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Paint color identification &
Posted by F-100 John on Saturday, January 9, 2016 7:14 PM

When I purchase any paints I immediately stir the paint to get the sediment off the bottom to ensure a uniform mixture of paint & I also apply a few drops of paint onto the paint cap for quick color identification. I also note the purchase date ensuring I use the oldest paint first.

F-100 John

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Posted by F-100 John on Saturday, January 9, 2016 7:26 PM

OOPS!

The title should have said "Paint color identification & notes of purchase date"

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    January 2013
Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Sunday, January 10, 2016 10:41 AM

I use sticker dots on my Model Master paints and label them with color name and FS #. Yellow for acrylics, blue for enamels. Pink for Russian colors since they're acrylics and enamels anyway.

Tamiya, Gunze, and Vallejo paints I leave as is with no additional labelling.

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    September 2013
Posted by blackdog62 on Sunday, January 10, 2016 10:56 AM

I'm one of those modelers that try to research the colors for each build. In my area we have testore model master and tamyia paints to choose from I mostly use model master because they have so many more color's to use. After I  purchased there book and found out how much research they do into each colors and there paints being used on projects such as the yellow 10 fw-190d they must be close.

Then there's the German ww2 armor paint that i understand came in a paste and could be mixed with water or fuel and or other products so those would all be a bit different in color.

So a exact match may impossible.

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Sunday, January 10, 2016 11:26 AM

I still have MM enamels that are still good after 20 plus years. I can count on one hand of how many went bad since then.

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Posted by blackdog62 on Sunday, January 10, 2016 1:07 PM

Lol they do last for ever.

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