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I am looking for information on Roman period paint, more specific paint for a wood surface. The ingredients, measurements, pros/cons, etc... Also, what colors were available to them.
Joshua B. Davis
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Milk Paint, Paul Columna in our Florida unit can tell you more.
I just use Latex, Milk Paint isn't really worth the maintenance required.
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Egg yolk tempera and encaustic (wax, usually + resin) were also known. The Fayum Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt used both and show that fairly realistic paintings and a decent variety of colors were possible.
Oil paint seems to postdate the Western Empire.
May I ask what specifically you're painting?
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I use milk paint for all wood. I also get the base and mix pigment in it too, though I have not yet dared cinnabar. I have not had good luck with encaustic sticking to leather, though it looks wonderful.
Milk paint is remarkably though, I have found.
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Please tell me about this Florida Unit
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Legio VI has a Cohort in Florida, they used to be Legion 10 but combined into us after Legio 10 died out around 2005-ish.
You still have to Travel to get to events around here though, but I think they might have events down there... I'm not sure.
Rusty would know more.
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Quote:May I ask what specifically you're painting?
I am doing research for an SCA project I am doing. I am entering a Latrunculi board game into an Arts & Science competition. On the borders of the board I am going to paint in the colors of the local Barony and decorate with Romans fighting Barbarians. The board will wood probably Birch.
Joshua B. Davis
Marius Agorius Donatus Minius Germanicus
Optio Centuriae
Legio VI FFC, Cohors Flavus
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