Games Workshop changed their paints - And they didn't tell us

finally featured in a Squidmar video at 1:40 (my leg) Thanks for the collab guys was super fun

The difference in the Khorne red was immediately noticeable.

If only they would change the pots too 🙃🙃🙃

Balthasar gold seems to come in a different color every time they make a new batch.

A shop owner in my area wasn't able to get vallejo model color. He told me that many pigments were imported from Russia. Due to the war and the sanctions it wasn't possible to import the needed pigments. Therefore vallejo came up with the new model colors. Could be the same reason with game workshop, that they had to switch their pigment supplier.

Honestly, the new Khorn Red looks more like mephiston red. Khorn Red was always this wonderful rich, dark-dried, old, blood red color (great for dark rust).

That opening turned me into Homer Simpson “It’s not quite as vibrant” Me: “Oh that’s bad” “But it’s got better coverage” Me: “Oh but that’s good!”

Come back next time for the thrilling conclusion of what is the Rhinox Hide alternative.

Some time ago, a product manager was interviewed about Games Workshop's business practices regarding their products. He openly stated that they were targeting beginners and casuals rather than pros and longtime hobbyists, which potentially explains why changes were made to their paints to favor the former group at the expense of the latter.

Before the updated the washes to be weaker around 2020 - 2022 they changed the Agrax Earth Shade to be darker and less brown. Ive still got a old pot that ive been having to colour match

Fell in love with Citadel’s Calthan Brown. It’s the best colour I’ve ever seen for painting horses. Of course they discontinued it…

Agrax earth shade is terrible now. It’s so glossy. There used to be a matte one and a gloss one. I feel they got rid of that distinction and combine them

Well I'm continuing to switch all of my Citadel to "Two Thin Coats" "Vallejo" and "Pro Acryl."

I noticed a similar thing with mechanicus standard grey. Which is frustrating because the paint had a bluish hue that I would use to paint the grey-blue of krieg. Also tell me that company that has the old rhinox hide!!

Ugh i went out and bought a nuln oil a couple months ago and its absolute garbage now and costs more since its in a bigger pot 😡

I work for Jotun. Batches change all the time depending on material price. The formula might be the same but depending on the prices ingredients can come from different sources which can alter a batch

Colorist Worker here. ( In the packaging industry, btw colorist is the same work in every industry). To create color u need a few things but most importantly : - resin & - pigment. Due to increasing tension in the global market worldwide (east europe country for example can't provide thing like in the past) , industry have to adapt and sometimes change supplier for their pigment. We try our best to make this change as subtle as it can be but sometimes batch can't be the exactly same as before ( red tone are particulary sensitive to this kind of change, including brown redish tone). Also pigment can interact differently with the light,( it's an important point here, if our eyes can see colour it's because of the light reflection on this colour in our eyes), this phenomen can cause Metamerism ( i will let you google that).

ive ran into the same problem with wazdakka red. My old pot is rapidly running out and i still got my orks to finish. oh no.

Yeah, I've noticed that the newer contrast paints have been off lately. Mainly that they keep separating, meanwhile my older ones stay fine

This is a big reason why I've moved over to dedicated artist paints. There's a lot more information with pigment info/opaqueness right on the pot/tube and you get a lot more paint for the same money as dedicated miniature paints.