When I purchase any paints I immediately stir the paint to get the sediment off the bottom to ensure a uniform mixture of paint & I also apply a few drops of paint onto the paint cap for quick color identification. I also note the purchase date ensuring I use the oldest paint first.
F-100 John
OOPS!
The title should have said “Paint color identification & notes of purchase date”
I use sticker dots on my Model Master paints and label them with color name and FS #. Yellow for acrylics, blue for enamels. Pink for Russian colors since they’re acrylics and enamels anyway.
Tamiya, Gunze, and Vallejo paints I leave as is with no additional labelling.
I’m one of those modelers that try to research the colors for each build. In my area we have testore model master and tamyia paints to choose from I mostly use model master because they have so many more color’s to use. After I purchased there book and found out how much research they do into each colors and there paints being used on projects such as the yellow 10 fw-190d they must be close.
Then there’s the German ww2 armor paint that i understand came in a paste and could be mixed with water or fuel and or other products so those would all be a bit different in color.
So a exact match may impossible.
I still have MM enamels that are still good after 20 plus years. I can count on one hand of how many went bad since then.
Lol they do last for ever.