Les anciens pots GW de 18 mL pour 2.50€ ça vous manque ?

For those of you how may not be aware, Games Workshop had an outside company producing their line of Citadel paints until early 1997 with GW decided to start making their paints themselves. That was a sad day for many painters out there. The change was hardly an improvement. For those of you who liked the "old" Citadel paints, rejoice! They are back.

The company HMG Paints Ltd that use to make paints for Citadel have finally released, or re-released I guess you can say, the same line of paints that were once made for Games Workshop. These are the exact same paints, in the exact same bottles, and at the exact same price. The only difference is some of the names of the paints have been changed. Currently over 100 colors from the old range are available.

At the time that these paints were originally available I was using Ral Partha paints and never tried this line of paints. It was not until they were gone I heard how wonderful they really were. Even talking to historical and military modelers told me how much they liked the Citadel paints, especially the metallics. These guys tend to be the top of the heap in miniature painting and it surprised me that they were praising a "gamer's" paint.

With the release of the Coat d'arms line of paints I finally got to try these paints out and I must say that I'm indeed impressed. The colors are bright and are very opaque. The metallics are very finely ground. The good stuff is on the bottom of the bottle so you need to scoop it out instead of shaking the bottle. The metallics were what I heard the most talk about, and the talk is true; they are very nice. Coat d'arms paints have found a permanent place on my desk.