Citadel Technical paints are special-effect tools for when you want minis to look real—blood, slime, rust, glow, dirt, and textured bases. They’re designed to add quick, dramatic finishing touches that normal paints can’t replicate. Use them last to dial up the story: messy, weathered, glowing, or downright disgusting (in the best way).
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Citadel Colour Technical paints are the finishing kit for painters who want more than “nice and tidy.” These are specialist formulas made to create effects you can’t easily fake with standard paints: crackled earth bases, gritty textures, rust and corrosion, glossy blood, toxic slime, spectral glows, verdigris, and all the other little details that sell the illusion.
They’re perfect for adding character fast. Splash a bit of Blood for the Blood God on a blade, streak rust into armour joints, add a glowing warp effect to lenses, or build a textured base that looks like your model actually lives somewhere other than “a black circle.” Technicals also play nicely with other steps—use them over a painted surface, then tidy edges or lightly highlight around the effect to make it pop even more.
Best practice: apply them near the end of your paint job, follow the pot’s intended use (some are meant to be thick), and test on a spare base or bit first—because “experimental sludge” is fun, but not on your centrepiece model.
Frequently Asked Question
Technical paints are for special effects—textures, gore, slime, rust, glow effects, and basing finishes that standard paints aren’t designed to do.
Usually near the end, after your main colours are done. Effects and basing are easier (and cleaner) once the model is mostly finished.
Most of the time, no. Many are formulated to be used as-is (especially texture and crackle paints). If you need more control, use the right medium rather than lots of water.
Apply them with an older brush or a sculpting tool, don’t overwork them, and let them dry fully. Thicker application generally means a stronger texture/crackle effect.
Yes. Once dry, you can shade, drybrush, or highlight textures, and you can tidy around gore/slime/glow effects to make them look sharper and more intentional.