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Hello there

I used mechrite red for over a year and I was very happy with the colour and its covering properties. However, about a month ago I bought a new bottle of it and now that I started using it, I'm wondering what has actually gone wrong with the colour. It leaves a glossy varnish and it covers pretty bad - the effect remind me more of Blood Red and other citadel colours, rather than of foundation colors like Calthan Brown.

Any idea of what might actually happend? Did the composition of foundation colours changed? Or did I buy a flawed product? Or am I just doing something very wrong?

Might seem obvious, but you did you shake/stir the paint before using it?

Funnily enough I've had this happen with a mechrite red before now, I was looking for a red glossy effect at the time, so it didnt really hinder me. I bought another mechrite red, afterwards, which was fine.

Shake it up real good and you may find that the glossy type of stuff is more mixed throughout the paint; thus no problem anymore.

yeah, give the bottle a darn good shake before every use.

Goes for other paints as well.

Shake not stir! Happens all the time!

You may need to give it a bit of stir before shaking it to start the breakup process as it might have all gunked (technical term there) up at the bottom of the pot

Thanks; I tried shaking it but it didn't help at all. Will try stirring it now