Grey Knight Dreadnought

[Requiel]

Finished this beastie recently and just got around to photographing it. I painted myself into a bit of a corner and ended up using it as a test-bed for the new Citadel paints. The glazes are incredible, most of the shading on the armour and the power fist effect is done with layers of Gulliman Blue straight out of the pot. Jury is still out on the silver, I need to do some more figures from primer to really get a grip on those.

I have some alternate arms as well which aren't painted yet as I've been using it in this configuration for most of my games so far.

More pictures and a write up on my blog

 

[Zed]

are the glazes essentially a replacement for the old washes?

 

[Requiel]

No. They aren't washes. There is a spread of washes in the new range and they are now called shades. Those you use exactly as you used to use the old washes - slap them on to shade an area. Glazes are for painting on as a tint, either to change a colour temperature, add a tint or as part of a blended mix for various special effects like OSL. You paint them on thinly and build up layers. They are basically low-pigment density paint with very fine pigment grains in a very thin medium. Washes are much more pigment dense.

 

[Artanix]

how you finding the new paints req? I haven't got round to trying them yet (although they are sat on my desk) but my girlfriend says they're a big improvement... but, she does work for GW, so she would... but she also has a degree in fine art, so she might at least be talking a tiny amount of sense lol

 

[Requiel]

I've not had much of a play with them yet to be honest. I bought a few of each type but I've not had a chance to give them a proper go yet. I'm cautiously impressed with the new gold colours as GW haven't had a decent gold since Shining Gold in the tall hex pots. When they moved to the shorter pots, the new gold formula was rubbish and I've been using Vallejo's Oro Glorioso for a while as it's almost exactly the same paint as the old-school Shining Gold.

I doubt I'll get much use out of the dry paints as I try and avoid drybrushing as much as possible, likewise with the texture paints. I do have some scenery that needs doing so maybe I'll give them a go on that. The layers seem nice, thinner but much easier to handle than the old colours, the paints are much more consistent too - when you mix different paints now it's much easier to tell how the final blend will perform whereas before it was a bit of a lottery depending on which colours you put in - quite often I'd mix colours into a blend not to change the colour but to give it a better consistency.

 

[Zeus]

shining gold in the short-hex-pots i wasnt too keen on... but i've got on well with the Burnished Gold in short-hex-pots, for previously my blood angels and now my cygnar. kinda sad to be running out of it really
i also bought a spare pot of Necron Abyss while hobbycraft still had it, so i dont have to go changing the blue that i'm using for my cygnar, as that would be annoying... are there reasonable colour matches for most stuff though?

i need to buy some new paints soon anyway, so will be giving a lot of them a go soon probably! i'm no expert in paints at all though, so unless theres something obvious about them, i wont notice it. i'm very much of the view that if my army looks like an army when its in play, i dont much care if someone can pick up an individual model and go 'you know, the shading on this doesnt look right, and you've missed a bit here' .

 

[Requiel]

There's a colour match chart in the current White Dwarf which is also available as a PDF on the GW site. From what I've seen though, the colour matching between the old and new ranges isn't very reliable. Some colours seem to be very close - the reds and most of the metallics for example - while others (like most of the blues) are way off. I'd use the chart as a way to figure out which of the new paints is closest but not for actual colour matching.