Bought a couple of bottles of Tamiya acrylics yesterday, and no matter how much I shake the bottles, the paint isn’t completely mixed. Specifically Titanium Silver and Titanium Gold.
I shook them quite a bit last night, even stored them upside down overnight, shook them this morning, and they are still not mixed.
Any recommendations?
Did you try to stir the paints?
DoC
Yes
Some of the paints that emulate metal contain what looks like metal fragments. Could it be that you see such fragments?
DoC
No, there are swirls of different colors. I see the metalflake in the swirls - the swirls are just staying separate and not mixing into one uniform color.
That is normal. Just stir them good and paint as you will never be able mix them enough to get rid of the swirls you see.
Tamiya metallics are a pain like that. Their non metallic paints are very nice.
I never shake my paints… stirred only!!
Bond…James Bond.
Stirred, never shake a small bottle of paint to mix it.
Many metallic paints don’t appear to mix completely, due to strange (Van der Waal’s and other factors) interactions between the coated metallic flakes and the binder/solvent blend. This is normal. If there are no clumps, the paint should spray and brush normally.
BTW: Try Hawkeye’s Talon acrylic metallics. Best acrylic metallic paint I’ve seen since the old Polly S line (Not Polly Scale).