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Making pigments into paint


Evil Eye

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On my travels across the internet in search of more paints to fill my shed with, I've discovered the rather wonderful looking Armored Komodo line of pigments. Whilst technically meant for mecha modelling, I can imagine they'd be very good for some 40K models.

 

The problem, however, is that the application process appears to be rather finicky. You have to spray a gloss basecoat and, whilst it's tacky but not wet, rub the pigments on by hand. Whilst this makes sense it also looks like something that's liable to go horribly wrong, and is exactly the sort of thing I dread.

So I was wondering- rather than doing that, would it work to just mix a small amount of these pigments into a medium (such as, say, Tamiya Clear) and apply it like a regular paint? They look to be very fine pigments, and paint is basically just pigment in medium, so it SHOULD work, but is there something I'm not accounting for?

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From what I understand "paint" has a binder chemical in it to help suspend the pigments in the medium.  If you mix fine powder into a liquid you can just get swirling powder in a liquid that sinks.  How is this any better than ready mixed paint?  The colors look cool?

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From what I understand "paint" has a binder chemical in it to help suspend the pigments in the medium.  If you mix fine powder into a liquid you can just get swirling powder in a liquid that sinks.  How is this any better than ready mixed paint?  The colors look cool?

These are special effect pigments, high-shine metallic colours (some with colourshift properties). The effects you can get are really nice and much finer than those attainable with a lot of readily available brands.

 

Schmincke has an auxilary product for what you are looking for. Its called acrylic binder.

https://www.schmincke.de/en/products/mediums/binders/acrylic-binder-ready-to-use.html

Thanks!

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