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I can’t really differentiate between them in terms of their ease of use and effectiveness – both seem great. My initial feelings are that the paints are very good – both the Model Colour and Game Colour range. OK so I’ve been using the Vallejo paints for a couple of weeks, intermingled with some GW paints. The Vallejo Paints – My Initial Thoughts and Feelings I don’t want to dilute my paints uncessarily. Problem mitigation – Games workshopīy comparison, the fix for GW paint pots is to transfer them to dropper bottles! This is painfully slow to do, is messy, wastes loads of paint and typically requires you to dilute your paint so that it flows adequately to do a transfer. No matter, as I encounter the odd loose pad I just affix it again with a spot of super glue, using some tweezers to lower the pad into the top of the cap. Apart from being a bit messy, I’ve since found some of the pads didn’t stick (or where more just more attracted to the stickiness of the paint from the droppers). This wasn’t the best glue to use, as it turned out. I punched the foam pads out of 2mm crafting foam using a paper hole punch, and glued them in with some UHU glue. To head off any problems with my new Vallejo dropper bottles I spent an hour or so adding small foam pads to the inside of the dropper caps. I’ve not yet encountered this, but word on the street is that they can still get gummed up with dried paint since the seal between the cap and bottle is not always that great. Having to use something like a paint brush to extract paint from GW pots means that you then need to clean the paint off that thing, wasting yet more time and paint. With dropper bottles it’s super quick to get paint from them: – take the top off, a little squeeze, and put the top back. My last problem with Citadel paint pots is that they are slow to use vs a dropper bottle. The 24ml wash pots are the worst – they are so much more fluid that regular paint. If I knock over an open Games Workshop pot then, well, it’s a major disaster with paint everywhere. If I knock over an open dropper bottle (which is more likely given they have a higher centre of gravity than a 12ml GW pot) they I am likely to spill a little paint. On those days, I knock stuff over, bump into stuff and drop stuff. My painting desk collects lots of tiny bits of dried paint – I’m hoping that this problem is greatly reduced after spending some time with using almost exclusively Vallejo paints. A minor gripe, but a gripe none-the-less. If you are not careful you’ll find that paint bits get on your brush and on your models. When you look at older paint pots with lots of dried paint you realise just how much of your 12ml is wasted! Compounding this, if a pot accidently gets dried out because it didn’t close properly, then all the paint can be totally ruined. (Thinking about it, this was another catalyst that drove me to make the change). I’ve nearly stabbed myself many times with a screwdriver or file or whatever pointy thing I have to hand that I’m trying to use to gouge out the dried paint from the lid. Dried paint may chip off into your paint, and collect in your paint lids.Ĭleaning paint out of the rim of the lids is dangerous. Although I find this strangely satisfying – it makes a mess. You’ll find yourself pulling off strips of dried paint from around the rims. Note that this is a particular problem with buying second hand Games Workshop paint – older paints are often not in good condition, with some paints being especially bad for it (Corax White – I’m looking at you.) Dried paint – a right bugger to clean This accelerates your paints drying out.īy comparison, basically all the Vallejo paints I’ve had second hand have been in good condition. The biggest problem with the dried paint is that pots become more difficult to close, eventually not closing properly. It slows you down and wears on my patience (which is a precious and finite resource!) Dried paint – pots degrade over time In short – I don’t want to have to be careful when getting at the paint. If you are no especially careful at taking out paint, this dried paint will accumulate more quickly, No matter how careful you use you paints – this will happen. Paint gets dried around the rim of the pots as you take paint out of them, and it slowly builds up around the to edge, around the pot insides, and it dries in the rim of the pot lids. My beef with the Citadel pots is as follows: They are expensive (for just 12ml)įor the layer and base paints, Games Workshop pots contain 12ml of paint this compares poorly versus the 17ml bottles that The Army Painter Vallejo and many other brands have. Since I’ve been using the odd dropper bottle I’ve realised just how much better the dropper bottles are. The catalyst for making the change was simply that I hate the Games Workshop paint pots.