Alternative to Games Workshop Citadel Corax White Spray Paint

[Uprising]

My spray can of Games Workshop Citadel Corax White Spray Paintis is running low.  I do not want to pay the going price of $50+ for a can of spray paint as it is discountinued.  Does anyone have a similar white spray can that works well?  I am using it for basecoats.  Thank you and take care.  

[Urauloth]

There's no direct equivalent to the (very useful) off-white of Corax as far as I know. You might have to switch to a pure white, or go a step darker - Colour Forge have a very pale grey (Ashen Grey) which is comparable to Ulthuan, I believe it's lighter than Grey Seer.

[Uprising]

Looking at there old conversion chart, it looks like Matt White would work.  Is this correct I wonder?  

[Sonder76]

You could get a really cheap airbrush from amazon. They do basic ones that are hand held and run of a recharge battery. With that you could just spray Corax White from the pots.

 

I have a friend that uses one and they are really good for the basics of base coating in batches. 

 

The one in the image is close to what im talking about and costs about £25 in the UK.

 

Search for Mini Airbrush Kit.

 

 

[Cleon]

I use Ghoul grey as my go to 'light' underocoat (except LI scale stuff that is going to be heavily in contrast) - it's not as pure a white as Corax was but it's a good primer for an off white base. Based on my experiences with colour forge (Grey, black, red and brown) I'd have no hesitation picking up their generic matt white, but I've not used that one myself.

[lansalt]

The White Scars spray primer works great in my experience. 

[WBRBloom]

On 9/7/2025 at 9:26 AM, Sonder76 said:

You could get a really cheap airbrush from amazon. They do basic ones that are hand held and run of a recharge battery. With that you could just spray Corax White from the pots.

 

I have a friend that uses one and they are really good for the basics of base coating in batches. 

 

The one in the image is close to what im talking about and costs about £25 in the UK.

 

Search for Mini Airbrush Kit.

 

 

Yeah, I'll second that. If you want to 'match' the corax white effect, your go to solution would be with a cheap airbrush (if you don't have one already) and the paint out of the pot.

 

Alternatively, you can try the Duncan Rhodes 'Trooper White' which is the Corax White equivalent and Duncan promotes these as the GW replacement/equivalents (again, the application using an airbrush stands):

 

Conversion-Chart-Wave-1_2023_01.pdf

[Firedrake Cordova]

If you're considering the airbrush route, Vallejo Primers Grey is a very light grey (it dries a bit lighter than it looks like it will when looking at the bottle), and available in 60ml & 200ml bottles. You might need to mix in a bit of their white primer to get an exact match, but you can make up a bottle of it.

[Brother Carpenter]

I recently experimented with a light gey primer from a local diy store,

takes a littl;e longer to dry, but coverage is good, not too thick.

and just 8 euros a can.

[Brother Anderson]

On 9/7/2025 at 9:26 AM, Sonder76 said:

You could get a really cheap airbrush from amazon.

 

If you're willing to venture into AliExpress you can pick them up for a tenner!

[Cadmus Tyro]

I would go with Tamiya white fine surface primer. I use the light grey stuff and it goes on really nice and smooth. Small cans compared to GW though! Seems to go a long way.

 

I’ve moved away from airbrush primer, they’re not durable enough IMHO. Particularly for tanks/models that may need to be masked up.

 

Cadmus 

[Sky Potato]

White Scar spray cans are a huge improvement from Corax White in terms of ease of use and finish. I always used to get a chalky effect with Corax and it would quite often be gritty or grainy. None of that with White Scar, where it just leaves a lovely smooth bright white basecoat.

 

I have Sacred Rose Sisters of Battle, where I originally used Corax White as the basecoat colour. All I do is prime in White Scar spray and then use a couple of thin coats of Corax White from the pot. Which is technically the best way to do it anyway, as it means you can cover up any points that didn’t get fully covered by the spray and it gives you a more consistent error fixing when you make mistakes on the armour - which are really common with white armour.

Everything else I prime with white has made no noticeable difference going from Corax White to White Scar.

 

For some reason, I’ve struggled with other brands of white spraypaint. The Tamiya stuff comes in expensive and tiny cans, and both cans I used gave quite a rough finish. They also both seemed to spray as though they weren’t fully mixed, or where the paint seemed to separate from the medium when on the model - despite shaking like the cans owed me money. The Colour Forge can I tried seemed way more finicky than other Colour Forge cans I’ve used in the past - I’ve had some great finishes out of the can, and I’ve had some really rough finishes as well. Admittedly, I’ve only tried the one can of the white Colour Forge stuff, but my perception is that the White Scar is the easiest stuff to work with that gives pretty consistently good results.