green stuff
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OK, I tend to use Chestnut and Brown inks. I prefer their richer tones, but I suppose the Flesh ink can get you that worn out and beaten look.
Discontinued GW Colors - Do you have a favorite?
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abstract_incendiarie
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I must have got a bad batch as I cannot get the same effect from the coat d\'arms paints that I could from my old shining gold, it completely killed my army\'s progress as it was the main colour, also I ran out of effort, but it seems easier to blame something that isn\'t me.
AI
I am very very much missing Ghostly grey as well, I love that color and actually use it for nearly all my nmm. I have just a fraction of a paint pot left of it. Let me tell you that is the best taken care of paint I own, always sealed tightly, I check it often to see if needs to be thinned, etc...I actually fear for my painting ability once it\'s gone
QuietiManes
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I miss them all, especially smelly primer! Oh how I dread when my wee pot of smelly primer runs dry...
Actually I dont miss the metalics...I hate metalics...I\'m not a NMM snob or anything I just never liked metalic flakes in paint, especially for miniatures.
I\'m quirky ???
Actually I dont miss the metalics...I hate metalics...I\'m not a NMM snob or anything I just never liked metalic flakes in paint, especially for miniatures.
I\'m quirky ???
mattsterbenz
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storm blue (luckily i bought the last 3 from my local shop before they sold out)
leperous brown (great orangy tint for nmm gold)
pallid flesh (good for elvsies)
-first post since like... 4 months ago
-matt
leperous brown (great orangy tint for nmm gold)
pallid flesh (good for elvsies)
-first post since like... 4 months ago
-matt
Infidel Castro
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I switched to coat d\'arms when I was given a set for free
They taste like the old citadel paints and go on like the old paints (not always good but never badly). God I love my coaties.
They taste like the old citadel paints and go on like the old paints (not always good but never badly). God I love my coaties.
Infidel Castro
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Well, it started when I was hungry and wanted to eat some paints. Painted for 3 hours the other day - a record!
Both sides as well by the way lol
Both sides as well by the way lol
vincegamer
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I\'m sorry to hear this one is oop, since I have begun using it as a base for my yellows and I paint a LOT of yellow.
Avelorn
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Sorry for the late response
@green stuff: I used flesh wash for making gold and copper. I also used is Mike pointed out for rust effects.. I usually mixed it with vermin brown. I used it for other types of weathering as well. I mixed it with browns and greens for bases and stones.. and finally I used it to tint flock towards brown and orange. It was just nice and handy.
I prefer the old inks before the new ones.. and they taste much better too. Probably why my flesh wash has almost run out.
@green stuff: I used flesh wash for making gold and copper. I also used is Mike pointed out for rust effects.. I usually mixed it with vermin brown. I used it for other types of weathering as well. I mixed it with browns and greens for bases and stones.. and finally I used it to tint flock towards brown and orange. It was just nice and handy.
I prefer the old inks before the new ones.. and they taste much better too. Probably why my flesh wash has almost run out.
QuietiManes
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I dont know how so many people know the tastes of all the inks and paints they use. Furthermore, how they seem to LIKE some of them! I\'m seriously concerned the brushlickers are going to fall over dead one day when the hazardous materials reach a lethal level in their system.
Arent paints poisonous? I know the craft and miniature paints we use dont have the big skull and crossbones symbol on them like the paints and thinners in the hardware store, but, they cant be \'edible\', can they?
Although all this talk makes me want to suck on my brush the next time I paint just to try it out myself. lol I\'ve been lurking on this site for years and havent yet, I\'m afraid I\'ll like it!
Arent paints poisonous? I know the craft and miniature paints we use dont have the big skull and crossbones symbol on them like the paints and thinners in the hardware store, but, they cant be \'edible\', can they?
Although all this talk makes me want to suck on my brush the next time I paint just to try it out myself. lol I\'ve been lurking on this site for years and havent yet, I\'m afraid I\'ll like it!
Avelorn
Sven Jonsson
@QuietiManes: Well I\'ve thought about that several times, that\'s why I never lick the brush WITH colour on it. I merely lick it before I put colour on it.. however that procedure can get mixed up sometimes. lick-colour-paint.. paint-colour-lick.. colour-lick-lick.
You\'ve heard that story about the people who painted the luminous dial clocks in the 1920\'s? Well, the paint icluded RADIUM (a radiactive substance).. and they all got sick and most died I believe. Of course at first the companies denied that radium was harmful in any way, despite the scientific work made on that area and the general consesus by experts. I\'m not afraid of what I know is in the paint... I\'m more afraid of what I don\'t know.
You\'ve heard that story about the people who painted the luminous dial clocks in the 1920\'s? Well, the paint icluded RADIUM (a radiactive substance).. and they all got sick and most died I believe. Of course at first the companies denied that radium was harmful in any way, despite the scientific work made on that area and the general consesus by experts. I\'m not afraid of what I know is in the paint... I\'m more afraid of what I don\'t know.
Ebonbuddha
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I actually miss the old pots that had flip tops (Coat d\' arms uses them). the hex pots just let the paint dry.
I\'ve still got all of the original inks (except chestnut) as released by GW in the \"Expert Paint Set\". Expert my arse, all it did was turn my badly painted miniatures into badly painted miniatures with pools of half-dried ink.
These are in the wee dropper bottles, by the way, not the pots that they use now.
I\'ve also still got about 20 pots of the old Citadel Colours in the round pots with the white flip-top lid. I never throw old paint out
Rab.
These are in the wee dropper bottles, by the way, not the pots that they use now.
I\'ve also still got about 20 pots of the old Citadel Colours in the round pots with the white flip-top lid. I never throw old paint out
Rab.
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Yup. Dunno why so many people are fretting. Just replace your old faves with Coat D\'Arms when it runs out. I picked up some of their inks the other day in Wargames World. £1.20 a pot:flip:
I\'m even considering buying a set of their military colours...
I\'m even considering buying a set of their military colours...
neonlights
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I still have a pot of this from 1992 and have just been using it this weekend! I\'d always thought there was this yucky green tinge to it though, so always mixed in red paint to get something closer to burnished gold, which I thought looked more real. Having said that, today i used it without mixing, and it doesn\'t look half bad!
Fav paint is brown ink - still got the same pot from 1992! In fact most of my paints are the old white top round bottles, most of them still flowing good! I bought some white and black the other day, thinking I might need to replace the old ones, but what do you know, paint keeps for a decade!
I was rather fond of Jade green and lightning bolt blue for doing highlights, both are rather extreme colours, and don\'t really fit with GW\'s (or my own for that matter) current trend towards more realistic colour schemes.
On balance I like the new colours they brought in more that the old colours they chucked out (but I use the Vallejo Game colour versions).
On balance I like the new colours they brought in more that the old colours they chucked out (but I use the Vallejo Game colour versions).
