I bought a bunch of eyebrow waxing spatulas from ebay for about a penny each. About the same length as a cocktail stick but wider/flatter at one end. I've found them great for stirring and sticking small parts to. Like a mini lolly stick but pointed on one end.
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Agree with Jakko about thinning. You don't need to measure exact amounts, just add some water until it feels right.For stirrers, just go to a coffee shop and pick up a few wooden coffee stirrers!You are making things far more complicated than they need to be :smiling3: If the paint is too thick, then pick up some paint with your brush from the bottle and put it onto your palette, then pick up water with the same brush and mix it in.
For mixing two or more colours, use your stirring sticks* to transfer paint to the palette instead of a brush, else you’ll end up with bits of paint in bottles it doesn’t belong in.
* You do stir your paint, right? Get a supply of cocktailprikkers (I have no idea what these are called in English and don’t feel like looking it up :smiling3
and you’ll be set for life. Well, almost.
PeteComment
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That was the name I was looking for!
Flat sticks do work better for stirring, in my experience, but for the smaller model paint bottles, in my experience not enough that I’ve bothered finding better than cocktail sticks. For bigger bottles like Tamiya’s or Gunze-Sangyo’s, I use ice lolly sticks.Comment
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I use these for thinning,
I have several all filled with the liquids I need, be it Mr Hobby thinners, isopropyl alcohol, leveling thinner etc, just label em up and they sit on shelf next to my paints, there ideal for a quick airbrush clean as well just squirt some in fire it through and wipe
As for stirring paints, I use an old airbrush needle, I bought a 1000 coffee stirrers cheap online but I cant stand seeing the paint on those rather than my model no matter how small an amount is wasted lol ( must be my Yorkshire heritage coming out )Comment
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Ade,
I use the plastic dropper bottles as well - for mixing - I drop a ball bearing in to act as agitator - beats stirring!
To slightly misquote CJ Rhodes "To be born a Yorkshireman is to win first prize in the lottery of life"
DaveComment
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I also use pipettes, and with me being a nurse I can get hold of different size syringes and plastic medicine pots for mixing paints.Comment
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My kit for paint mixing!
+ 25 pipettes, and 30 shot glasses still in packets - Nothing above £2!
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A nice piece of kit Dave.Comment
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Hi Miguel,
I use this pipette bought from a Japanese pound store which comes with reservoir to transfer water or thinners to the mixing pallette...
...since using it I have saved on thinner and not made accidental drops. I used to use the rubber topped ones but the thinner fumes degenerated the rubber.
For paint I just use a paint brush to transfer to the pallette. Pallettes are MacD disposable ketchup dishes for acrylics and minor touch ups.
For airbrushing I normally use medicine bottle plastic stoppers as they make nice small recepticles just enough to fill my airbrush cup. For large amounts of paint I mix them in Fuji film cups as they are transparent...don't know if you can still get them. The other kind of mixing pallette I use besides the wet pallettes are mini school pallettes that I cover with kitchen foil. Whenever it's covered in paint I will just throw the foil and rewrap the pallette.
For stirring it's either the paint brush, cocktail sticks and occasionally the stainless steel flat paint stirrers I got from Japan If I don't forget that I have them.
There's no fixed way of mixing paint but the guys have given some tips on the simplest way.
Cheers,
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