re-building my paint set; Reaper/Vallejo/Army Painter discussion

[knarthex]

Only 15????

8p

[CashWiley]

It's a black with a turquoise undertone, sort of the way Reaper's Nightmare Black is really blue when you thin it.

No, it's a turq for sure, on the dark side for a turq but in no way black. Nightmare Black is intensely dark until thinned.

 

[Auberon]

 

 

I'm curious as to what pigments you think Reaper avoids?

Unlike Vallejo, I've never seen an SDS for Reaper paints so its as much rumor as anything, but rumor has it that Reaper avoids toxic heavy metals in their paints. The typical five heavy metals are lead, mercury, arsenic, chromium, and cadmium, all of which have been used to make pigments at some point in time.

 

So far as I know, Reaper sticks to "non-toxic" pigments for health and safety reasons. All of their paints are mixed from about a dozen pigments chosen for their lack of toxicity.

 

So yeah, no, they're not going to use the heavy metal pigments. In that sense they avoid them.

 

ETA: Also, you left out uranium. Now there was a fun orange. :P

 

Fun fact: There is a building on the Mizzou campus named for Hermon Schlundt, a faculty member in the early 1900s. He corresponded with Marie Curie about her work with radioactivity and they would send samples to each other. By regular mail. Just place your radioactive sample in a box, drop it off at the local post office, and away it goes. Ah the good old days...

 

 

I hear that if you know the right person, it is still possible to get genuine Chinese vermilion from China.

So far as I know, genuine Vermilion paint continues to be readily available on the market (but it has been a while since I checked). I have a small drawerful of tubes of Vermilion in oil, in shades from brilliant orange-red to deep maroon-red.

 

It's pretty, but the Cadmiums do just as well for opaque bright reds, in my opinion.

 

Paints are, but I hear the actual pigment for grinding your own is harder to find. I don't grind my own pigments and Cadmium is much less toxic, so not really an issue for me. I suppose the Chinese vermilion pigments still have their rep from back in the day when they were considered to be superior to European.

 

Unless Cassu is looking into making her own paints?

[Cassu]

 

Unless Cassu is looking into making her own paints?

 

Not anytime soon! 

[knarthex]

Hello!

[ub3r_n3rd]

 

 

 

Unless Cassu is looking into making her own paints?

Not anytime soon!

I see Meg Maples is living in Australia now and is creating a new line of paints. She's a cool person and amazing painter. Maybe look her up on Facebook, she goes by "arcane paintworks".

[Laoke]

I'll third the Vallejo Model Air metallics.  I got a full set of them about 2 years ago now, and they're great - although the Bright Gold paint curdled in the bottle for me within the first year or so which was a bit elfing on the nose.  On the whole though they give great coverage, don't separate as you paint with them, and are great for drybrushing.  Disclosure - the only modern metallics I've used are Reaper Master Series, Vallejo Game Color, and the Model Air.  But of those three, these win and it's not particularly close.

[Cassu]

 

 

 

 

Unless Cassu is looking into making her own paints?

Not anytime soon!

I see Meg Maples is living in Australia now and is creating a new line of paints. She's a cool person and amazing painter. Maybe look her up on Facebook, she goes by "arcane paintworks".

 

I follow her on Facebook. She taught a basing workshop here a few months back but I want to go to a painting workshop of hers and not a basing workshop. (Especially at $250AUD a pop.) Either way she's currently overseas teaching workshops. Will keep an eye out for her paints for sure.

Edited September 15, 2016 by Cassu