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                        Got Milk??

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                        wipw
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Utah - USA
                        Got Milk??
                        Posted by wipw on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:20 PM
                        I read in a magazine the other night, that the author thinned his acrylic paints with a mixture of water and milk. (No joke here, it's not even close to April 1st!) He claimed it added opacity (I think) to the paint and was reminisant of the old (now rare) casein based paints.

                        I'm always leary about using anything organic, but milk?? That's really a stretch. What do you guys think?

                        Bill ========================================================== DML M4A2 Red Army ========================================================== ========================================================== -- There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". (Author unknown)
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                        tigerman
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA
                        Posted by tigerman on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:32 PM
                        Sounds tasty.

                        http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/wing_nut_5o/PANZERJAGERGB.jpg

                         Eric 

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                        Dwight Ta-ala
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Philippines
                        Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:38 PM
                        mooooooohhhhhh!

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                        wipw
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Utah - USA
                        Posted by wipw on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:58 PM
                        LOL. Oh you guys are a BIG help! ( I wonder if you could get mad cow disease from painting with milk?? Guess not, you can't get it from drinking milk. At least I don't think you can. Oh oh, now I'm REALLY worried!! lol)

                        Bill
                        Bill ========================================================== DML M4A2 Red Army ========================================================== ========================================================== -- There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". (Author unknown)
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                        cassibill
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                          February 2003
                        • From: Indiana, USA
                        Posted by cassibill on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:04 PM
                        You're worried?? I drink nearly 3 gallons a week.

                        cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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                        CTrill09
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Fort Bragg
                        Posted by CTrill09 on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:18 PM
                        i dont think i can spare the milk for hobby purposes, im always drinking it for health reasons, i just cant bear to see it going into paint. i wonder if the little bit of milk in the paint would ever start to smell or anything like that over time? i know it sounds stupid i was just thinking that.
                        - Chris
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                        Buddho
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                          March 2003
                        • From: Newport News VA
                        Posted by Buddho on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:32 PM
                        I was wondering the same thing...anything organic might rot or spoil after awhile?

                        Dan

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:39 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by boybuddho

                        I was wondering the same thing...anything organic might rot or spoil after awhile?

                        Dan


                        My concern exactly Dan,

                        And spoiled milk would be in it's own catagory for smell!
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                        shermanfreak
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                          January 2003
                        Posted by shermanfreak on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:19 PM
                        As bizarre as this sounds ..... I think there might be some merit to it.

                        I remember something in the deep, dark recesses of my mind about a whitewash that used milk as one of the ingredients. This was a household paint so this might just work to some degree.

                        What we need is a guinea pig to try this method out.

                        Where's Erush ..... he'll try anything !!!!

                        Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:59 PM
                        A lot of rural, antique furniture was painted with a milk based paint, blue being the most common color. And I've heard of using egg whites as a medium to mix the pigment into. I think both of these use the protiens as a binding agent. It might be worth a go just to see what happens, but I don't think it will ever happen around my Leopold!
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                        wipw
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                          January 2003
                        • From: Utah - USA
                        Posted by wipw on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:23 PM
                        You guys are hitting on my points exactly! I'm not sure I want to have to worry about cleaning milk out of my airbrush, either!! But, who know! Stranger things...

                        Bill ========================================================== DML M4A2 Red Army ========================================================== ========================================================== -- There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". (Author unknown)
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:23 PM
                        If milk is thinned out enough, with say, water (and/or milk) it wont turn...... I used to un-intentionaly run many experiments under my bed when i was a kid, (actually i still run a few in my hobbyroom... lol) and i found thatmilk mixed with alot of water or even soda, doesnt turn!!

                        So perhaps there is SOME merit to this????


                        Perhaps i'll have to give it a go!!??
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:13 PM
                        LOL

                        littlemoe,

                        I really DON'T want to know what's in your hobby room!!Tongue [:P]
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                        chopperfan
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                          November 2003
                        • From: Oklahoma
                        Posted by chopperfan on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:21 PM
                        Okay. You "gun bunnies" gotta quit living these sheltered lives.
                        Almost all have had concerns about the milk spoiling? What do you think Elmer's glue is made from?
                        Have fun modelling, fellow plastic fanatics!!!!!

                        Randie
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                        Dwight Ta-ala
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                          July 2003
                        • From: Philippines
                        Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:32 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by chopperfan

                        Okay. You "gun bunnies" gotta quit living these sheltered lives.
                        Almost all have had concerns about the milk spoiling? What do you think Elmer's glue is made from?
                        Have fun modelling, fellow plastic fanatics!!!!!

                        Randie


                        [:0]

                        Mooooooohhhhh!

                        Big Smile [:D]

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:56 PM
                        hmmmm is that why i havestrong bones????? From eating all that Elmers glue as a kid????
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:06 AM
                        ..hmm.. Airbrushing my tea? I dunno lads..
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                        djmodels1999
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                          December 2002
                        • From: United Kingdom / Belgium
                        Posted by djmodels1999 on Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:45 AM
                        Milk..? Only in my hot choc..!
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:59 AM
                        ...did it say anything about sugar?
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:58 AM
                        Would soy milk make a difference ?
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:23 AM
                        ..and powdered milk?
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:46 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Michaelvk

                        ..and powdered milk?



                        eeeewwwwww now that's just disgusting
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:26 AM
                        how strange... Who wants to be the first to ruin a model trying it??? Big Smile [:D]
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                        wipw
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                          January 2003
                        • From: Utah - USA
                        Posted by wipw on Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:32 PM
                        QUOTE: how strange... Who wants to be the first to ruin a model trying it???

                        I guess since I found the article, it might have to be me. I've still got that old, motorized Tamiya King sitting around for just such a use!! (I wonder if Tamiya ever considered they were making the perfect test bed for so many techniques!! lol)
                        It all kind of makes a wierd sense, in a way, but I definately wouldn't recommend anyone trying to blow Elmer's glue through their airbrush! I will draw the line at trying that!!
                        Bill ========================================================== DML M4A2 Red Army ========================================================== ========================================================== -- There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". (Author unknown)
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:43 PM
                        Wipw,
                        QUOTE: I wonder if Tamiya ever considered they were making the perfect test bed for so many techniques!! lol
                        ... ha ha No doubt... I consitered throwing the two I have away some time ago to make space but then decided they were way to valuable as paint dummys.

                        QUOTE: I definately wouldn't recommend anyone trying to blow Elmer's glue through their airbrush! I will draw the line at trying that!!
                        ......in the words of Joe Dirt "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!Big Smile [:D] that ain't right...
                        Big Smile [:D]Big Smile [:D]
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:15 PM
                        Elmer's Glue from milk? I knew that! But why don't they call it Elsie's Glue? Isn't Elsie the cow Elmer the bull's 'wife'? Bulls don't give milk... last time I looked, not that I looked, but I've just kinda heard. You know?

                        Hmmm. A milk bath, isn't that a beauty treatment? I could sure use one. Do you have to warm the milk in big kettles, then pour it in the tub, or should I try something else?

                        As far as I know, milk will make a good opacifier... I've mixed egg tempra, so why not milk acrylic!? ..if you mix it with a stretched sprue, that is.

                        Ron
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                        nmayhew
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Kent, England
                        Posted by nmayhew on Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:59 PM

                        Laugh [(-D]
                        Kind regards, Nicholas
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                        pdunkel
                        • Member since
                          December 2003
                        • From: Englewood, CO
                        Posted by pdunkel on Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:15 PM
                        If you get chocolate milk from brown cows, where does powder milk come from?



                        A Box??????Clown [:o)]Dead [xx(]



                        Phil Dunkel
                        Phil Dunkel http://photobucket.com/albums/v335/pdunkel/ "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" .........George Orwell "This is a war of unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty. . . "...........Winston Churchill "The only thing neccessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"...............Edmund Burke
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                        mark956
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                          February 2003
                        • From: USA
                        Posted by mark956 on Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:23 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by nmayhew


                        Laugh [(-D]

                        LOL
                        mark956
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:46 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Poniatowski

                        Elmer's Glue from milk? I knew that! But why don't they call it Elsie's Glue? Isn't Elsie the cow Elmer the bull's 'wife'? Bulls don't give milk... last time I looked, not that I looked, but I've just kinda heard. You know?


                        So then.. If a cow gives milk, a bull gives..

                        Oh yuck
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