I have been using Scale75 Scalecolor Artist range paints for a over a year now. They are not the easiest paints to work with since they are heavy body acrylics and one really needs to learn how to work with them… and not against them. They are rich in pigment and have a really nice matte finish. They also smell so nice! I know that for most people that is not a relevant matter when it comes to painting miniatures, but I like a full package if I can get one.

With that said, I’ve learned to work with them pretty well. One aspect I have had some challanges with was mixing the right shades that I want. Paiting is just a hobby, and a sane person would simply go for some easy-to-use paints with 200 pre-mixed colors. Not me, apparently. I have almost the whole range and I’m not going to sell them way under the price or throw them away in a box to be forgotten. I am going to use them, of course. They will force me to learn things that I haven’t really planned on learning.

Scale75 has has not shared the ratios for the pigments they have used, sadly. What they have put, however, are the exact pigments. Now, knowing a pigment code means nothing to me. I don’t speak pigment. I have also realised that these particular paints are not the most popular among casual painters so finding an existing recipe using these paints can be rather challenging.

Sure, paints are paints and if one learns how to mix them it should all work fine. After all, there are hundreds of miniature painters out there sharing their knowledge on Youtube and other platforms, right? Yes, there are. Sadly, quite a lot of them don’t share anything valuable and are in just for the clicks or to pipe you into their Patreon. Don’t get me wrong, they are professionals and thus should charge for the service they are providing. The problem is, most of them don’t bother with the basics even on their Patreon pages. They all use specific paints of their choice and all their recipes are tuned to that. And that too is OK.

The field of my work is IT, and that field has been overwhelmed by AI slop. Every other schmuck is “vibe programming” garbage. I consider all the GPT tools as nothing more than tools. They can be very helpful if you have understanding of what you are doing. If not… well, there is no help from the “AI”. I started using Mistral’s LeChat and OpenAI’s ChatGPT for my hobby recently, out of sheer curiosuty. I wanted to see how well they deal with rules for Warhammer. The answer is: OK, but you should not fully trust them. They tend to hallucinate especially when it comes to points for various versions of Warhammer. If you write the prompts well, and in you provide them with the data they are missing, such as the latest points for various armies, they can be a rather good and advanced army building calculator. So, while playing a bit with that I thought about asking them about paints. I wanted to see if it will give me meaningful answers that I can work with.

I talked to both of these tools asking them to give me a specific recipe using Scale75 Artist range. Both of them hallucinated really bad. They kept using paints that were not a part of the range. Though they both managed to keep using Scale75 paints, so that’s something. Just not the correct ones. And no matter how much I tweaked my prompt the results were not good. Then I asked both if they would have better answers if I provided them with the exact pigment list for every single paint in the range I want them to use. Both approved the suggestion and so I did.

And the results were so much better. I would dare say that they were really good. Once I’ve fed both with the exact paing names and pigments they are made of, they were able to give me excellent recipes from simple things that I already have such as NMM gold and silver, to really great recipes for various skin tones. Both were able to give me exact ratios for each of the recipes and a clear explanation why they used those specific pigments. They also had a different approach to the same problem. That is not to say that either one was wrong, it’s that they used different pigments to get to the results. And I found that very interesting because not only did it help me better understand how to mix paints, but it also gave me ideas on how to approach solving the same problem using different paints.

I was able to test a really nice red cloth recipe already and I must say that I was happy. I know that someone more experienced would know what to mix exactly, but for us who treat this just as a hobby and want to learn along the way this is a really good helping tool. The more I experimented with the generated recipes the more I understood what was the reasoning to mix those specific paints. And I got a really clear explanation for each recipe.

So, what is the point of this whole post? I see current iteration of “AI” as nothing more than a tool. In capable hands it can be a good learning tool for various things, given that you already have a solid foundation in what you want to advance in.

But that is not the point of this text. What I wanted to do is share the list of all the Scale75 Artist paints with all of the pigment codes in case anyone needs them for anything, since I was not able to find them anywhere online.

Enjoy mixing and painting!

• Alizarin Green -PY-3, PG-7, PY-42, PB-15:3
• Arctic Blue - PB-29, PV-15
• Art Black - PBk7
• Art White - PW-6
• Buff - PY-42, PBk-11
• Burgundy Wine Red - PR-112, PV-23, PBk-11
• Burnt Sienna - PY-42, PBr-7
• Burnt Sienna Umber - PBr-7, PY-42
• Burnt Skin - PBr-7, PY-42
• Burnt Umber - PY-42, PBr-7
• Cobalt Blue - PB-15:1
• Coral Red - PR-112, PO-5, PR-122
• Crimson - PV-19
• Dark Brown Ochre - PBk-11, PV-79
• Dark Ultramarine - PB-29, PV-15
• Dark Violet - PR-146, PR-122
• Earth Green - PY-42, PBr-7
• Emerald Green - PG-7, PB-15:1
• Golden Flesh - PY-42, PO-5
• Green Grey - PB-29, PV-15
• Intense Yellow - PY-3, PY-83
• Jade Green - PG-7, PBr-7
• Lemon Yellow - PY-3
• Light Moss - PY-42, PG-7
• Light Skin - PW-6, PY-42
• Light Ultramarine - PB-29, PV-15
• Lime Green - PY-3, PG-7
• Magenta - PR-122
• Moss Green - PY-14, PY-42
• Naples Yellow - PY-3, PO-5
• Off White - PY-42, PBk-11
• Olive Green - PY-42, PBr-7
• Orange - PR-112, PO-5
• Pastel Blue - PB-15:1, PBk-7
• Pastel Green -PBk-11, PG-7
• Pastel Violet - PV-19, PV-23
• Pearl Grey - PY-42, PBk-11
• Pink Flesh - PR-101, PW-6
• Primary Blue - PB-15:3
• Primary Red - PR-112
• Primary Yellow - PY-14
• Prussian Blue - PB-15:3, PBk-7
• Raw Sienna - PY-42, PBr-7
• Raw Umber - PY-42, PBr-7
• Red Ochre - PBr-7, PR-101
• Sap Green - PG-7
• Spring Green - PY-83, PG-7
• Titanium Grey - PO-5, PBr-7, PBk-11
• Turquoise - PG-7, PB-15:3
• Turquoise Blue - PB-15:3, PG-7
• Vanilla White - PY-3, PY-42
• Vanilla Yellow - PY-53, PY-14
• Violet - PV-23, PV-19
• Violet Grey - PB-29, PV-15
• Wood - PR-101, PBk-11
• Yellow Ochre - PY-42, PBr-7
• Yellow Oxide - PY-83, PR-101,PBr-7

P.S.

These are not all the paints in the range, just the ones I have and use. However, there are just a few missing and you can add them yourself if you have them.

P.P.S.

It seems that quite a few paints from this range are currently not available on Scale75 website. I sure hope that they are not slowly discontinuing them just when I figured out how to properly mix them. :))