When I use a brush, I only need to recap the jar. But what do I do with paint that is thinned for spraying? Is the thinned paint stored in a separate jar?
Thanks,
You can get bottles and caps at places like Micro Mark, and use labels to indicate what paint is in that bottle when you are finished.
Eventually you might want to maintain a roster of mixes used to make each paint.
Some hobby shops that sell Badger or Paasche airbrushes also have the bottles, but Micromart will probably be cheaper.
Most of the time I cap it off store it back until I need that color only to find it takes 1/2 an hour and a pair of pliers to get the top off only to find it has dried up…lol…Cox 47
Just save it in an empty paint bottle. My Paasche VL takes any model paint bottle that’s the same top and thread size as Floquil/PollyS/PollyScale bottles, both small and large sizes. This also includes SMP Accupaint and Testors. When you finish any suitably-sized bottle of paint, clean both the bottle and cap for use with thinned paints for your airbrush. I have about two dozen bottles of thinned paint in use or storage at any time. When the amount of thinned paint in the bottles gets too low to be of use, I consolidate them in another bottle, then add more thinner: these are useful for weathering. Any colours can be used for this, although I don’t add metallic colours or gloss paints to the mix. Also, keep water-based and thinner-based paints separate. At $4.00 or $5.00 a bottle, I’m not throwing any out unless it hardens in the bottle, and even then, I’ll dig it out so I can at least re-use the bottle. [swg]
Wayne