New Line of Official D&D Paints Coming from The Army Painter
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Article Summary
- The Army Painter and Dungeons & Dragons have just announced a new partnership and licensing deal.
- This will include a new miniatures paint line called Forgotten Pigments, with colors inspired by D&D content.
- Forgotten Pigments will be available sometime in 2027, with exact pricing and a release date still to be confirmed.
- An upcoming D&D Paint Academy will also offer free, beginner painting tutorials and early product reveals.
Dungeons & Dragons has a new official paint partner. Longtime wargaming and tabletop hobby brand The Army Painter announced at this year’s SPIEL Essen game convention that it’s teaming up with Wizards of the Coast to produce a new line of officially licensed D&D miniatures paints entitled Forgotten Pigments.
The new paints will be coming out later in 2027 and will feature colors based on D&D’s artwork, characters, creatures and locations. The Army Painter will also be launching a new D&D Paint Academy that will provide free tutorials for beginners and will preview upcoming products. You can sign up for more information now on their website.
So just what else can D&D fans expect when these new mini paints drop? Below, we edge highlight all the details.
What is Army Painter’s new D&D Forgotten Pigments line?
Forgotten Pigments is a new collection of miniature paints from The Army Painter that features the official Dungeons & Dragons license. According to a blog post on The Army Painter’s website, the paint colors are being developed specifically for D&D miniatures and draw inspiration from the game’s artwork, sourcebooks, characters, creatures and worlds. The company is keeping the full details of the line under wraps for now, so we don’t yet know how many paints will be included, whether they’ll be sold in themed sets or which settings and monsters will be featured.
Alongside the paints, The Army Painter is also launching the D&D Paint Academy, a free series of online beginner painting tutorials that will be conducted using official D&D miniatures and the new paints. The program is aimed squarely at individuals who have never picked up a brush before. Signing up also gets you early word on Forgotten Pigments colors and future product reveals, and The Army Painter has hinted that the paints are only one part of the new partnership.
How much is Army Painter’s new D&D Forgotten Pigments line?
Pricing has not yet been announced, but a typical Army Painter set of 10 bottles of paint retails for around $40 to $50 USD, so we’ll likely see something in this price range.
When will Army Painter’s new D&D Forgotten Pigments be released?
The Army Painter has said only that Forgotten Pigments will be “coming in 2027.” We’ll update this page with an exact date once it’s been confirmed.
Who is The Army Painter?
The Army Painter is a Danish hobby company that’s best known for its Speedpaint line, which lets you base coat, shade and highlight miniatures in a single layer. The company also produces a line of acrylic paints, speed paint markers, airbrush paint and accessories such as brushes, wet palettes and basing materials They have also produced officially licensed paints for other tabletop games, including Trench Crusade and Infinity.
This also isn’t the first time that The Army Painter has taken on the Dungeons & Dragons license. In fact, back in 2018 the company teamed up with both Gale Force Nine and Wizards of the Coast to release Nolzur’s Marvelous Pigments. This was an official D&D paint line that launched with a 10-color Adventurer’s Paint Set (which included a brush and Minsc and Boo miniature) and a 36-color Monster Paint Set (which also included a brush and exclusive Owlbear miniature). Those two products were followed up with an Underdark paint set in 2019 and an Undead set in 2020. Notably, the name of the line is a nod to Nolzur’s Marvelous Pigments, an iconic D&D magic item that features enchanted paint pots that allow the user to turn whatever they paint into a real object.
Final Thoughts
It’s still early days for Forgotten Pigments, but the partnership makes a lot of sense. Plenty of D&D players already own a shelf of unpainted miniatures, and a range built around the game’s own creatures and settings, paired with free tutorials, could be just the push needed to finally get those minis out of the proverbial pile of shame and onto the tabletop.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on the new paints in the days ahead and will update this page with new information as it’s made available. In the meantime, you can learn more and sign up for the D&D Paint Academy now on The Army Painter.
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Jason Volk is the Publisher of Dungeons & Dragons Fanatics and lives in the wilds of Western Canada. He has been playing D&D for over 25 years and is a huge fan of Dragonlance and the Forgotten Realms. His favorite character of all time was a Necromancer named Neek who spent most of his adventuring career resurrecting the corpses of slain monsters. When he’s not playing TTRPGs, Jason enjoys video games, Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer 40K, watching football and spending time with his wife and adorably nerdy children.
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