Citadel Paint App

The Citadel Paint App is a smartphone application designed to promote the Citadel paint line as part of the ongoing effort by Games Workshop to modernize their outreach approach.

Functions

The app is primarily geared towards newbies in the Warhammer community, giving basic tutorials on types of paints, the basic process to obtain display level minis, and guides on how to replicate the paint schemes you see on the boxes/sales page of your minis.

/tg/ Review

The problem with the app is it is largely only useful to new hobbyists, containing no advanced and little known techniques which are prevalent on places like Youtube outside the official GW channel. It contains no info on the most important thing for new painters, which is assembly and the removal of mold lines, and instead just focuses on paint. It also contains basic info on obtaining certain basic color schemes. If you are wanting to use a nontraditional color scheme (for example Daemonettes in a color other than pastel pink and black) the app is of reduced value, although you can use the guide for another miniature instead if one matches your desired scheme. It obviously focuses entirely on selling Citadel paints, and there is absolutely no advice for using colors not available straight out of the pot which, while avoiding a accidentally advertising competitors, doesn't help painters looking to mix their Citadel paints to obtain new shades. As a result a guide for red for example recommends five different Citadel paints to graduate the color when two and some white to mix is adequate. There is no support for out of production models or many still in production older models (a worrying sign to sone), and a strong bent towards advertising new minis via paint guides. The newly released Made To Order minis, all Tolkien property minis, and the Boxed Games such as Blood Bowl are also absent. While a guide exists for basing, it is very basic and bent mostly towards 40k and only environments that can be replicated with Citadel Technical Paint. All example models are in one long alphabetical list rather than allowing sorting by game, let alone faction. One of the worst problems however, the one that is a dealbreaker for many Warhammer Long(neck)beards, is that the app only shows the current names of paint colors, continuing the frustration over name changes. Not only this, but there are multiple color swatches with different names that use the exact same paints, causing further confusion.

For what it does, it excels. Great for new painters, Citadel purists, and people wanting their minis to be identical to the Eavy Metal example schemes. For all else, Youtube paint guides, blogs of skilled painters, Dakkadakka, and WIP threads on /tg/ are where to go.

See Also

• Citadel Paint: The App on iTunes
• WIP