Vallejo Paint Set

Richy · Post by **Richy** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:13 pm

Darkson wrote:Isn't Coat D'Arms the "old" Citadel paint? (Old as in old mixture, not old as in being sat in a warehouse for years.)

Yes. Coat D'Arms used to make Citadel paints before they switched manufacturer a few years ago. Coat D'Arms still produce exactly the same colours as the old paints, generally with very similar names.

Gizzurd · Post by **Gizzurd** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 5:35 pm

True that. I still have Hex and even Round flip top pots from the late 80's early 90's. That's about 15 years. You're lucky if the new pots last more than 1 year before drying up.

BTW, Vallejo sells empty paint droppers. You can pop the dripper top out to pour in your one color/mix, though they cost ~$1 US though. I did find a distributor once that had similar bottles for .25 each, but they only sold in orders of 1000+

VIVA VALLEJO!!

Lahatiel · Post by **Lahatiel** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 3:39 am

Try Western Plastics (http://www.western-plastics.com/products1.shtml) and the 0.25oz Boston Round bottles with dropper tips and caps. They don't list prices online since the bottles/tips/caps are all technically sold separately and it all varies with quanitity, but just give them a call for a quote. I got that link from another painting site and ordered 100 bottles (with tips and caps) about 2 years ago. I don't remember exactly how much the total was, but I do know it was much, much closer to $0.25/bottle than $1, even with shipping included.

juck101 · Post by **juck101** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 2:42 pm

ok am getting the bug for new paint....

1. Right the amazing Vallejo colours are they just better becasue the consistancy is stronger - ie yellow classic crap GW colour. - that would explain a lot of people prefering them i guess.

2. Does the pigment allow you to mix in a different way? ie red classic colour that does not really mix with other colours, does the vallejo paint allow red and brown - or red and black even?

please give the secrets away to WHY better. must say post xmas think i will have to get the 60set of colours and try.

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 2:58 pm

i don't get what you mean by question 2 and the mixing pigments

juck101 · Post by **juck101** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 11:24 pm

er question 2.
Can you mix any colour with another and get a workable mixture. Good example is yellow and black normally make a nasty brown not the darker shade that would occur with real dyes. Maybe another example that you cant do with GW paint is mix purple into red - ends up on a figure a colour that cannot be highlighted.

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quick edit found example on net...
"http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/49/page/2"

ok dont have to read but "...I move on to a Liche/Warlock mixture. The Liche overpowers the Warlock Purple quite easily, so the first bright hilight is a 60/40 mixture of Warlock to Liche. "

Perfect example some colour if you mix 25% / 75% is still overpowered becasue of the pigment. White is actually good for this as highlight as is mega strong.

- think i may have lost people by now, but is vallejo any better than GW in this respect?

cheers if anyone can help

smokezombie · Post by **smokezombie** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:45 am

I've been out of modeling for a while.But after deciding to come back to the fold....... can't decide which range of vallejo to get!! the wargame fantacy range has some luminous looking pants in it

oh yea,,, my old GW round pot paints are still good ( after 10 years

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but need a good shake to get them working

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