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Vallejo "blob test": https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ddvq0MgqdkQ/?stkn=MXc5ZjE4YnB1aDU3NA== At this point the whole OMGZ ONE THICK COAT hype is comical..

There. Is. NO. Such. Thing. As. LIQUID PIGMENT. It does not exist.

I was in London last month, and went to the GW at Tottenham Court Road to pick up some hobby supply orders for a few friends, they were out of most useful washes and colors. I inquired about the reason and the guy told me they were in the middle of a paint rebranding (Citadel to Warhammer) which was impacting restocking availability. I am guessing the priority was producing the newer range at the time, and now they will produce the old paints with the new labels to refill the racks. But then, this is GW, you never know. They may purposefully make the old line scarce to sell you the new one at a markup. That's really not beyond them..

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdrMwIxpFkj/?stkn=bzluampnaGw0ZzAw ProAcryl self leveling, btw..

I can recommend GSW Opaque Color range Blazing Yellow as a good fairly opaque yellow if you don't mind losing some saturation as a tradeoff. 4:19 for yellow

Basically..

I would have thought me disagreeing with a price point and arguing against it would be the part of my entire argument that people who look forward to buying these paints would find most productive and agreeable.. but 40K gonna 40K I guess. Enjoy your +150% more expensive IONIC paints :)

I don't want them to be bad. From my point of view they are overpriced done-befores that are probably not aimed at me and come in terrible pots that will cause them to dry out. If someone finds use out of them and it facilitates more people to get into the hobby, that is not a bad thing for me. I just can't stand the disagreeable marketing around them.

I am really apalled to see that people are surprised by self leveling paints in 2026. I am particularly equal parts entertained and enraged by Louise, who is a professional miniature painter, showing it off as if it is a GW novelty: Ammo by Mig's IONIC Smart Color paints have done this for two years now. It is not sorcery, it is most likely because there is self leveling gel medium and possibly some acrylic flow improver in the paint. And there are downsides to this: 1. The paint will fight you about staying where you want it to when you thin it down. That is EXACTLY why people found it difficult to glaze with the Tone Pro paints, very very probably. 2. The paint does not take to adding water very well and tend to break up on a wet palette (as reported by many influencers already) and this is possibly the reason why they had to come up with the new mediums to thin it with 3. The gel medium, when mixing paints, will greatly decrease the value of your color, ie. desaturate it. That is also probably why the range was prepared with a lot of mid tones, and not for mixing. 4. They will be to airbrush with (do not take well to thinning, gel will cause clogging and spiderwebbing, pain in the ass to clean afterwards) 5. They will probably mix badly with paints from other brands, or the normal Citadel line. For reference, check out Scale75 which also uses gel medium (but not for self leveling); when mixed with a liquid acrylic paint will likely cause it to gum up in consistency, if that experience is anything to go by. TLDR version: This is a double edged sword and not sorcery.

Being pigmented does not impede with glazing, most painters who talk about how 'pigmented' a paint is does not know what they are talking about. Most of our hobby paints are note ven a fraction of how pigmented artists acrylics are yet they glaze perfectly. The issue is the binder and more importantly fillers that hobby paints use to achieve opacity. :cuss: opacity, by the way. The weird armamanent race towards trying to get the MOST OPAQUE PAINT EVER is actually ruining vibrancy. The Army Painter fanatic line is a huge culprit in this trend, for example. The entire 'I want a yellow that covers in one coat' crowd simply drives me crazy. You don't want that, because that will only give you a desaturated bismuth yellow with a lot of titanium white mixed into it. Just learn to paint a vibrant yellow over ochre. Stop ruining paints for the rest of us..

On the plus side, it will probably be time for things like our beloved Baal Predators and Furioso Dreadnoughts to be moved to Legends in time for the release of new kits, and then the power of Blood Angels will be where it was always meant to be. Not that GW would ever do something like that to sell models. Just coincidence.

This does not exist, and it never will unless you are willing to sacrifice lightfastedness and use dyes instead of pigments. Also, the entire video feels like a paid infomercial.

That's because it's yellow. It's supposed to do that. Even bismuth yellow will only cover so much. It's the way yellow pigments work, and nothing in the world will change that.

Printing and then playtesting the codex is peak game design.

The kind of reply I was expecting was, "Yeah, that sounds pretty stupid. Let's not be stupid. We are already paying up the ass for the models. Let's tell GW to stop this horse:cuss: and make the rules free, with our wallets." I was probably expecting too much.