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Retro unboxing: 1994 Citadel Colour Paint Set - SEALED!

Midwinter Minis

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Will the paint still work after almost 10,000 days? Is this the most important paint set in hobby history? Will I actually paint a Space Marine?! Let's find out!

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20 Comments

@MidwinterMinis Creator 6 years ago Pinned

Haha, paint mixer goes BRRRRRR.

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@richamaru5217 6 years ago

I want a remaster of hero quest...

@Pixeleyes00 6 years ago (edited)

Having a box this bright and colorful with the words;
"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war."
is such a powerful aesthetic I can't get over it.

@metalsmith3234 6 years ago

In the neon brightness of the near past, there was only oversaturated paints

@DaiMongar 6 years ago

"So I painted the base with Goblin Green, which was the style at the time."

@DrMoostoffeleesCowMD 6 years ago

Games Workshop had better send him some sick stuff for that 5 pounds.

@anjinmr 6 years ago

"These little dudes have waited 26 years for a paint job" really hit me.

@RockSplitter 6 years ago

A sacred relic from the Dark Age of Technology.

@Gneric-Knight 6 years ago

Somewhere, in some warehouse, there is an official Genestealer costume collecting dust . Free him from his purgatory and let him fulfill his purpose once again

@alberich3099 6 years ago

THe Chaos warrior has one black one red glove, because one is a "leather"-glove the other is a armoured glove in the same style as the breastplate.

@docterfantazmo 6 years ago

Grandpa: Then you'd base your model after painting it, as was the style at the time.

@MiniatureMasterClass 6 years ago (edited)

I really wanna know what happens to that 5 quid mail offer.

@TheHobbyLockin 6 years ago

looks down and sees i'm wearing socks and shorts

I feel personally attacked

@Donmegamuffin 6 years ago

5:36 PLEASE keep us updated if anything happens to that bit of post please! Would love to see the outcome :)

@jwchampagne1 5 years ago

Acrylic paints were such a revelation. You could thin them, mix them, try all kinds of experiments, discover all kinds of tricks. The hobby owes as much to the paint formulators as it does to the mini sculptors for what it has achieved today.

@alexanderking9462 6 years ago

"I vibrated until my fingers were numb"

@DJCPreston 6 years ago

Watching this has actually made me realise why I paint the way I do: using far smaller brushes then now recommended, and taking such slow “neat” strokes, an innate distrust of blending on my miniatures, and so on. I’m still painting the way the 90s taught me to. Thanks for the great nostalgia trip, and weird realisation.

@evilpigeonsify 6 years ago

I want to see the look on the mail handler's face when they open that package

@japandave3871 6 years ago

Back when the grim darkness of the future was portrayed by lawn ornaments.

@unclewyrmwood 6 years ago (edited)

I really dig these retro mini unboxings/painting. In Russia, back in the nineties, we had a line of toy soldiers called Битвы Фэнтези (Fantasy Battles). The company who made them obviously got really inspired by (or stole ideas from) the early Warhammer, they even made space orcs with guns. These bulky old miniatures really take me back to my childhood, even thought I didn't know about Warhammer until about 2004.