Has anyone used Coat D'Arms Bright Gold?

[Razblood]

Hi guys,

 

Just wondering if anyone else has used Coat D'Arms Bright Gold?

 

If so, have you noticed that it is exactly the same colour and tone as the "new" Liberator Gold from GW but around half the price with 50% more in the pot.

 

Thoughts?

[JeffTibbetts]

From what I know about Coat D'Arms, they're the same formulas as the old GW paints. I used those old paints, and all the golds were garbage in my experience. If this is like the old one, I'd personally avoid it. The formula, pigments and consistency of the new GW paint lines are, again my opinion, much much better. I haven't used them, but that just brought back some bad memories of milky, separating golds, etc. 

[Razblood]

The Bright Gold is very different from the old GW Golds, bar the 2nd Ed. Shining Gold which was the greatest Gold paint GW ever had the privelage of selling.

Bask in it's magnificence - Not my hand, nor my pot :P

Back to Bright Gold though , as far as quality and consistency go it is pretty much identical to the Liberator Gold, I've had Bright Gold for about 3 years and it hasn't seperated on me once unlike all of GW's current Golds

I agree that the Coat D'Arms range has some serious issues at times (hell I had a whole pot of Magic Metal dry out after only being opened once!), but when they get it right they do some awesome paints, you also need to remember that HMG make P3 paints too and I hear a lot less complaints about them

After comparing the two Golds however I am sriously convinced that HMG are the manufacturers of the new Citadel range too, because there is no way GW shelled out for a manufaturing plant and hired a bunch of chemists , which would agin lead into the idea that the new paints are the old paints in disguise

[JeffTibbetts]

I'm no chemist, but I can tell the new paints, at least some of them, are very different from the old ones. I'm sure some are similar and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the Layer ones are basically the same as the old ones, but the bases and washes are different. 

 

One of the easiest ways to tell is the fact they taste different. Gross, I know, but I lick my brushes more than I should. Old habits die hard. 

[Razblood]

Preaching to the choir :lol:

 

Except the first Wash Set (Devlan, Badab and the like) as the first run of those really stank and so was going nowhere near my mouth.

[Stercus]

The Bright Gold is very different from the old GW Golds, bar the 2nd Ed. Shining Gold which was the greatest Gold paint GW ever had the privelage of selling.

Bask in it's magnificence :wub: - Not my hand, nor my pot :P

Back to Bright Gold though , as far as quality and consistency go it is pretty much identical to the Liberator Gold, I've had Bright Gold for about 3 years and it hasn't seperated on me once unlike all of GW's current Golds :lol:

I agree that the Coat D'Arms range has some serious issues at times (hell I had a whole pot of Magic Metal dry out after only being opened once!), but when they get it right they do some awesome paints, you also need to remember that HMG make P3 paints too and I hear a lot less complaints about them :tu:

After comparing the two Golds however I am sriously convinced that HMG are the manufacturers of the new Citadel range too, because there is no way GW shelled out for a manufaturing plant and hired a bunch of chemists , which would agin lead into the idea that the new paints are the old paints in disguise :ph34r:

I've still got most of a pot of that one. It gets so much use I'm going to be gutted when it runs out.

[Razblood]

I know what you mean, I transferred mine to a dropper and thinned it with Glaze Medium to spread it a bit further, got about half a bottle left :(

[Daevyll]

I still have half of a pot like that as well! 

 

But, nostalgia aside, imo Vallejo's Liquid Gold trumps all others handily, old and new.

[Lemainus]

I'm a huge fan of DecoArt Metallics and Army Painter line of stuff. I used Worn Penny and Gold for highlighting - no complaints from me! Coat d'Arms is fun for nostalgia, IMO - I started in 3rd Edition, so revisiting some of the palettes that got me started painting always makes me happy. (Even though, as has been noted already, there are superior paints on the market.)