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Hi all, sorry if this is covered elsewhere, but does anyone have any tips on how to restore/rejuvenate old paint? I've got racks and racks of Citadel Miniatures paint pots, some of them must be 10 years old? I haven't had a proper look in all of them but some haven't been touched in years as I've been out of the scene for a while. The last time I looked I'm sure some were starting to dry up and solidify. Is there a known thinner that is preferred for sorting these paints? I'm hoping that at least the ones that aren't too screwed I can add a little thinners and give them a good shake every now and then to restore them, as it'll be quite expensive to replace the lot! Is there any hope or should I just bin anything that looks dodgy and bite the bullet and start again?

Thanks guys

Nat

hmm, well 10 years is a mighty long time! i myself dont know how to, and my goblin green is getting a little chunky. :(

A few drops of regular ordinary water does the trick for me, if the paint isn´t actually dry.

However, dried paint cannot (afaik) be brought back to life, due to the nature of acrylic paint. Which means it´s water soluble when wet, but not when it´s dry.

(I should at this point insert a sentence saying that this is of cours only my own experience, and in no way meant to be a full survey of the possibilities and limitations of acrylic and other paints, as dictated by the google-fu clans of the interwebs. There, I said it.)

Anyways, back on topic, my advice would be to try bringing them back with water, and if that doesn´t do the trick, bin them.

And then buy colors as you need them, way cheaper that way, than going berzerko on paints, and suddenly having Hawk Turqouise for no apparent reason...

P.S. I still have a few paints in the really really old school hard rubber pots, so old doesn´t necessarily mean useless...