There are no new kits, codexes, or boxed games in this week’s Warhammer Community Sunday Preview. The whole spotlight goes to Warhammer Tone Pro, the paint range Games Workshop unveiled in its Big Autumn Preview last month, and the gear built around it.
What Tone Pro is
Tone Pro is 30 new colours, each made in five numbered tones, for 150 paints in all. Tone 1 is the darkest and Tone 5 the lightest. An Ultramarines painter, for example, works up from Ultramar Blue 1 to Ultramar Blue 5.
Games Workshop says a single paint can basecoat, shade, glaze, highlight, and drybrush. It also claims strong first-coat coverage even on yellows and whites, and a smooth, self-levelling finish straight from the pot. Those are the maker’s claims, and we’ll test them at the table.
The mediums and brushes
Two mediums come with the paints. Shading Medium lowers pigment density without changing flow or finish, so any Tone Pro colour can be used as a shade or a glaze. Blending Medium slows drying time to make wet blending easier. There’s also a new set of four drybrushes, sized XS to L, with curved tips and tight bristles, meant to put paint where you want it and keep it off the rest of the model.
When and where
Demo paints have been available in Warhammer stores and independent hobby shops since Saturday, September 26 (October 3 in Japan), so you can try Tone Pro on a model before you buy. Games Workshop says the range goes on shelves on Saturday, October 24, when Warhammer stores will also hand out a Tone Pro collectable coin while stocks last.
Games Workshop’s preview does not give a pre-order date or prices. We’ll update this story when it does.
Also this week
On Warhammer TV, Loremasters takes a big-picture look at Age of Sigmar’s Forces of Destruction, How We Roll covers the Adeptus Custodes, and Tale of Four Gamers builds toward its next 1,000-point game on Thursday. Final-cut versions of the animated series Sigmar’s Toll and Pariah Nexus arrive on Friday, each as one unbroken episode. Warhammer Community is also teasing a miniatures reveal for Monday and more Tone Pro videos from community painters.
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