John Blanche signs up with Army Painter

[rpraetor]

Army Painter has announced some additions to their new Fanatic paint line -- Master Class paints endorsed by John Blanche -- https://us.thearmypainter.com/pages/safety-test

 

This may have been a premature announcement for paints due in 2025.  Clicking the pre-order button on the web page doesn't work. Also, "safety-test" is an odd entry in a URL.

 

As a fan of Blanche's art work I am glad to see that he is still active in the hobby.

[redmapa]

Says 404 error to me, mightve been an internal error from army painter as in someone published the page too early.

 

A Blanchitsu inspired color line sounds great, John is an absolute genius.

Edited Tuesday at 11:37 PM by redmapa

[phandaal]

Army Painter's Fanatic line is awesome. Totally onboard for more colors from the mind of Blanche!

[MithrilForge]

I'm guessing we won't be seeing any fluro tones and pastels in there  ... Sombre Dark Colours supported by Dirty dark colours with a splash of Gritty dark Colours .... 

 

M. 

[rpraetor]

The URL works for me.  Note, however, the "US" and "safety test" in the URL -- may be a mistake by Army Painter and/or only viewable in the US.

I should have added -- They are predominantly dark colors, as would be expected from John Blanche

[Vesalius]

A lot more blues in the line than I was expecting.  They look pretty neat to me!

[Dudley Nightshade]

3 hours ago, rpraetor said:

The URL works for me.  Note, however, the "US" and "safety test" in the URL -- may be a mistake by Army Painter and/or only viewable in the US.

I should have added -- They are predominantly dark colors, as would be expected from John Blanche

@redmapa, For me, visiting from outside of the US, I first had to confirm that I wanted to go to the US store.

 

At the top of the screen, there is this bit:

Based on your location you have been directed to thearmypainter.com

Do you want to go to us.thearmypainter.com?

 

I had to click on the link to go to us.thearmypainter.com.

 

After that, I was able to overwrite the last part of the new URL with "/pages/safety-test" and see the page in question.

[Borbarad]

50 shades of red 

[Tyriks]

For those that can't open the link:

 

 

Some nice colors, there.

Edited 12 hours ago by Tyriks

[INKS]

Tempting but I've got an ivory and an ice yellow which isn't far from moonbeam yellow.

colors seem to be two different sets. 

I know the fanatic line from army paint is MILES above their old line. very good paint

 

[phandaal]

2 hours ago, Tyriks said:

For those that can't open the link:

 

snip

 

Some nice colors, there.

 

Some interesting colors here! This definitely looks like "Blanche!"

 

Those reds look good. Tainted Garden looks like a solid drab green, but I would like to see it in their green lineup to see the differences. Also would like to see how that gold color looks in real life.

[Evil Eye]

Zorn palette in a box, oh my! This looks rather nice, I've heard good things about the new Army Painter range so I might have to nab this...

[phandaal]

Just found this video:

 

 

So yeah, does look like they planned to reveal this in January.