A History of Games Workshop Paints

A look at the different kinds of paint that Games Workshop has sold over the years as "Citadel Colour." The old colors are still available from http://www.blackhat.co.uk/

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• warhammer
• fantasy
• 40k
• painting
• chaos
• daemons

[madcapromanian]

Paint bottles @ 3:00 - If the lid is "painted" shut, run them under hot tap water and then use adjustable water pipe plyers and use those to twist off the lid. The hot water will cause the molecules of the plastic lid and paint to move away from one another, thus cracking the paint bond.

[Devstro]

@madcapromanian That's a great idea! Thanks for the tip.

[ClockworkGecko]

You can also get Cote d'Arms Armor Wash via the Privateer Press P3 paint line, which in itself is made by Cote d'Arms but unlike their regular lines of paints, it's made with a liquid pigment base as opposed to a solid. Love the stuff!

[Devstro]

@ClockworkGecko Thanks! I had a hunch that p3 paints were made by Cote d'Arms. I have recently started switching over to p3 paints, and I use them almost exclusively now. I have heard nothing but good thigs about their washes. I'll have to pick some up.

[Clarkson24601]

are you sure that coat d'arms still sells paints? i've tried the link in the description.. also their main site... they seem to not exist... any clue as you seem to buy stuff from them

[Devstro]

@Clarkson24601 hmmm, that's interesting. t has been 9 months to a year sinc eI have ordered from them. Hopefully their are having some technical difficulties and their website will be up again.

[Colorc0ded]

@Android18a They did, I stil have some of them and the paint is fine - amazingly. They actully very similar to the cote'd'arms pot he shows.

[holm76]

The click you mention is actually the opposite of what you are using it for.

Its not supposed to be used to keep the lid open. Its there to prevent the lid form opening too much. You are supposed to just open the lid and then just let it rest against the little tabs.

That way you'd actually get the same effect that you'd get when you tilt the whole bottle.

[Android18a]

I'm fairly sure Citadel Colour came in rounded pots before the hexagonal ones which are your earliest. I used to paint with a friend in the early 90s aroudnd 91/92 and he had quite a few colours, and I'm sure I remember him having pots that were more like the P3 pots than any others I've seen since.

[StephenaGoodwin9]

Nice vid not boring and I hate GW for switching the amount of paint per jar. I used my Ultramarines blue in one day!

[QwertyQwertyHadskill]

A couple of facts and tips for your paints sir, adding water isn't the best thing you can do, if the paint dries and water is placed in it will most likely just make coloured water, so the thing i like to do is place them in the fridge for about 10 minutes, shake them up, and then back in the fridge for 10 minutes, depending on how dehydrated they arm, keeping them in a garage or ventilated room would be good too, also, the little thing on the lid - last paint is for the brush dropper, to save.

[blueday22]

thank you for the video im just starting warhammer as a hobby and this video was really interesting to learn about the old paints and where to get them and to see the diffrent designed pots to the tiny ones you get now thanks agian great video have subcribed

[hufferou812]

Been painting since the late 80s and have Citadel Paints from then... yes, HAVE. They are flip-top lids with round bottles. They almost never dried out unless you got really messy with the paint and got it up inside the lid. Like I said, I still have a few bottles of paint from then left, Ghoul Flesh Grey, Brown Ink and some others! It's a shame they changed to such crap bottles in the mid-late 90s, so thanks for the Coat d'Arms tip!

[FearGFX]

i think it was a good informative vid on the history of the GW paints.... i personally prefere the second to last style because you dont have to clean them up so badly, just get rid of some of the dried paint is enough... the new pots are a pain to clean up

[TSMDesigns]

How would you suggest to keep the paints 'hydrated'?

I havent got my paints out for about 4 years but I got them out yesterday and many of them are bone dry... I put some water in and swirled it around but they are still not perfect.

[MrRabidCat]

When he said idiot proof I would laugh so hard if it just broke infront of that camera