I started this petition in 2020 because I like Games Workshop paints. I would quite like to buy them in bottles that make them easier to use.

It's now September 2026. More than 17,500 of you have signed, GW has announced 150 new paints, and we're still asking for dropper bottles.

Warhammer Tone Pro: new paint, familiar pots

Tone Pro was announced on 18 September 2026. There are 30 colour families with five tones each, numbered from 1 (darkest) to 5 (lightest). GW is promising better coverage, including white and yellow, with one formula for basecoating, layering, highlighting, glazing and drybrushing. There are also two new mediums for shading and blending.

That all sounds worth trying. If the paint is better, great. I want good paint.

But look at the product photographs. They're still in hinged-lid pots. Whatever happened to the dropper-bottle rumours, the range GW has actually shown us is in pots.

A new formula doesn't answer the question this petition has been asking for six years: can we please buy these colours in dropper bottles?

Why this still matters

If you've ever picked dried paint out of a Citadel lid so it would shut properly, you already understand part of the problem. Paint collects around the rim, the lid gets messy, and keeping everything clean becomes another little job before you can get on with painting.

Then there's getting paint onto a wet palette, repeating a mix, or dispensing it into an airbrush cup. A squeezable bottle with a sensible nozzle makes those jobs straightforward. Count a few drops, put the cap back on, carry on painting. Drops aren't precision measurements, but they're useful for keeping track of a recipe.

And an open pot has a rather large opening when you knock it over. A fitted dropper nozzle gives the contents a much smaller escape route. Anyone who's lost a wash across their desk will understand the appeal.

Yes, droppers can clog. Yes, they still need a decent cap and a bit of care. I'm asking GW to design a good bottle, with a nozzle that suits the paint. They can put whatever skulls they like on it.

Already got a shelf full of Citadel paints?

I've put together a guide on FauxHammer showing how to transfer Games Workshop paints into dropper bottles, including the bottles, funnels, mixing balls and moving the labels across. You'll find the link below.

It works as a practical workaround, but it means buying more containers, setting time aside and accepting that some paint can get left behind. I'd much rather buy the paint in the right container in the first place.

And yes, I run the website with the guide. I'd be quite happy for GW to make that article unnecessary. That was true when I started this petition and it's still true now.

One useful distinction: that guide covers existing Citadel paints. It isn't a tested Tone Pro transfer or thinning guide.

What we're asking for

Games Workshop: move Citadel and Warhammer paints, including Tone Pro, to properly designed dropper bottles. Give us squeezable containers, secure caps and practical nozzles. If a specialist texture genuinely needs a pot, fair enough. Explain the exception. A dropper option for the regular paints would be a welcome start.

Make them look like bolt shells. Make them hexagonal. Make them unmistakably Warhammer. Just let us squeeze the paint out.

Please give the people signing this petition a proper response. Are dropper bottles being considered, and if not, why not?

If you want this too, sign and share. My original promise stands: if we reach 500,000 signatures, I'll deliver this petition to Games Workshop's head office myself.

Updated 20 September 2026. GW has announced in-store trials from 26 September; that is a try-it date, not a confirmed general retail release date. Tone Pro product image: Games Workshop / Warhammer Community. This is an independent FauxHammer petition.

My guide to transferring Citadel paints into dropper bottles — FauxHammer​

Source: Games Workshop's Tone Pro announcement