Read description of this ultra flat black acrylic paint (it really does absorb almost all light that falls on it, making a painted object look like a black hole). Though a bit pricey and temporarily sold out, looks very interesting. Here are two links with a little more information about the paint:
http://stuartsemple.com/projects/black-v1-0-beta-worlds-mattest-flattest-black-art-material/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vantablack-vs-black-superblack-907556
Cool paint.
And apparently someone REALLY dislikes Anish Kapoor.
There is also another even flatter black made from nanotubes called gravity black from Nanolab: https://www.nano-lab.com/gravity-oil-paint.html (https://www.nano-lab.com/gravity-oil-paint.html) Its more black than Stuart Semple's black but still pretty costly, but if you need a light absorbing paint without getting into Surrey Nanosystems VANTAblack or MIT's even blacker black, this is the one for you.
Narayan, it seems to have taken you at least two months to find Bill's post. What kind of modeling mischief have you been up to lately? -- Russ
Quote from: finescalerr on June 20, 2022, 11:55:52 PM
Narayan, it seems to have taken you at least two months to find Bill's post. What kind of modeling mischief have you been up to lately? -- Russ
Russ: Nice of you to ask. Thanks. I have moved house and set up a studio in our basement (that involved designing and ordering tables, replacing pinched hydraulic lines etc etc). I am just getting a second wind on a project based on a street in Sao Paulo and I have a line of future projects dying to be built. Its nice to start to feel settled and back to the bench. More soon.
Interesting timing on your reply, Narayan!
Just a few days ago I saw a pothole in a street that looked like it went to the center of the earth. I thought of your street dioramas and chuckled that the ultra black would be a way to model the appearance of that crater :)
"Narayan, it seems to have taken you at least two months to find Bill's post. What kind of modeling mischief have you been up to lately?" -- Russ
Russ, The original post was in April 2017 ::)