Citadel Paints

Contrast Paint
Base, shade and highlight in one coat with Contrast paints.

Contrast paints give you a cleanly shaded paint in moments and are perfect if you are looking an easy way to tackle difficult to paint colours. There is a Contrast paint for pretty much anything from flesh to skulls, non-metallic metal to tinted whites

Contrast is an incredibly powerful paint range. It is recommended to get started painting purely with contrast using the contrast method, you will be able to accomplish some remarkable effects by mixing it with existing paint ranges.

Base Paint
Citadel Base paints are high quality acrylic paints specially formulated for base coating your miniatures quickly and easily. They are designed to give a smooth matt finish over black or white undercoats with a single layer.

Shade Paint
Washing is a technique that brings out all of the subtle details and textures on your model using Citadel Shades. Formulated to flow into recesses, Citadel Shades provide natural, effective shading and define details on your miniatures.

Layer Paint

Layering is the method by which painters use increasingly lighter colours to create highlights on raised areas of models / miniatures.
Citadel layer paints are formulated with a certain opacity so they can be applied over Base paints and each other to get great results. 


Dry Brush Paint

Drybrushing is an excellent technique for capturing raised details and creating natural highlights on models, especially those with a lot of small details or sharp edges. Citadel Dry Paints are designed to make this much loved method of painting as straightforward as possible.

Glaze Paint

Glazing is an advanced technique that many experienced painters use to great effect on their miniatures, primarily to intensify an area of colour. Citadel Glazes are special washes that can make the basecoats and layers on your models really stand out, or unify areas on your models where the colours might otherwise be a little too bright or the layering too stark.


Technical Paint

The technical paint range designed specifically for creating unique effects on Citadel miniatures.
A miniature is never truly finished until it has been based. Citadel Texture Paint is the perfect way to ensure all the bases in your army have brilliant, consistent finishes.