Citadel dry paint colors for creative miniature highlights

Citadel dry paint is one of the easiest ways to add sharp, bright highlights to your miniatures without complicated techniques. These paints have a thick texture that loads perfectly onto a dry brush, allowing fast, controlled strokes that instantly reveal raised edges, volumes, and worn surfaces. Whether you are finishing a hero model, adding contrast to armor panels, or bringing out textures in fur, stone, or cloth, this collection gives you everything you need to improve your painting results with minimal effort. The citadel dry paint range has become a favorite among miniature hobbyists because it delivers results quickly while keeping the process fun and approachable.

What’s in this collection

This selection includes the full range of Games Workshop dry paints in 12 ml pots, each formulated for reliable, repeatable performance. You’ll find essential light tones like Praxeti White, Terminatus Stone, and Longbeard Grey, ideal for sharp edge highlights on armor, cloth folds, and textured surfaces. The range continues with richer colors such as Etherium Blue, Hoeth Blue, and Lucius Lilac, giving you options to brighten magical effects, gemstones, psychic glows, or vibrant fabric edges.

Warm colors also appear throughout the collection, including Astorath Red, Ryza Rust, and Eldar Flesh, each designed to bring life to natural materials, skin tones, or weathering effects. For metallic textures, colors like Golden Griffon and Golgfag Brown enhance gold, bronze, and aged metal surfaces with a subtle, realistic shine. Specialty hues such as Skink Blue, Niblet Green, and Nurgling Green help you create high-contrast highlights on creatures, alien skin, or fantasy armor.

Every paint in this series offers a semi-dry consistency that grips the tips of your bristles just enough to give you control. The result is a smooth, predictable highlight that enhances contrast across your models with clean transitions. With citadel dry paint, you spend less time fine-tuning blends and more time enjoying the creative process.

Benefits, uses, and practical tips

The main advantage of using citadel dry paint is speed. Instead of layering multiple thin coats to reach a highlight, dry brushing gives immediate results with only a few passes. Many hobbyists rely on these paints when they want to complete tabletop-ready armies quickly or when they need striking contrasts that photograph well for social media or display pieces.

• Load a brush lightly, wipe most of it on a paper towel, then sweep across raised areas until the highlight appears.
• Use lighter tones like Praxeti White or Terminatus Stone for crisp edges.
• Layer two or three dry colors to create depth without complicated blending.
• Apply Ryza Rust or Golden Griffon over dark metals to simulate weathering.
• Combine Etherium Blue, Hoeth Blue, or Lucius Lilac for magical or glowing effects.

You can also use citadel dry paint for fast zenithal accents, pre-shading, terrain finishing, and large-model edge definition. Beginners appreciate how forgiving the technique is, while advanced painters enjoy how quickly it pushes contrast across surfaces that would otherwise require time-consuming blending.

At SprayGunner, these paints ship fresh and fast from our Florida warehouse, helping you keep momentum on Warhammer armies, RPG characters, display models, dioramas, and terrain pieces. No matter what you paint, citadel dry paint gives you a quick, enjoyable way to add clarity, contrast, and personality to your miniatures.

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