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2nd time finding a shade/color difference between old & new batches of Testor's acrylics

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    April 2012
2nd time finding a shade/color difference between old & new batches of Testor's acrylics
Posted by F-100 John on Friday, March 28, 2014 2:39 PM

I recently used Testor's acrylic Gull grey & discoved a difference of the shade/color between a new & old batch of the same FS number. I thoroughly stir the paint before airbrushing. Has anyone else ever run into this situation????


F-100 John

  • Member since
    March 2014
Posted by BarrettDuke on Friday, March 28, 2014 4:04 PM

I start out with the assumption no two bottles of paint will be exact matches, regardless of identical paint name/brand. If I think a bottle doesn't have enough paint in it to finish a job, I won't even use it for the job. I have poured a nearly empty bottle of the same paint name/brand into another bottle of the same and mixed them together really well before starting, though.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:13 AM

I find it more of a problem when buying the bottles at widely different times.  Usually if I buy them at the same time they match, but of course that is still not a guarantee they are from the same branch, depending on when the bottles got loaded into the rack.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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