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So I've noticed most other companies that produce paint to be used on miniatures do so in convenient little bottles that you squeeze out one drop of paint at a time from onto a pallet. This makes it really convenient to mix colors. Accurate too. It's easy to accurately mix three drops of brown for every one of white.

But what about GW paints which most of us probably use? Do you just glob it onto the pallet with your paint brush and eyeball the mixture ratio? Anyone stoop to an eye dropper? How do you get the same ratio twice?

whocares wrote:So I've noticed most other companies that produce paint to be used on miniatures do so in convenient little bottles that you squeeze out one drop of paint at a time from onto a pallet. This makes it really convenient to mix colors. Accurate too. It's easy to accurately mix three drops of brown for every one of white.

But what about GW paints which most of us probably use? Do you just glob it onto the pallet with your paint brush and eyeball the mixture ratio? Anyone stoop to an eye dropper? How do you get the same ratio twice?

The obvious answer is put the stuff in a dripper bottle lol. The dip-and-swab onto a Wet Palette method is a great one too.

I tend to use plastic droppers - the kind that you find in a chemistry lab.

One for paint and one for water gives me a nice easy way to control dilutions