Mixing the highly pigmented Citadel Foundation Paints with standard Citadel Colours also creates a more potent basecoat colour that will cover a miniature with fewer coats. By simply mixing these two ranges of paint, you instantly expand the colour reach of the 18 Citadel Foundation Paints through the roof.

Citadel Foundation Paints are designed
to mix with Citadel Colours.

For this article, we've mixed up a whole bunch of paint swatches using Citadel Foundation and Citadel Colour Paints to help prove our point as well as showcase the myriad range of hues you can create with these exciting new paints.

THE FORMAT

On each linked page below, we explore some of the colour possibilities of each one of the 18 Citadel Foundation Paints. First, we've mixed each one at a 1:1 ratio with Chaos Black (shades), Codex Grey (tones), and Skull White (tints) to cover the basics of colour theory. After that, we evenly mixed each Citadel Foundation Paint with three different sets of Citadel Colours that we believe would work well as a basecoat, mid-tone, and highlight group. In the end, we had a strip of colours like the picture above for each Citadel Foundation Paint. For those number crunchers out there, that makes for a grand total of 216 mixing samples on the following pages.

Click a Citadel Foundation Paint colour in the navigation graphic below to explore the wacky world of colour! Perhaps your next army's colour scheme lurks on the pages that follow...