Dear Minx Studio:
Firstly thank you for taking the time to write about your experience with our beta testing paints.
Let me clarify something about paints:
Paints have different coverage from each other. This is due to the different pigments used in the production. Paints that have white pigments inside for example, are completely opaque.
That said, I would just like to point out that it is a bit unfair to judge a prospective paint line with more than 70 different colours by just testing 10 of the least covering paints (containing pure pigments without white).
The main advantage of our brand is that we are real people that will listen to the end user. we will bend backwards to offer you what you want at a price that will make you smile. We love what we do and we will do it even if most of the feedback was negative (which is more than 93% positive at the moment). we are into this because it is what we like and we want to offer to people something that is not out there: affordable yet high quality products...
Terrafirma: thank you for your support
I judged only the paints I purchased, as I have no basis for judging the entire line.
My comments are purely analysis of the paints I received in the order.
If you are satisfied, then that's what counts and I wish you luck.
-too thin out of the bottle. This is what makes brands like Scale75, Vallejo Model Air and Vallejo Game Air so popular. They come closely matching the consistency that a display painter will ultimately wish to achieve. My limited use of two of these paints suggested a consistency similar to Scale75.
-pasty consistency. Again I am reminded of how Scale75 felt to me when I first used this line. It felt pasty to me in the beginning, and required me to work the paint quite a bit to keep it in suspension before applying. This results in the medium attaining a super matt finish.
Vallejo Air brands are popular because they can go through an airbrush and are thick enough to paint with, I find this less so with game Air.
Poison is similiar to art acrylics with heavy body, or high medium. They do not go on evenly, they leave brush strokes. Its a bit less so when thinned and applied over white, but it remains so when applied over anything else. Whats deceiving is that it does not always dry uneven, but sometimes it does.
-saturated colors over black primer. Your statement here is complete nonesense to me. Yes, it is very important to have saturated colors. No, it has nothing to do with what color you choose to prime with. Consequently, I haven't primed in black alone since I painted purely for gaming. I now prime zenithal or white, but black wouldn't influence the saturation of what I paint with.
Perhaps you misunderstood my comments. I will elaborate.
- Desaturated colours go on over dark colours and black more easily because they are closer to greyscale/black than saturated colours. Thus less difference between the two, means fewer layers for what appears to be an even coat
- Saturated colours are never as intense or saturated over black primer as they are white, because no paint is completely opaque, so the black pigment(which is usually a dark blue) is reflecting blue light outwards and desaturating your colours on top.
- Even if you choose to airbrush over black, you will still suffer the same problems, they will just be slightly less so because its easier to get the even finish without thick paint clogging details.
- My comments about desaturated colours were in reference to those who paint for gaming, which clearly doesnt apply to you in your mind.
- I agree saturation is important, but only for those who understand how to use it. Saturation is integral to shadows and creating volume and depth, as well as complex mixing. Outside of that, painters can get by with somewhat desaturated colours more easily.
-Deceiving. I didn't notice this but ok. Put the paint on the pallet before deciding to use.
Kinda hard to do that before buying it.
White primer-Again this statement is so incorrect it pains me. When you said it confuses beginner painters, did you mean yourself?
not sure what you are referring to, but your last comment is pretty funny.
Exclusively for glazing-If this is true, sign me up. Like I said, I love a line of paints that is pre-thinned. It has zero implications for the primer I choose
Congrats, however as i specified, gamers likely wont. Which means this brand will sell much less volume.. if you know, you approach it from a sales stand point.
You mentioned that it was too thin for edge highlighting. If you mean the quick edge highlighting in one single layer that is populat for table toppers, then fine. But aren't you, in most cases, adding a white or lighter color to another color for your brightest highlights? So this is an easy fix, add a thick white to the paint, which you are probably going to do anyway, and now it's thick enough for edge highlighting.
Edge Highlighting is just as crucial in display painting.
If Im going to buy another brand just to thicken this paint, why not just buy that other brand?
There's no advantage to using this brand when I can simply use the other brands for everything. Why buy this paint just because?
If I come across a bit rude and argumentative, it's because I mean to be. Your assertions were baseless and insulting, clearly meant to belittle the small business owner who was nice enough to seek advise in a public forum. I'm sure you don't like being criticized in such a manner. It would be similar to someone contending that Minx Studio-a studio implying several professional artists operating as an enterprise, is subpar and even though they offer to paint miniatures at 1/3 of the price of other painters, their work is so bad that we wouldn't reccomend anyone paying for their services. Kind of stings, doesn't it? The difference being that someone attacking Minx Studio could actually do so objectively by stating that none of their painting in theCMoN gallery have received higher than an 8.0 rating, making them, at best, upper teir tabletop painters.
They are hardly baseless and I maintained analysis strictly of the product in question.
The fact that I disliked the paint does not qualify me as an asshole. I provided explanations as to why I thought the paint was subpar compared to existing brands.
We are confident in our work, knowledge and abilities. Negative feedback is going to happen in life, and rather than cry about it, we investigate it, because guess what? Its an opportunity to learn something we may not of already known. We encourage feedback, positive or negative. In fact we enjoy negative feedback because its so rare.
Negative feedback offers you an opportunity to take a new perspective, which can be invaluable. Negative does not mean deconstructive which so many seem to assume.
As for paint quality, there's no money in "display" painting, so we do the quality of work that pays and keeps our clients happy. That being said we do have a Slayer Sword and 2 dozen gold and silver awards.
