Citadel Charadon Granite

Located between the stone summit hotbeds tasca s demise and spearhead peak the granite citadel is a grand fortress held by the deldrimor dwarves a safe harbor in a deadly ocean of hostility the outpost here sells relief to weary adventurers.

Citadel charadon granite.

Citadel paint took several forms during this era often known by hobbyists as games workshop s red period largely because everything was painted red. So i scooped one up to see just how close. You can recognise a miniature from this time by the liberal use of the colour and more likely than not a bright green base. This website has model paint conversation charts for paints from different model hobby paints manufacturers for any scale models or miniatures.

The wooden parts got a basecoat of old charadon granite skavenblight dinge is close. I basecoated the wood with old citadel charadon granite skavenblight dinge is the closest though it s a lot less brownish. Citadel actually have a bunch of great new greys that i am just experimenting with now. The far left is p3 thornwood green.

The paints were a smash hit charadon granite is. I used warpaints dark tone ink nuln oil to shade the wood and metal. It was then simply dry brushed using more charadon granite. While the thornwood green is a shade lighter than the granite it is darker than the stormvermin fur.

Then i applied a wash of tap dark tone ink nuln oil. As a final touch i later mixed some vallejo white in with the citadel charadon granite and very lightly dry brushed this. In fact the purple mauve looking grey is citadel base. Bastion grey anthartic.

Here is the ultimate painting matrix comparing the games workshop citadel paints with every known equivalent. For the wood i applied the wash selectively into the recesses while the metal got an all over wash. Please note hex codes are all approximate double check before you get a batch of paint made up to match that colour. Click here to find a paint conversion chart for old citadel charadon granite.

In the bottle it looks super close to the old charadon granite. I drybrushed the wood with formula p3 bastion grey stormfiend grey is closest then added a brush highlight of bastion grey where needed. The middle is the old chardon granite and the far right is the new stormvermin fur.