Paint Stirrers

Small wooden craft sticks chucked into my cordless Dremel at very slow speed. You can also find plastic stirrers at coffee shops and through dental supply sources. Some use sticks made from sprue.

I got the Tamiya Stirrers.  I really like.  The small spoon end really comes in handy for mixing paint especially when I'm brush painting and don't need a lot of paint.  I recommend them.

Jesse

Wooden coffee stirrers, about 6" long and 1/4" wide.  I got a box of about a thousand of them years and years ago and still use them.  They do the trick on Humbrol.

I've tried several and the easiest to clean for me are the metal Tamiya paint stirrers.  Get them from Lucky Models.  Shipping was something like 11 cents.  No kidding...

 http://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=TA%2074017

Dave

I use the sprue.  The supply gets replenished with every build too  Chuck 'em inthe Dremel at low speed.  You want the little corner or bend at the end.

I have the Tamiya stirrers and I really like them. They clean up easily. Mine have lasted a few years now... the one I haven't lost that is.

I have a Badger paint stirrer as well. I don't use it unless the paint is very thick at the bottom of the bottle as it froths the paint too much. There's a way I can hold it so the shaft of the stirrer rests against my hand and I can control the RPM but I find even then my paint airates.

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

Small wooden craft sticks chucked into my cordless Dremel at very slow speed. You can also find plastic stirrers at coffee shops and through dental supply sources. Some use sticks made from sprue.

You're a braver man than me, Hawkeye. I know what would happen if I were to try using a motor tool to stir the paint. WHIRRRRT! Big globs of paint all over the workbench, the model, the walls, me...you get the picture.