new ULTRA flat black acrylic paint

[Bill Gill]

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

[Ray Dunakin]

Cool paint.

And apparently someone REALLY dislikes Anish Kapoor.

[nk]

There is also another even flatter black made from nanotubes called gravity black from Nanolab: 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.

[finescalerr]

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

[nk]

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.

[Bill Gill]

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

[Bill Gill]

"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 

[nk]

I had invited Stuart Semple to visit and give a talk at work on his paint making business, but the visa side of things got very complicated and we could not make it happen. Too bad, as I had some great chats with him on zoom.

Bill: I thi8nki you are right, some super flat black on the bottom of a manhole is a way to suggest you are looking right through earth and out the other side into deep space!

[Bill Gill]

Narayan, Here's another kind of paint you may also find interesting.It's watercolors with very fine iron or magnetic particles that causes the paint to create intricate fine filaments on the surface it is painted onto was the paint dries.

I started a forum thread about it under Tips, Tricks, Techniques and Tools:
https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/index.php?topic=3458.msg74311#new

but probably should have posted it here under Painting  and Weathering techniques