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Now, the list of new paint colors has hit the internets.
Here are the rumors thus far (collected from DakkaDakka, Stahly's Tale of Painters and Mr. Saturday's Mumblings):
- There will be 144 colors.
- Though the paints' names are changing, nothing is leaving.
Blood Red will now be Wild Rider Red, Ultramarine Blue will become Calgar Blue, Skull White will be called White Scar, etc. In other words, unlike Tentacle Pink, the Chaos Black or Skull White name may be gone, but the color will remain.
And, speaking of Tentacle Pink ...
- We'll be getting an expansion of colors. Not only is there is a big expansion in the range of greens, there will also be pinks again and a wider variety of purples. And those of you waiting for a Foundation version of plain ol' White won't have to wait much longer.
- Even with all of the re-naming, you won't have to guess which paint became which. There will be a White Dwarf with a comparison guide. There'll be no need for eye-balling it.
- Paints will be broken into categories now: Bases (think Foundation paints), Layers, Dry (for dry-brushing), Shades (washes), Glazes (thinner washes) and Textures (which appear to be exactly that) and Technical (think varnishes and Liquid Green Stuff).
- Prices are not changing! (So, they'll still be -- comparatively -- expensive.)
- The pots are not changing.
- Along with the new paints, there's going to be a new How To Paint Citadel Miniatures guide, complete with a 90-minute DVD.
And, just to get you ready for all of the changes, here's a list of the colors:
| 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 Rakarth Flesh The Fang Screamer Pink Leadblecher (metallic) Balthasar Gold (metallic) Screaming Bell (metallic) Warplock Brown (metallic) |
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 Fleshtone 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 (metallic) Runefang Steel (metallic) Gehennas Gold (metallic) Auric Armour (metallic) Hashut Copper (metallic) Sycorax Bronze (metallic) Brass Scorpion (metallic) Runelord Brass (metallic) |
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 |
| SHADES Casandora Yellow Fuegan Orange Carroburg Crimson Druchii Violet Drakenhof Nightshade Coelia Greenshade Biel-tan Green Athonian Camoshade Seraphim Sepia Reikland Fleshshade Agrax Earthshade Nuln Oil |
GLAZE Lamenters yellow Waywatcher Green Guilliman blue Bloodletter |
TEXTURE Mourn Mountain Snow Stirland Mud Blackfire Earth Astrogranite Armageddon Dust Lustrian Undergrowth |
TECHNICAL Lahmian Medium 'Ard Coat Imperial Primer Liquid Green stuff |
I've got to admit, my first thought when all of the painting articles began disappearing and the rumors began swirling about changes to the paints -- particularly in the middle of painting a rather massive army -- I wasn't tremendously excited about the prospect of needing to figure out what paint was closest to what.
But, after having read the latest batch of rumors and seeing that we're not losing anything but, rather, gaining new paints and new colors and new things to make it easier for the average gamers to excel at the painting side of the hobby, I'm actually sort of excited to see what's in store.
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