New Citadel Paints - adaptation and recipes

[Seoman]

Hello,

Since few weeks I've been using new Citadel paints. It's new to me, I've been painting with Vallejo Game Color for years. Well, colors are different, so my old ways of creating various effects need to change. I tried this and that, but I'm curious, what are your methods of painting:
- NMM steel
- NMM gold
- NMM bronze
- leather
- human skin
- ork skin
- rust on NMM
- rust on metallic paint
- and other stuff
with those new paints.

 

[Garshnak]

As much as I'm miffed about the new citadel paints (the names also make less sense..), here's one:

Easy ork skin (muted tones, works really well in contrast with bright clothing and weapons):
-basecoat with Castellan green
-build up highlights with Elysian green
-Wash shadows and transitions with Mournfang brown
-glaze lips with Ratskin flesh, knuckles as well if you want to
-optional: tonal variation with xereus purple + mournfang brown
-optional: touch up final highlights with Elysian green and then with a tiny amount of Yriel yellow

Doombull brown is a pretty okay rust colour overall. Both NMM an TMM, with jokaero orange for variation.

 

[The Imperial Painter]

Hi,
Leather:
Mournfang brown basecoat
Highlight Balor Brown
Shade Rhinox Hide
Glaze with a colour of your choice to give it the right tone

Human Skin:
Doombull Brown - Cadian Fleshtone (1:1) basecoat
Build up highlights using Cadian Fleshtone
Highlight Kislev Flesh
Extreme Highlight Kislev Flesh - White Scar (1:1)

Cheers,
Tom

 

[Kalidane]

Is there a problem with continuing to use Vallejo Game Colour?

 

[Seoman]

Well, yes, there is. VGC paints have some advantages over Citadel - mainly bottles, pigment, quantity - but those are minor issues. Now, Citadel - (IMHO) better overall quality, paint control, smoothness. Easier blending. Most of colors behave the same way - as opposed to VGC, where every bottle (even the same color) has different properties. When mixed, Citadel paints don't separate in few seconds. There is no going back for me. It's like I was living in the dark, and now I have 100W lightbulb

 

[Elric2k]

Given GW constantly lowering standards and price increases in everything they do, I'll stick to a company whose main goal isnt to shove it up their customer's asses at every turn VMC/VGC to me, are vastly superior in every single way to anything GW makes, and I've tried the new paints at one of those GW centers. If you're going for tabletop minis, GW paints are for you. They don't, however, take the place of knowledge of color theory and mixing your own paints to get cool colors.

 

[Seoman]

I have 7 years of practice with VGC. I don't paint for gaming, only for pleasure of wasting huge amounts of time for toy soldiers I'm surprised that opinions on those paint ranges are so diverse. As for me, changing paints was like a huge breath of fresh air. Quite a lot of issues I had with painting just got solved instantly.