Use a strainer on the suction tube in the sprayer bottle. sunlight is a good drying source or warm weather in the shade.
The masking is alway a toss up, I have used the blue tape, the green frog tape and Testors makes or has a masking tape...I have seen Polly S that would come right off and some you can not remove no matter what. gale hall ----- Original Message ----- From: Thorin Marty To: [email protected] ; S-Scale-ProgreSSive ; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 11:15 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Lumpy paint clogs airbrushes Good morning: Gee. I discovered that lumpy paint clogs airbrushes. I really, really, really had to put on my thinking cap for that one! And I am a gen-u-whine ed-u-kated per-sun. <Tongue-in-cheek> <grin> I have tried various ways to mix this bottle of paint but the lumps are dried paint; not the wonderful colour sludge at the bottom of the bottle. I know, I know. Discard the bottles and purchase fresh, new bottles for every airbrush project. But discarding stuff rubs my grain the wrong way. There is nothing wrong with this paint if I could filter it first. I looked at coffee filters and believe it to be too fine. I looked at cheesecloth and decided it was too coarse. Mixing for five minutes straight with a Badger paint mixer does wonders but not for dried paint. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to filter Polly S so the fine pigment gets through but the blobs do not? Thorin
