If you want Turbo Dork Emerald Nightmare be sure to pick it up before October, but it’s a good thing as they are coming with a new mix!
With change for the better sometimes things need to get left behind. Turbo Dork is creating an awesome new mix that won’t freeze. They are shipping Emerald Green until it becomes too cold for it, and then after that, they are making a whole bunch of new greens. So, if you love new cool paints this is great news, and if you love Emerald Nightmare, well, don’t sit around and miss out, stock up now!
Let’s look at the paint and then the announcement on the new mix.
Turbo Dork Emerald Nightmare: $6.00
This is such a cool paint and we’re sad to see it go but we’re sure whatever they come up with next will be even better! f you love Turbo Dork, check out what else they have going on. Here are the specs on this one:
- Waking up from a dream, alone, in a haunted, dark green forest.
- Emerald Nightmare is included in the B-sides and Rarities Bundle. It is recommended that this paint be used over a black primer.
- Turbo Dork paints are made of a mixture of pigments suspended in an acrylic medium plus additives that make them fast-drying, water-soluble when wet, and water-resistant when dry. The Metallics contain pigments and small mica flakes that create a sparkling effect on the paint surface making it look like metal.
- Formulated for airbrush use, but may also be hand brushed.
So now that the unfortunate side of things is over, let’s look at the announcement for the new paints coming soon!
New Mix Coming Soon:
For those of you who are not aware, our paints would start to catalyze in the bottle if they dipped into freezing temperatures. After last year’s historic winter, we realized that our mix needed to be reworked from the ground up. Over the past several months we’ve been testing revision after revision of this new freeze-resistant mix, with all of our colors, just to make sure everything is better than it was before. We are really pleased with how the final version of our new mix is working. Every color looks amazing, paints amazing, and is easier than ever before to hand and airbrush. Oh, and of course, it doesn’t freeze! We can’t wait until it starts getting out into the wild, as we really hope you all will be as excited by it as we are!
However, throughout all of this testing, we have had one color that we just cannot get working, and that means we have had to come to the unfortunate conclusion that we must discontinue Emerald Nightmare. As we can’t make Emerald Nightmare in the new freeze-resistant mix, that means it can’t be shipped anywhere that gets below freezing.
In our next expansion tray we’re also going to be releasing not one, but three different green-based paints. One of which, Gordian Knot, has a lot of the same dark green tones we loved in Emerald Nightmare.
So all good things and Gordian Knot is used on the model above and it’s already looking awesome!
Get Your Emerald Nightmare Before it’s Gone!
About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
