O M G….
These two colours totally blew me away.
Especially Mephiston Red.
As you may know, Citadel/Games Workshop has updated their paint range with new paints.
For many, many years, the colour red has been notoriously hard to paint due to the low amount of pigment.
Since red pigment is generally a bit more expensive, maybe this was a way to bring each pot of paint to bear its own cost.
However, with the last update we saw foundation paints such as Mechrite Red with its better coverage due to higher grade of pigments.
The problem was that the paint wasn’t really close to Blood Red but has a more purple-based tone in it.
So, you had to paint it over with Blood Red which in itself had a very low pigment count.
This all resulted in layers and layers, because if you splashed on Blood Red you got uneven coats which looked really weird.
NO MORE!
The Mephiston Red introduces both a colour more close to Blood Red and it has great coverage as well.
I would say that you need two, maybe three coats of watered down paint to make it cover well.
And you can splash it on as the paint doesn’t give you that uneven coat anymore.
I finally understand what people mean when they talk about speed painting!
It’s a joy to paint red nowadays.
And from a business perspective it makes sense, I think.
Here you will have people not shying away from painting red.
So, this will not hamper any sales that people are maybe thinking of, but stalling because of the difficulty to paint red.
It’s been a pain to paint red.
Not any more.
Carroburg Crimson…
Here you have a mix between Devlan Mud and Baal Red when looking at the colour.
It’s an improvement.
I never used Baal Red as a wash, and Devlan Mud was ok, but I ended up using Badab Black instead to get a good contrast.
With Carroburg Crimson I get a nice shade/wash colour–wise, and I get that nice contrast with the colour red to make a clear distinction between the red armour and the recesses.
The only downside, and I think it is a downside, is that it stains the base paint as it doesn’t flow into the recesses as the old washes did.
This means you need to touch up a bit, but with these nice base paints, who cares?
I loved both the base and the shade.
Soon, I will try the glace Bloodletter and we’ll see what it has to offer.
Meanwhile, go and get yourselves some pots of Mephiston Red and Carroburg Crimson.
‘Cause you’re worth it.
Until next time.
The Sons of Sanguinius 