Games Workshop announces new Citadel Contrast Paints (incl Release Date)

Last Updated on May 26, 2019 by FauxHammer

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Games Workshop has been teasing “a revolutionary new way to paint” for the last month. On day 1 of this year’s Warhammer fest, they have now announced the rumoured “Contrast Paints”.

Update: 12/05/19 – we now have the names of all the colours

Update: 12/05/19 – No official date yet, but unofficial comments from Warhammer Fest suggest that these paints will be out by the end of June

Update: 26/05/19 – The Release Date has finally been revealed

I was hoping for a re-release of their whole paint range in Dropper Bottles but based on these coming in the exact same pots. I wouldn’t hold my breath that Droppers Bottles are coming any time soon. I guess we need to continue transferring them to Dropper Bottles ourselves. Or just buying paint that comes in droppers already.

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Rumours of this being something like Army Painter’s Quickshade Tins have been swirling for a while. But this is slightly different in that these paint’s are more akin to a pigment dense wash.

The whole pitch here is that you can simply apply one coat of the 34 new colours (yes they don’t match the names of existing colours) over one of the 2 new primers. This will shade, colour and “highlight” the model in just one quick coat. Although, this “revolutionary” “new” method is rather similar to the decade-old Army painter’s Quickshade Washes.

As you may have noticed from the top image, these paints are also in a new size of pot somewhere between the existing standard 12ml pots and the easily tippable 24ml shade & texture pots.

Games Workshop Citadel Contrast Paint - Painting

Citadel Contrast Paint – Colour List

34 new Paints

Apothecary White

Black Templar
Space Wolves Grey
Gryph-Charger Grey

Basilicanum Grey
Volupus Pink
Blood Angels Red

Flesh Tearers Red
Magos Purple
Shyish Purple

Aethermatic Blue
Leviadon Blue
Ultramarines Blue

Talassar Blue
Terradon Turquoise
Akhelian Green

Dark Angels Green
Militarum Green
Iyanden Yellow

Nazdreg Yellow
Gryph-hound Orange
Snakebite Leather (It’s Back Baby!)

Cygor Brown
Guilliman Flesh
Fyreslayer Flesh

Darkoath Flesh
Plaguebearer Flesh
Ork Flesh

Skeleton Horde
Aggaros Dunes
Creed Camo

Gore-grunta Fur
Wyldwood
Warp Lightning

Games Workshop Citadel Contrast Paint - Colour List

2 new Primers (which seem to come in both spray and pot variety)

Wraith Bone
Grey Seer

There’s no clarity yet on why these new primers are so special or if/why they are required. I assume they are just white or grey with a bit of gloss sheen in them to help the wash run into the recesses and stay away from the highlights

The results are quite interesting and this will surely encourage more beginners to get into the hobby. As it should now be much simpler to get your armies tabletop ready.

~~There’s still no news on a release date but we hope to hear more as Warhammer fest Continues~~

Citadel Contrast Paints – Release Date

The release date has now been announced via Warhammer Community Website. The paints will be available to preorder on June 8th 2019 and will be available to buy on June 15th 2019.

Also, the image below is from the Warhammer Community team (so please stop digging at me for my typos)!

Games Workshop Citadel Contrast Paint - Release Date

As I said though, this does just seem like a pigment dense Shade. See my results below after applying several different coats of their existing shade paint to a mini.