Lamp Black

Pigment Black 7¹

Lamp black (carbon black), s. Soot.

Single Pigment Colours

A small overview of lamp black (PBk 7) single pigment colours suitable for miniatures, models, and dioramas.

Carbon Black (PBk 7, opaque), Golden Acrylics 1040
Carbon Black (PBk 7, opaque), Lascaux Artist Acrylfarbe 181
Carbon Black (PBk 7, opaque), Lascaux Studio Acrylfarbe 973

When carbon black is tinted with zinc white, the result is a cold medium grey with a noticeable hue shift towards the blue part of the visible spectrum. Carbon black is therefore particularly suitable for mixing historical military colours such as British Artillery Grey or Dark Grey Nr. 46.

Source: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6. Auflage 1905–1909

Black

^{Caution: Pigment Black 7 contains carbon black, which has been classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).↩}