Beer bottle caps.

Yep. I save the caps from bottled water. Same idea. I use it to mix paint or to thin a small amount of putty, then throw it away. Re-cycle, re-use,,,,,

Rich

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espins1 wrote:

I always need to add some Tamiya thinner with the drying retarder to the paint to make them easier to brush with!

Scott, I feel like a real idiot now.  I always use the Tamiya thinner for the airbrush but it never even occoured to me to use it for hand brushing.    I bet it helps a lot.

razordws wrote:

espins1 wrote: I always need to add some Tamiya thinner with the drying retarder to the paint to make them easier to brush with!  Scott, I feel like a real idiot now.  I always use the Tamiya thinner for the airbrush but it never even occoured to me to use it for hand brushing.    I bet it helps a lot.

I learned that lesson the hard way, just about giving up on brush painting Tamiya Acrylics altogether until I tried that trick.  The thinner makes it much more fluid and drastically slows down the drying time not only eliminating brush strokes and gumming of the paint, but giving you much more time to work with it. 

I go to the bar down the street from my house, order up a crown and coke and ask them for all their bottle caps. Hundreds of em! I'll never use them all.

My buddy likes to superglue them to the tops of old discarded tables and then uses a clear acrylic compound he gets from TAP plastics to seal them in. Very cool looking. He does the same with spent shell casings.

SST