Spikey Bits reported on October 7 that Games Workshop’s webstore has flagged 25 Contrast paints and Contrast Medium for removal from its online range. Games Workshop has not commented. Until it does, this is unconfirmed, and there are two quite different explanations.
What’s reported
The pots on Spikey Bits’ list include Space Wolves Grey, Apothecary White, Blood Angels Red, Iyanden Yellow, Black Templar, Guilliman Flesh, Snakebite Leather, Wyldwood, and Magos Purple, along with Contrast Medium. Spikey Bits notes that many of the 25 came from the 2022 Contrast expansion.
The relabel explanation
In March, Games Workshop announced that Citadel Colour is becoming Warhammer Colour. It said the paints themselves are “the exact same,” Contrast included, and that the new labels would appear in stores “over the next few weeks and months.” Retiring old-label listings and bringing the same colours back under new Warhammer Colour labels would look exactly like this from the outside. If that’s what’s happening, nothing changes on your paint table.
The cut explanation
The other reading is that GW is trimming slower sellers to make room as Tone Pro arrives. Tone Pro adds 150 paints, with pre-orders opening Saturday, October 10 and shelves on October 24. Spikey Bits notes that GW has said Tone Pro sits on top of the existing range rather than replacing Contrast, but a new line can still squeeze older pots off the rack.
What to do now
Nothing has been confirmed. If your army scheme depends on one Contrast colour from the list, a backup pot is reasonable. Clearing shelves isn’t, because panic buying is how old paints end up on resale sites at silly prices. We’ll update this story when Games Workshop says which pots, if any, are actually going away.
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