AllSeeingSkink wrote:This might be my problem. Since I'm thinning my paint in the cup itself, maybe it's partly drying out a bit before I even get the thinner in to it and causing it to clog more easily.
I am thinking I'll get some Vallejo Model Air colours or maybe some Minitaire paints, as I spend more than half the time just getting the paint from the pots in to the airbrush and thinning them. I never really felt the need for dropper bottles before, but they seem a bit more necessary now.
Many of my citadel paints have chunks of dried paint in them just because of the crappy pots, so I'm not sure it's worth putting them in dropper bottles at this point as I don't want those chunks going through my airbrush anyway. Just rebuy some of the citadel colours I need, put them in droppers, and then replace the others with P3, Vallejo or Minitaire.
Before Airbrushing, paints really should be strained (and no, I usually don't do it either). However, if you're going to transfer paint from one bottle to another I recommend that you do strain them. Some people use old nylons, but as my wife doesn't wear them I had to buy something. Dick Blick sells strainer funnels under "Artist's Paint Strainers". The are the exact same ones sold by Micro-mark, but available individually.
