A New Line Of Miniature Paints Is Being Born

poison_

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Huh, I paid €2 for shipping. Possibly because I added some free stickers... no biggie.

yes indeed is because you added the free stickers (I have set the weight of the set to 0.0kg in order to have 0 shipping fees. since you added items with some weight, the order became heavier than 0.0kg and therefore shipping applied). I will be refunding you the excess 2GBP later on today.
 

poison_

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the planned colors for the moment (formulations are ready - some twitching needed though) are displayed below as the proposed colorchart:

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I see a color in your chart above that looks very close to snakebite. It may be exact, not sure, but IME it is important to get snakebite just right for use on NMM gold, among many other things.

You have a cold gray and a warm gray, which is cool. Very true that turqoise is needed. Lots of shades of brown is important. But ultimately, 3 things are needed to qualify as the best of the best for a line of paints. They are:

1) Good flesh colors. Stay away from making them overly pink (tho include one pinkish tone). A couple base tones to choose from would be nice, followed by a couple of shades that include a reddish tan, a greenish tan, and a golden tan. Then a yellow and a pink highlight. I would copy closely the old citadel Tallarn Flesh, Kislev Flesh, Bugman's Glow, Ratskin Flesh. Andrea and Scalecolour are good too.

2) Inks. Nothing crazy here just good strong primary colors. Intensity and saturation are what count.

3) Metallics. These, plus the mattness of their acrylic paints, is what made Scale75 the best in the biz. The key is to make super fine pigments that don't sink in suspension. Also, make a very dark steel, like Scalecolour's Black metal. I found their golds not quite as good, simply because I haven't messed around with them enough to find a clear way to do Bronze, Brass and copper. See also the old line of Citadel metallics.

Do those three and keep your costs where they are, roughly, and there is no reason that everyone wouldn't buy your paint ahead of anyone else. Oh, key colors to think of too would be something that equals VMC Dark Sea Blue which is also GW Incubi Darkness and P3 Coal Black. As I think of more I'll include them here.

I am going to buy that first set simply because you appear to have made a perfect Warlock Purple.
 

evl hmr

New member
Stuck an order in a couple of days ago. Agree with BFoK, with what you have said regarding your paints and your knowledge, duplicating the best colours from each existing range would be a game changer.
 

poison_

New member
I see a color in your chart above that looks very close to snakebite. It may be exact, not sure, but IME it is important to get snakebite just right for use on NMM gold, among many other things.

You have a cold gray and a warm gray, which is cool. Very true that turqoise is needed. Lots of shades of brown is important. But ultimately, 3 things are needed to qualify as the best of the best for a line of paints. They are:

1) Good flesh colors. Stay away from making them overly pink (tho include one pinkish tone). A couple base tones to choose from would be nice, followed by a couple of shades that include a reddish tan, a greenish tan, and a golden tan. Then a yellow and a pink highlight. I would copy closely the old citadel Tallarn Flesh, Kislev Flesh, Bugman's Glow, Ratskin Flesh. Andrea and Scalecolour are good too.

2) Inks. Nothing crazy here just good strong primary colors. Intensity and saturation are what count.

3) Metallics. These, plus the mattness of their acrylic paints, is what made Scale75 the best in the biz. The key is to make super fine pigments that don't sink in suspension. Also, make a very dark steel, like Scalecolour's Black metal. I found their golds not quite as good, simply because I haven't messed around with them enough to find a clear way to do Bronze, Brass and copper. See also the old line of Citadel metallics.

Do those three and keep your costs where they are, roughly, and there is no reason that everyone wouldn't buy your paint ahead of anyone else. Oh, key colors to think of too would be something that equals VMC Dark Sea Blue which is also GW Incubi Darkness and P3 Coal Black. As I think of more I'll include them here.

I am going to buy that first set simply because you appear to have made a perfect Warlock Purple.

wow!!! thank you for all the info shared. i will keep everything in mind and try my best to offer all of the above
 

Bloodhowl

Active member
Posion, just a quick suggestion - the link to your webstore is on page 4. Can you update your first post and add the link there? I'm all about forcing features to make people read things, but when I want to order stuff I don't have time for that! :beerwave:
 

poison_

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Posion, just a quick suggestion - the link to your webstore is on page 4. Can you update your first post and add the link there? I'm all about forcing features to make people read things, but when I want to order stuff I don't have time for that! :beerwave:


thank you for your suggestion. sorted.
 

infelix

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I'm in the middle of trying them out and have done some quick tests on the coverage and how it takes getting diluted with water and this far in, I'm very impressed.
 

Canny

Active member
Exciting to hear! looking forward to testing them, I guess it takes a bit more time to get to NZ.
 

poison_

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I'm in the middle of trying them out and have done some quick tests on the coverage and how it takes getting diluted with water and this far in, I'm very impressed.

glad that you have liked the paints so far. hopefully they will meet your expectations.
I have gone through your website a bit (really astounding work there) and realised you already done some reviews on paint products.
would you mind doing something similar for our paints too? keep in mind that we might be able to address any negative issues before the launching of the paints, but be nice to us!

regards
 

boubi

New member
I was out for a while and realized that now no more stock... I hope you will re stock some so i will also be able to try them! It seems to be like a good paint line from the first comments!
 

infelix

New member
glad that you have liked the paints so far. hopefully they will meet your expectations.
I have gone through your website a bit (really astounding work there) and realised you already done some reviews on paint products.
would you mind doing something similar for our paints too? keep in mind that we might be able to address any negative issues before the launching of the paints, but be nice to us!

regards

Thank you, I'm definitely planning to write a review and I'll send it to you before I post it. I really like that they don't separate, I was a bit sceptical about that at first but I was wrong in that, they really don't separate, love it.
 

poison_

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I was out for a while and realized that now no more stock... I hope you will re stock some so i will also be able to try them! It seems to be like a good paint line from the first comments!

the beta testing sets are out of stock now (30 sets in total) since the shipping cost to me is 5GBP and I am selling them for only 10GBP.
I will be preparing new sets of paints once the feedback from the testers is dealt with. The price will again be the same (1GBP per bottle of paint).

No need to worry:

CHEAP PAINTS FOR ALL OF US
 

infelix

New member
While I wrote down my thoughts I can say that I had no problems mixing them with VMC and Scale 75 paint's, it worked very well.

Edit: Poison: I'm going to PM you with a link to my review. If there's something wrong in it let me know and I won't publish it until I get an OK from you.
 
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