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Hello everyone,
Does anyone have a good solution for the most flat black color and sealant combo? If this has been answered elsewhere, a link would be great. I've tried a few things, but usually, the matte sealant still gives me more gloss than I want. Also, you're tongue is NOT an appropriate way to clean the paint pot. Looks nice doesn't equate to tastes nice! Now get back to work. That army isn't coming to life on it's own! Many thanks on any input, helpful or useless

So you’re any the blackest black? I have Davies trying some of the paint from here for a while but haven’t yet. No idea how well it would work for mini paint.

https://culturehustle.com/products/black-3-0-the-worlds-blackest-black-acrylic-paint-150ml

You can buy the pigments to mix down yourseolf

AK Interactive Ultra Matte Varnish is magnificent stuff. It'll take the shine off anything.

mrFickle wrote:
So you’re any the blackest black? I have Davies trying some of the paint from here for a while but haven’t yet. No idea how well it would work for mini paint.

https://culturehustle.com/products/black-3-0-the-worlds-blackest-black-acrylic-paint-150ml

You can buy the pigments to mix down yourseolf

I though so at first, but it turns out not as cool as I though it seemed at first. 10:40 onward

I have 2.0. It's...good for some, not so good for others. No black hole effect for one. Put it on model and all the muscles etc are visible.

It's also horribly thick.

It IS super mat though. Mattest black I have seen.

Bad for any spot where you need details. I got it work well for hood interiors of nazgul's. For that it works nicely.

I've used the "Black 3.0" for some things.

I used it on a cloak I wanted to make into a starfield. It just never quite looked right on the model unfortunately. I could see it working well on interiors of a cloak like tneva said, I'll have to give that a shot for something suitably dark.
I've used it on my bases on the other hand, on the rim, and it really makes the rest of the model pop.

Yes, it needs to be thinned quite a bit. I usually use 3-4 coats when thinned, and I'll do it over a regular black paint coat.

For sealing, I use a matte coat, which reduces the black-hole effect. Then I go back over the areas I want dark with another thinned coat of Black 3.0, which makes it suitably blacker-black again. Lots of play will of course wear off that layer of black over time since it's not sealed, but its harder to see that it's happening with the coats under it.

I use black 3.0 for a few things. I've found terrain is where you get the most mileage out of it.



Here's one I used it on recently, for the cave entrance. You can immediately see the difference between it and a normal black on that piece, with the black 3.0 making it look like the cave goes on for ages into an abyss or something.

That looks really cool!
Was wanting to get some myself for my ringwraithes.

One thing I was planning to use it with was indeed with terrain. Specifically to represent huge cliff in moria board.

Yeah, that seems like a really good example - that's a cool effect of a big canyon.

Golden Acrylics Carbon Black, in Matte if you are wanting flat. I use the gloss and a matte varnish.