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Restoring old paints?

Discussion in 'Painting and Converting' started by Bmac, Feb 11, 2019.

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    Bmac New Member

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    I have some old paints that are pretty dried up. I've restored them with some distilled water, Lahmian Medium and a toothpick. It worked pretty good I was just wondering what other tricks and techniques were out there.
     
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    Tamiya Paint thinner :) it is a lacquer thinner base. Does the same thing as a bit of ammonia in terms of breaking the polymer chains which may have began the crosslinking process.
    If paint is not super solid, water and mediums usually work fine :)
     
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    I use mechanical friction (breaking chunks of paint), distilled water, some sort of acrylic matte medium, ammonia.
     
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