If I live in USA, where can I find measuring pipettes (mL scale on the pipette) for measuring out exact amounts of of paint for mixing?
Do you have a special tool or system for measuring out exact proportions of paints to be mixed?
There should be a medical supply or maybe a drug store. I believe children’s liquid medicine have a scale on the dropper. I just use an eye dropper and count the drops.
Counting drops is going to be about as exact as you are going to get realistically. If I am mixing paint for coloration that’s the only way I do it since a small variance in proportion can make a noticeable difference in shades.
You can usually find items for measuring small quantities at pet supply stores. Aquariums frequently need small quantities of chemicals added, and pets need small quantities of medicines.
Syringes are handy if you can get your hands on one. Try and find one with a small diameter since that requires more volume to be noticeable on the scale. If you need a tighter scale, use a ruler that reads in 1/64 inches or millimeters. Since you are more concerned with the proportion than the actual volume, using an arbritray scale will work fine.
If you are mxing different color of paints, why don’t you try a hypodermic needle and absort the paint in percentage using the cc of the syringe and also at the same time the amount of thinner to be use and then, push the handle forward to store it in your paint cup.
i use the needles for adminesetring diabetics medicine. they hold 5ml of paint and are perfect for measuring paints. here in oz i get them for 30cents each, so theyre cheap enuf to use once if u please, but i just soak mine overnight in amonia…
oh, and a tip: when u suck paint up hold the plunger up about 1cm, just so that when u suck paint up it wont touch the plunger and m,ake it easier to measure…
Tominator is right.
A syringe is about as accurate as you can get.
The pippette system works just as well, depends on how finicky you are about your painting.
I use both, but the syringe is used when I start weathering etc, just so everything is close to perfect.
I’m a little funny that way.[:-^]
Actually, there is a company selling products just for that purpose.
Here is the link; www.precisionmixsystems.com
Try them out, their products work great !
oh, and try and steer clear of those pipette things… i personally dont like em, coz say ur transferring paint and ur fingers twitch, u squeeze the bulb a tiny bit and paint will fall out… also when u have enuf paint and take the pipette out of the paint a whole heap of air gets sucked in the tube and splatters the paint inside the tube, and its almost imposible to judge how much 'squeeze for how much paint…
maybe im doing it wrong, but thats what ive found…
i use pipettes but i wouldent reccomend them, they are tough to clean. syrenges are the best, but i dont use them cos they are expensive (for me)