Mr Color paint

[Tim Marlow]

Worthwhile knowing that Richard. As it is an acrylic paint in a lacquer thinner carrier I have thrown them out before thinking it was irretrievably set when that happens.

[rtfoe]

Worthwhile knowing that Richard. As it is an acrylic paint in a lacquer thinner carrier I have thrown them out before thinking it was irretrievably set when that happens.

Tim, it's also the only paint I dare pour back into the bottle after mixing too much with Mr Color thinner. Other paints react after contact with a mixed batch even if I use original thinners especially enamels. They tend to develop a surface skin.

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Thanks for that Richard. Like Tim I would have thrown it out
Jim

[Guest]

if your Mr Color has hardened in the bottle, just add an equal amount of lacquer thinner, then wait half an hour and its resuscitated. It's the only paint I know that lasts till the last drop.

Much the same trick works for Games Workshop and Revell acrylics (and probably others) if they’ve become a thick lump that you can poke holes into with a stick but which you can’t stir or paint with anymore: add some isopropanol (Tamiya X20a thinner is basically this, and most windscreen wiper fluid is too) and begin to stir. It’ll eventually become usable again if you keep up the stirring and adding amounts of isopropanol every so often.