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Mixing Balls from Army Painter... what you say is right, but I know some people that put metal balls in the Vallejo eyedropper type of bottle and for the Citadel jar. It dose not seem to affect or alter the paint, sure that glass balls are more adequate and are inert and don't react with the paint. Glass balls are used all so for the paint spray cans. But I just give energetic shake to the Vallejo bottles and stir with a toothpick or a match stick the Citadel paints for better homogeneity of the paints.

  



What I have observed till now, is that the solvent evaporates, or some other reaction takes place, and the pigments solidify and what remains is only the pigments and the binders, the rest of the components of the paint like the additives and the extenders just seem to merge into a mass of little boulders with the consistency of fresh yeast. On other occasions they paint seems like a type of dirt like substance, and in that case you may still recover the paint and use it. But honestly I don't trust a paint if it is in that conditions, even if yoy manage to "repair" it. The paint just ain't gonna work like it is spuposed to, and it may react funny and rouine yor work.


Attached are the types of problems that I've encoter till now and a little invetion of mine, that is the "Infinite Paint Tester", it's just a broken CD case that you prime with your favorite primer and then you can test out the paint, to see how they act if diluted or aplyed directly and drying time:


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