant Earth for adding texture to your bases.
Games Workshop are collating some of these paints together into a Battle Ready Paint Set, available for a limited time.
All of these new paints should give you plenty of options for getting your army ready. However, they have had us asking ourselves one question...
Who comes up with the names?
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Maybe when I walk into the GW store…
I could try these out when painting my Orc Team for BB.
Defianetly an interesting new method of painting.
That last image confuses me (it doesnt take much), I thought the whole point of these was you didnt need to do the base and layer steps and painted the contrast paints over the undercoat? did I miss something?
In fact ignore me, the x4, x2 etc are quantities not the step number… eejit.
If you don’t have a retailer that discounts GW product (my FLGS does 25%), the paint deal saves you the price of one of the 24ml pots (7.80 USD). If I hadn’t worked out a paint scheme for my death guard, I’d definetly be into these. Luckily my wife enjoys painting, because I don’t haha.
Tested them out yesterday at the Warhammer store in Belfast. Got a really nice fade effect on a cloak in seconds, my son who is 7 sat next to me and painted up one of the Shadespire Stormcast minis in a few minutes. The fact they fit into my painting style and my kids can get good results while having a fun time slapping on some paint means I’ll be picking up a bunch of these. I reckon this should help me to finally get through a bunch of my unpainted board game minis as well.
thelostdog, many thanks for your post. I wanted to hear from someone who has actually used these paints before trying them myself. You have helped me decide to give them a go.
Check out the videos embedded in the article, Warren gave them a go at UKGE.
Thanks Dracs that helps a lot.
Very interesting times ahead. Im waiting with these until supply and demand dies down and also to see what postivies and negatives are discovered by people playing around with them.