Getting Started
-Citadel Colour
-Foundation Paints

Preparation
-Tool Safety
-Painting Tools -Assembly

Basic Techniques
-Basic Painting Tips -Five Techniques -Underneath it all -Mixing Foundations -Quick Painting

Advanced Techniques
-Painting Vehicles
-Painting Terrain
WHAT ARE CITADEL COLOUR PAINTS?
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CITADEL COLOURS. You've prepared and assembled your Games Workshop miniatures, and now it's time to bring them to life with a great-looking paint scheme. The massive line of Citadel Colours is here for just such a purpose. These vibrant paints give you all the colours you'll need to paint your Games Workshop miniatures up to a standard that will make you proud to display and game with them.

Citadel Colours are designed for shading and highlighting tabletop miniatures.
The Citadel Colour range, formulated by Games Workshop in conjunction with the industry's foremost manufacturer of artists' materials, sets the benchmark in terms of colour intensity and flow properties among paints used on miniatures. Primary consideration was given to the strength of colour and the draw quality — both of which facilitate fine detail painting and blending — and it is for these reasons that we can boast that Citadel Colours remain the finest miniature paints in the world. Our confidence in that statement also comes from the fact that Citadel Colours are used by many award-winning painters whose works adorn the pages of hobby and modelling magazines the world over.

Citadel Colour paints are non-toxic, water-based acrylic paints specially formulated to cover Citadel miniatures. These properties mean that you don't need any harsh cleaners or thinners for your paints — water is all you'll need. The Citadel Colours have been crafted so that they are ideal for highlighting and shading your miniatures, as the range includes lighter and darker shades of pretty much all the colours. Now, you can give your miniatures added depth with ease, since each basecoat color has a shading color and a highlight color associated with it. For example, if you want a strong green, you could use Goblin Green highlighted with Scorpion Green and shaded with Snot Green. You can see this green color progression in the images below.
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Picture of a pot of Citadel Colour paint.Picture of a pot of Citadel Colour paint.METALLIC PAINTS. The Citadel Colours paint range also includes a set of excellent metallic paints. Citadel Colour metallics are water soluble, which means you don't need any messy thinners or solvents to clean your brushes, just water! Eight different metallic paints make up this portion of the Citadel Colour range. They include essential colors like gold, silver, bronze, and brass. These metallics are ideal for painting weapons and armor on all your miniatures without any hassle — just dip and paint.

Picture of a pot of Citadel Colour paint.Picture of a pot of Citadel Colour paint.INK WASHES. In addition to standard paints and metallic colours, the Citadel Colour paint range includes a series of ink washes. These washes are essentially highly pigmented paints in a liquid form. As such, Citadel Colour Inks are just the thing for shading your basecoats. Simply thin down the ink with a little water and paint it onto the miniature. The ink will flow into all the folds and recesses to create instant shading. Washes are also quite useful for tinting metallic colors, weathering effects, and several other techniques.
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