Are old Citadel paints REALLY better?

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[DMStraylight]

The round-bottle paints are actually still available new today, under the Coat d'Arms brand, I believe still made by the same mabufacturer GW contracted for them back in the '80s.

[GoobertownHobbies]

I guess 25 years of living in an attic isn't good for anyone huh? Minis look awesome tho! I really like the hues of those old colors.

[JayAndNightASMR]

The best thing was the old paints were they were named better and were more consistent, they're constantly changing the new paints so you end up with 3 very slightly different colours of the same name.

[jordivermeulen]

One thing I will say about these old paints: the seals on the pots were much better. When I got back into painting a while back, I had a bunch of pots from different eras. The only ones that were still usable were some of the hexagonal ones, which are the oldest paints I own. All the newer pots had simply turned into a big dry lump.

That said, I still wish Citadel paints came in dropper bottles. I recently transfered all my paints to droppers and I don't think I'll ever want to go back.

[heasne]

We all know the best paint is goblin green

[jorey]

New Citadel paints have huge problem for light colors especially with kind of sedimentation creating lumps..you have to filter them to have a nice fluid paint for brush & airbrush..i have all brands complete paints of them, Vallejo model and game, AK interactive 3gen, Citadel LAyer and Base, Kimera, and some scale 75, etc..there are not a brand most better than a another, each have their wickness and strengh.
But i must admit Citadel, then well diluted with airbrush thinner for airbrush or water/airbrush thinner for brush are my best paints to used.
I'm 50years old, winning 3 golden demon in France, and start painting in years 1985.

[ericsmith]

I started by painting my Heroquest set with Testor's enamel model paints. I had a basic set with red, black, blue, yellow, and white. No green. No purple. No flesh. My dad (who was a professional artist and sign painter most of his life) taught me how to mix blue and red for purple, blue and yellow for green, red and yellow for orange, and red and black to get brown, then how to mix that with various amounts of white to get all my different flesh tones. I was fortunate that my father was a professional artist because I got a head start on color mixing for those various tones and colors.

[porcu]

Oh man. The original Tin Bitz. I used to paint my "Space Orkz" armour with that back in the day. I still have so many of these old school paints and they are still fully functional after all those years being opened. Only a couple of them dried up.

[WillSpengler]

The old round and hex bottle paints were manufactured in the UK by a company called HMG. They also manufacture Coat d'Arms and P3 :)

[bigkahoonaburger]

Nostalgia makes me say A is the best, i miss the vibrancy of the old models and that glowing green goblin made me smile 😃

[MentoliptusBanko]

The most amazing thing about those old paints is that they are still usable after more than 20 years in the pot :O

[TheGameCraftDragon]

I think the issue had more to do with the actual age, rather than the quality of the actual paints. I'd suggest you try Coat d'Arms - they were the original manufacturer of the citadel pots before they brought the manufacturing in house. Trying new Coat d'Arms vs New Citadel might be a better experience.

[idk-ylfn]

I think we all wanna know one thing. Which one tastes the best?

[willthorson]

Bolt gun metal is awesome. I still use it. Great for weld seams and tank road wheels and track edges.

[djwoody]

The black lidded ones in the glass pots still work for me, I've had em since I was very young, they even survived a trip across the world to New Zealand.

[justanotherdayinthelife]

I love the vivid green of the old school goblin skin over all others 100%.

[Shypa]

I started with this paints. nice time travel here <3

[azbarbarian]

I would recommend a porcelain or plastic palette for those older paints. They are hydrophilic and will absorb more water from a wet palette than you may be used to. I still have some of these and moved them into dropper bottles within the last year.

[patrickmcelveen]

Emil, thanks for continuing the nostalgia theme. Brings me back to old days when I had time to paint and play regularly.

[OrakelofDeath]

ca. 7:35 : The round Bottles are from the first Paint Range of Citadel, which came out around '88. As far as In know, the Octaeder-Bottles came as the second Paint Line four-six years later. (I'm not entirely sure, if they were sold fron 92 or 94.)