Yeah, I think that is the biggest mis-conception that people think about the AK products, that you can just take some paint and thin it out, or mix pigments with an enamel carrier and get the same product. There is just more to it than that.

Plus I don't know about the rest of you, but my modeling time to me is important, as I don't get as much as I would like, so I really don't want to spend half of what time I do have trying and stressing over trying mix my own. Much easier just to pull a bottle from the shelf, and you know it is going to be the same consistency, same color, same everything, every time.