What a coincidence, only yesterday I was going through my PDF's from Instar Paints. There's a section in the Value Painting PDF about Intensity and creating a Grey Scale paint set, I was thinking that would be cool to have. Then this video popped up today, must be a sign!! Fortunately Instar do 50ml refill bottles. They do 9 grey mixes between the black and white, starting at 10:0 with the black and ending with 0:10 with the white. So 9:1, 8:2, 7:3 etc. Might make a start on it tomorrow, got enough bottles to do 7 mixes. That would be a good start, could leave out the 9:1 and the 1:9 mixes for now
@@MattsHobbyHour They are UK based, not sure if they have a distributor in the US or not. They have loads of really useful free downloads. The blank swatches are really handy along with the mixing formula's Thanks, hopefully wont make too much mess, lol
Nice video ! It's weirdly difficult to find a nice dark grey in all the popular brands. You have tons of neurtal mid greys, but there's a huge gap between those and pure black.
Yeah you're right, there aren't enough good greys out there. That's why I had to resort to mixing my own. Hopefully some brand out there will end up making a good set of neutrals. Until then at least, mixing is a good option!
I want to do this with Vallejo Game Color paints. Realistically if I were to buy a few bottles of black and white to mix my greys, what sort of ratio should I get? Obvs a black for #1 and white for #10...but for the other 8 should I get 4 black and 4 white? That should balance out a full 1-10 range of black to white across a range of greys shouldn't it? Brilliant video by the way 👏👌❤️👍😎
I mixed up all 8 at once when the new VGC formula came out. If I remember correctly I bought 6 of each just so I knew I would have extra. Adding in some airbrush medium gave me a little more paint too. I think I ended up using 5 white and 4 black. Black is stronger of the two so you'll end up needing a lot more white for the lighter mixes (I think grey 8 is like 95% white). One tip to avoid wasting any paint. There will always be a little paint left in the white/black bottles at the end. I added some airbrush medium to dilute it and shook it up, then transferred all that diluted paint to a single bottle for airbrushing later. I did that both for white and black.
Yeah absolutely! I'm a big fan of custom colors. I made a series of highlight mixes for my Ultramarines army, going from a medium blue up to white, and it was really useful. You could do something like that for any color.
Thanks for watching! I only made #4 from craft paint, since that's the only grey I typically use on bases. I do have some craft paint copies of Rhinox Hide and a few other browns (I'm planning on making that video some time too)
This is incredible. I can't wait to do this. Thank you!
Thanks and good luck! Hope you enjoy painting with them.
What a coincidence, only yesterday I was going through my PDF's from Instar Paints. There's a section in the Value Painting PDF about Intensity and creating a Grey Scale paint set, I was thinking that would be cool to have. Then this video popped up today, must be a sign!!
Fortunately Instar do 50ml refill bottles. They do 9 grey mixes between the black and white, starting at 10:0 with the black and ending with 0:10 with the white. So 9:1, 8:2, 7:3 etc. Might make a start on it tomorrow, got enough bottles to do 7 mixes. That would be a good start, could leave out the 9:1 and the 1:9 mixes for now
That's good to know! I'm not familiar with that brand; I'll have to check them out. Thanks, and good luck with your painting!
@@MattsHobbyHour They are UK based, not sure if they have a distributor in the US or not. They have loads of really useful free downloads. The blank swatches are really handy along with the mixing formula's
Thanks, hopefully wont make too much mess, lol
Great work Matt. Keep going.
Thanks, will do!
I don’t have a fine art background so any info on how to apply colour theory would be well received.
Nice video ! It's weirdly difficult to find a nice dark grey in all the popular brands. You have tons of neurtal mid greys, but there's a huge gap between those and pure black.
Yeah you're right, there aren't enough good greys out there. That's why I had to resort to mixing my own. Hopefully some brand out there will end up making a good set of neutrals. Until then at least, mixing is a good option!
Great breakdown
thanks!
This is an excellent video, Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
I want to do this with Vallejo Game Color paints. Realistically if I were to buy a few bottles of black and white to mix my greys, what sort of ratio should I get? Obvs a black for #1 and white for #10...but for the other 8 should I get 4 black and 4 white? That should balance out a full 1-10 range of black to white across a range of greys shouldn't it? Brilliant video by the way 👏👌❤️👍😎
I mixed up all 8 at once when the new VGC formula came out. If I remember correctly I bought 6 of each just so I knew I would have extra. Adding in some airbrush medium gave me a little more paint too. I think I ended up using 5 white and 4 black. Black is stronger of the two so you'll end up needing a lot more white for the lighter mixes (I think grey 8 is like 95% white).
One tip to avoid wasting any paint. There will always be a little paint left in the white/black bottles at the end. I added some airbrush medium to dilute it and shook it up, then transferred all that diluted paint to a single bottle for airbrushing later. I did that both for white and black.
Spectacular !
Is possible to do this process with other colours? wonderfull video Thank you!
Yeah absolutely! I'm a big fan of custom colors. I made a series of highlight mixes for my Ultramarines army, going from a medium blue up to white, and it was really useful. You could do something like that for any color.
Great video! Did you end up making the majority of the batch from cheaper paints?
Thanks for watching! I only made #4 from craft paint, since that's the only grey I typically use on bases. I do have some craft paint copies of Rhinox Hide and a few other browns (I'm planning on making that video some time too)
for the love of all that is pure, more color theory videos pls
Thanks! I'll do my best to knock out some more of them going forward. Happy painting!
Gah, love it.