I read in a magazine the other night, that the author thinned his acrylic paints with a mixture of water and milk. (No joke here, it’s not even close to April 1st!) He claimed it added opacity (I think) to the paint and was reminisant of the old (now rare) casein based paints.
I’m always leary about using anything organic, but milk?? That’s really a stretch. What do you guys think?
Sounds tasty.
mooooooohhhhhh!
LOL. Oh you guys are a BIG help! ( I wonder if you could get mad cow disease from painting with milk?? Guess not, you can’t get it from drinking milk. At least I don’t think you can. Oh oh, now I’m REALLY worried!! lol)
Bill
You’re worried?? I drink nearly 3 gallons a week.
i dont think i can spare the milk for hobby purposes, im always drinking it for health reasons, i just cant bear to see it going into paint. i wonder if the little bit of milk in the paint would ever start to smell or anything like that over time? i know it sounds stupid i was just thinking that.
I was wondering the same thing…anything organic might rot or spoil after awhile?
Dan
My concern exactly Dan,
And spoiled milk would be in it’s own catagory for smell!
As bizarre as this sounds … I think there might be some merit to it.
I remember something in the deep, dark recesses of my mind about a whitewash that used milk as one of the ingredients. This was a household paint so this might just work to some degree.
What we need is a guinea pig to try this method out.
Where’s Erush … he’ll try anything !!!
A lot of rural, antique furniture was painted with a milk based paint, blue being the most common color. And I’ve heard of using egg whites as a medium to mix the pigment into. I think both of these use the protiens as a binding agent. It might be worth a go just to see what happens, but I don’t think it will ever happen around my Leopold!
You guys are hitting on my points exactly! I’m not sure I want to have to worry about cleaning milk out of my airbrush, either!! But, who know! Stranger things…
If milk is thinned out enough, with say, water (and/or milk) it wont turn… I used to un-intentionaly run many experiments under my bed when i was a kid, (actually i still run a few in my hobbyroom… lol) and i found thatmilk mixed with alot of water or even soda, doesnt turn!!
So perhaps there is SOME merit to this???
Perhaps i’ll have to give it a go!!??
LOL
littlemoe,
I really DON’T want to know what’s in your hobby room!![:p]
Okay. You “gun bunnies” gotta quit living these sheltered lives.
Almost all have had concerns about the milk spoiling? What do you think Elmer’s glue is made from?
Have fun modelling, fellow plastic fanatics!!!
Randie
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Mooooooohhhhh!
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hmmmm is that why i havestrong bones??? From eating all that Elmers glue as a kid???
…hmm… Airbrushing my tea? I dunno lads…
Milk…? Only in my hot choc…!
…did it say anything about sugar?
Would soy milk make a difference ?