How do you stir acrylics? I noticed that it is written on Tamiya : stir slowly and carefully. On Pactra there is nothing like that. I stir Pactra by shaking the little bottle and so far I guess it is OK. Nothing bad hapened to the paint. And it seemed stirred well enough to me. Can I shake Tamiya too, or should I really stir it slowly and carefully?
Maciek
Personal experience, having been a shaker in the past (ugh...), is that I had more problems getting the bottles open. Paint getting in the threads, or sticking to the "gasket." I jut use half a bamboo skewer and stir for about a half minute or so. I just take it as a zin moment.
rich
I open the bottle, use a piece of sprue to stir the bottom of the bottle, then I put the lid on and shake and roll gently.....if u look at the bottom of the bottle u can usually see when all the particulate matter is back in solution.
I put two BBs (as in BB gun) in each bottle or tin of enamel paint and shake after stirring them with a toothpick. I've also done this with acrylics and it works fine to mix everything up. BUT... the acrylics tend to foam up and produce tiny bubbles on the surface of the paint in the bottle. This sometimes affects the brushing smoothness. I've heard there are anti-foaming agents available that can be added but don't know specifically what these are. Anyone know anything about these anti-foaming agents?
Thanks,
Martin
Truth of the matter is, don't trust yourself. If it's an important project, new paint is one of the cheapest investments you can make. I have at least thre bottles of every paint I could possibly use. I really like Vellejo because it's in a dropper bottle and has less of a chance to screw me up, but I still have a back-up. No matter how good you are at assembly, no matter how good the model molding, paint will bite you if you don't pay attention to it. For some odd reason, no matter what I do, Tamiya acrylics gum up for me after two models, so I add that in to the cost of the kit if I'm using Tamiya acrylics. Vellejo has yet to do this to me. I also shoot Dulcote straight from the can and get good results. YMMV.
Claude Allen
"Arcusinoz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
Hi all
I have a small electric motor driven thing to whip or oam hot milk from IKEA, costs Euro 1,-!!!
Something like:
I cut if the round springy whipper on the end and left an L-shaped hook on the end.
Works like a charm on acrylics and all other paints, costs nearly nothing.
HTH, cheers,
Dennis
"me-me" wrote in news:Xns96F096F6BDE2memehotmailcom@213.75.12.135:
And now with fewer mistakes!
Hi all
I have a small electric motor driven thing to whip or foam hot milk. Bought it from IKEA, costs Euro 1,-!!!
Something like:
I cut off the round springy whipper thing on the end and left an L-shaped hook on the end.
Works like a charm on acrylics and all other paints, costs nearly nothing.
HTH, cheers,
Dennis
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