Giving Foundry Paints Another Chance

[Corso]

Talc was mentioned to me - I've also read somewhere that Scale 75 paints have more talc in the mix, maybe that's why they have the most matte finish I have ever seen.

Tamiya flat base sounds inetersting.

Never tried P3 paints, so far. But someone had also recommended them to me locally some time ago. May give them a go.

[Codsticker]

Tamiya flat base sounds inetersting.

I've tried this a couple of times on washes and it actually works pretty decent although I didn't add so much that I got a very matte finish.

[vexillia]

I have never been able to buy a reasonable small amount of pure talc.

 
In 2011 I bought this:



After 9 years I'm happy with how it works and it's looking like I bought a life time's supply in one bottle.

More:
https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2011/05/painting-tips-5-talc.html
http://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2011/09/painting-tips-5a-matting-acrylics-with.html
https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2014/05/painting-tips-5c-matting-acrylics-with.html

[syrinx0]

I was trying to avoid fragrances and other ingredients and looking at scientific chemical suppliers which I admit might have been over thinking it. Once I had the Tamiya flat base, that has done the job.  It's a lot smaller than your bottle though.   

[WuZhuiQiu]

After asking about Foundry paints for Indian skin tones, I did a bit of web research and number-crunching. This seemed to be the best existing thread to post my quick findings.

I found a website that had the apparent RGB values of the first 50 or so Foundry paint triads:

http://www.danbecker.info/minis/miniother/PaintCharts/index.html

Next, after some data cleansing and transformation, I calculated the matrix of their weighted colour distances, and checked for distances below 100 units. Some apparent proximities were rather odd in light of the colour chart, but most made sense.

What it tended to confirm for the flesh-, tan-like, and brownish triads is that only very few are internally coherent, where the three colours in a triad are close to one another. Often, the shade and mid tones are close enough, but the highlight is far off. Some colours match better outside of their own triads. Surprisingly, at least one pair of differently-named colours seems to coincide according to the distance measure!

Long story short, it would seem that one cannot always rely on Foundry's chosen triads to select base, mid, and highlight colours that match well.