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The Foundry Paint story, in their
own words:
Here at Foundry, we've been
propelled into manufacturing our own densely pigmented water-based acrylic paints
by our desire to fulfil two separate objectives: Paint quality and colour
range.
Nobody seems to make paints that
really cover your model; the density of pigment just isn't there any more. The
palette we use for our own painting just doesn't exist in other people's paint
ranges either.
Customers are constantly asking how we achieve the painting style we show in
our catalogues, release sheets and adverts. For years we've been trying to explain
how we mix the colours and apply the layered shading techniques developed by
our own Kevin Dallimore.
So, we were left with little choice
but to develop our own paints, and present them as a self-explanatory system
that allows our customers to easily adopt the mechanics of our in-house shading
method, and our own particular colour palette. We
don't like seeing garish models that offend the eye with sickly brightness,
but we really enjoy presenting our models in such a way that they have a gentle,
warm glow. As most of our models are of a military nature, they feature a range
of colours that could be simply drab and dull, but we mix pleasant, warm buffs
and tans, sophisticated earthy and stone shades and gently glowing reds, blues
and greens.
Many of our customers tell us they
have a problem mixing their shading colours. They are disappointed when their
models take on a dirty, murky tone when shading is applied, and when they cannot
find a complimentary highlighting shade that brings out the three dimensionality
of the sculpting. We have manufactured
the range of colours we wanted to be able to buy straight off the shelf, and
we've arranged the colours in sets of three; each providing a main colour teamed
up with the shade and highlight that we would choose to use ourselves, so you'll
never have to mix any of the colours yourself.
The Wargames Foundry paints are
excellent in quality and especially useful for painting historical miniatures,
or miniatures that you just want to give a more natural look. I am not much
of a paint mixer, so I dont have much use for eyedropper paint bottles and I
have always liked painting right out of the bottle. Foundry gives me what I
like! And dont be stickershocked by the pricing, each bottle is a full 20ml,
compare that to GW's 12ml!
Neal
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