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I have given up trying to find a color to use to paint the red/purple for the Tau Stealthsuits without mixing any paints. I found a nice mixture of scab red/scorched brown 50/50. The problem I have is the proportions of the paint. Can I just take a full pot of scab red and a full pot of scorched brown, mix them together in a empty pot without any problems?

Other than the empty pot maybe not being large enough to contain a full pot of red and a full pot of brown...no.

This though, is one of the primary advantages to dropper bottles. You can keep track of the number of drops used of each color and replicate it fairly regularly in the future.

for me, personally, i find the droppers put out a bit too much paint with each drop, and i dislike how gunked up the nozzles get...
not to mention, i'm a P3 paint fanatic...
i do use the Vallejo Air Metals, and love the paints even if i'm not a fan of the bottles...

i use the back of a brush to portion out the drops, so i can control exactly how much paint i mix...
using the same brush all the time, i know exactly how much paint it will grab with a light dab...
i also use the back of the brush to add water and mix...
i'm not a fan of mixing with the bristles...

i keep a paint journal, and write my ratios as 2-1 or 5-1, for example, and then just grab however many dabs of each color i wrote down during the next session...
the paint journal has saved me whenever i come back to a mini i put aside for a few months...

EDIT: got on my soapbox, and neglected to answer the question...hahahaha
just chuck a half of each pot into an empty one...
now you have all you need of your custom mix, plus you still have half a pot of each original that you can use for shadows and highlights...

cheers
jah

Buy the two pots. Keep adding from the one to the other while shaking inbetween. After a while they will have a similar colour. You now have two pots of tau brown. :-)

That's a great idea niiai. Gonna do that in future for my deathwing bone with bleached bone and skull white.

GW pots are typically only half full, so if the mix you want is 50:50 you can just pour one in to the other and be done with it, though you'll end up with a rather full pot of paint which might be hard to shake. However I've done it in the past, I poured a pot of bleached bone in to a pot of Deneb Stone and used that as the base for my Tyranids.

Typically though, I just count the number of brushfulls of paint I use to get an approximate on the ratio I need and then mix it when I need it. Though you need to be careful when you mix paint every time you use it, as over time the paints will start to dry out, probably at different rates, so if you mix 1:1 now, it may not look the same as 1:1 mixed 6 months from now or mixed from new pots of the same colours.

If it's mission critical that the paint is identical from one model to the next, I'll either mix large amounts in a mixing pot or just pour one paint in to the pot of another. I made my "man flesh" colour by pouring a pot of dwarf flesh in to a pot of elf flesh

But be aware, GW aren't consistent with the amount of paint they put in a bottle. So just look carefully at the paint level to see whether it is half full or more than half full and if it's more than half full, don't pour the other paint in to it as it'll become too full by the time you pour the other paint in to it I assume GW are honest and the volume of paint listed on the bottle is the "minimum" they ever pour in to a pot, coz I've seen some pretty large variation from one pot to the next.