GW Paint Range Changes

So there's all kinds of rumors floating around about some major shake ups to Games Workshops paint range. Apparently the whole thing will be expanding from 73 paints to 144 paints. They will now be composed of Bases (foundation paint), Layers (the normal colors), Shades (aka washes), Dry (basically a thicker paint for dry brushing), Glazes (they're back again!), Texture (paint with sand in it), and Technical (liquid green stuff and friends). All the colors will be getting new names, so it'll get that much more complex trying to remember which paint your after. Prices are rumored to stay the same at this point.

One change most people were hoping for was an end to the current bottle design. Sadly this isn't going to happen. I don't find them that bad to use, but I will be sticking to using the Vallejo paints for the airbrush, as its much easier to load the airbrush with a dropper bottle than GW's paint catching design.

Apparently White Dwarf will be including a comparison chart in a future issue listing the old paints and their newer named counterparts. For example, Blood Red is becoming Wild Rider Red, Ultramarine Blue is Calgar Blue, Skull White is now White Scar.

So the new paint names are:

BASES 
Ceramite White
Averland Sun

Jokaero Orange
Mephiston Red
Khorne Red
Naggaroth Night
Daemonette Hide
Kantor Blue
Macragge Blue
Caledon Sky
Stegadon scale green
Incubi Darkness
Caliban Green
Waaaagh! Flesh
Castellan green
Death world forest
Zandri dust
Steel Legion Drab
Bugmans Glow
Ratskin Flesh
Mournfang brown
XV-88
Rhinox hide
Dryad bark
Mechanicus standard grey
Celestus grey
Abaddon Black (the only black in the range)
Rakarth flesh
The fang
Screamer pink
Leadblecher (metal)
Balthasar Gold (metal)
Screaming Bell (metal)
Warplock brown (metal)

LAYER
White Scar
Yriel Yellow
Flash gitz yellow
Troll slayer orange
Fire dragon bright
Evil sunz scarlet
Wild Rider red
Wazdakka red
Squig Orange
Xereus Purple
Genestealer Purple
Warpfiend Grey
Slaanesh Grey
Alaitoc blue
Hoeth blue
Altdorf guard blue
Calgar blue
Teclis blue
Lothern blue
Sotek green
Temple guard blue
Kabalite green
Sybarite green
Warpstone glow
Moot green
Warboss green
Skarsnik green
Loren Forest
Straken green
Nurgling green
Elysian green
Ogryn camo
Ushabti Bone
Screaming skull
Tallarn sand
Karak stone
Cadian fleshstone
Kislev Flesh
Bestigor flesh
Ungor flesh
Skrag brown
Deathclaw brown
Tau light Ochre
Balor brown
Zamesi brown
Doombull brown
Tuskigor fur
Gorthor Brown
Baneblade Brown
Dawnstone
Administratum grey
Eshin grey
Dark reaper
Thunderhawk blue
Skavenblight dinge
Stormvermin fur
Ulthuan grey
Pallid wych flesh
Russ grey
Fenrisian grey
Pink horror
Emperors Children
Ironbreaker (metal)
Runefang steel (metal)
Gehennas gold(metal)
Auric Armour(metal)
Hashut Copper(metal)
Sycorax Bronze(metal)
Brass Scorpion(metal)
Runelord Brass(metal)

SHADES 
Casandora Yellow
Fuegan Orange

Carroburg Crimson 

Druchii Violet
Drakenhof Nightshade
Coelia greenshade
Biel-tan green
Athonian camoshade
Seraphim Sepia
Reikland fleshshade
Agrax earthshade (Devlan Mud)
Nuln Oil

DRY 
Praxeti White
Hexos palesun
Kindleflame
Lucius Lilac
Etherium blue
Skink blue
Hellion green
Underhive ash
Eldar Flesh
Tyrant Shell
Terminatus stone
Longbeard grey
Changling pink
Necron Compound
Golden Griffon

GLAZE 
Lamenters yellow
Waywatcher Green
Guilliman blue
Bloodletter

TEXTURE
Mourn Mountain snow
Stirland Mud
Blackfire Eath
Astrogranite
Armageddon Dust
Lustrian Undergrowth

TECHNICAL 
Lahmian Medium
Ard coat
Imperial Primer
Liquid Green stuff

While the names are very thematic, I can't help wondering if they're a bit confusing, especially since there are so many of them. But it is nice to hopefully see some of the colors that dropped off the range return once again. I guess we'll see what happens soon.