How to Paint Citadel Miniatures 2012 - Book Review

Here's my take on the new how to paint book from GW.  Its a well done book, but at $60 not everybody is going to get good value out of it.

New Paint range and Conversion chart

Well, its official... the new 145 paint range is on advance order and costs an arm and a leg ($645 cdn)... ouch.  The other thing that sucks is that they have changed the names of everything... I really liked that some of the names have been around for ever.   Oh well... I guess I'll have to learn new names.  On the upside, I really like the idea of the paint book that stands on your painting table.  And it includes a video (but there will be lots of those online if I can help it).

I still haven't had a chance to go over the colours to see how exactly they are organized, but I'm hoping its straight forward about which ones go together to get nice colours (like the reaper system).  Oh, and they have completely changed all the names, so even the foundations and washes are different (aaaaggghhh, no more devlin mud).  Then there's the question about what to do with all the paints I have now.  Maybe my brother will want to buy them :)

New GW paint chart

I've been hearing about this for a while now, and just came across this over at http://taleofpainters.blogspot.ca/2012/03/rumours-new-citadel-paint-range-colour.html

I'm super excited.  I love the reaper triad system, and will enjoy having the matched sets for GW paints as well.  It makes painting super easy and eliminates a lot of mixing.

Eavy Metal Brush Set Review

Here's a review of the new 'Eavy Metal paint brush set. Its a limited release just in time for Christmas with two 'Eavy Metal branded brushes, two pots of matte medium, a metal case and a small booklet. I picked one up today and here's an unboxing and brief review. Leave a comment below if you have any questions, comments or perhaps your own review.  Video below.

Reaper Bone Triad

I managed to fit in a little painting last night... this time working on my black orcs. I'm adding the bone coloured bits right now and using the Reaper Bone colours for it. This is one of the aspects of the Reaper range that I like; the organization of colours into triads. I layer things the same, however I don't really need to mix things and I always know what colours will work together. I also know that the colours will end up looking the same across my army since I'm not mixing things each time. It ends up being a bit more expensive (because I'm buying more paints), but I like results.

DIY Devlin Mud

Ok, so we all know Devlin mud is talent in a bottle... so I'm a little inspired to try and replicate that in a DIY form. Over on Dakkadakka.com there is an article about using Paynes Grey liquitex paint to make a replacement for Badab black (ink wash). So, I'm giving Burnt umber a try. I have the soft body Liquitex paint, some flow improver and distilled water. I think the Devlin mud has some black in it, so I added what I had. My results aren't quite conclusive, but I think I'm on to something. I gave my giant a coat of it to evaluate.

Starting to paint WFB

I'm slowly working my way through spraying a base coat (Burgundy red) on my Fantasy Orcs and Goblins. Last night I sprayed the giant and some black orcs. Here's the Giant with a coat of Tallerian flesh over the red base.