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It's an un opened Militarium camo. I've gave it a good shake and its not mixing. Is this a bad batch?


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I've got 0 experience with contrast paint so this might be totally worthless advice but hey-ho...

It's not uncommon for enamels to need physically stirring rather than just shaking, and while Contrast aren't enamels, maybe give that a go?

Sometimes you need an agitator to help with the mixing. A neat way is to use a small glass ball bearing (there's loads on ebay). Using a glass one means that it won't react with the paint, whilst also having the firmness and weight to move around rather than be held by the paint.

Metal ones can run a risk of rusting (spoils paint) whilst plastic will just get suspended in the paint and not move around.

Then when your'e shaking the ball moves around to help churn up the paint. It's the very same thing you get in a spray can of paint when you rattle it whilst shaking.



Another method is to use a stick or such, something firm that won't break and lets you stir the paint. The issue here is that you will lose some paint; how much depends on how careful you are, but you will lose some on the body of the stick.



Some paints need a lot of shaking, some of the cheap nail polish shakers can be a good way to get things started and take some of the strain out of shaking - though if there's a thick deposit you might have to mix the polish shaker and your own arm shaking.

Having the same issue with various pots. Someone in another forum called it 'clouding,' the term is new to me.

Not sure if it arrived this way or happened after I opened the pot. The paint appears to work as described despite the clouding.

Tried stirring the paint with a wooden skewer to no effect. I think it's just a cosmetic defect.

You haven't been shaking it hard enough, I bought a pot of apothecary white today and it took about 10 minutes to stimulate all of the pigment that settled on the bottom of the pot.

Using the paint without doing that gives poor results.

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You haven't been shaking it hard enough, I bought a pot of apothecary white today and it took about 10 minutes to stimulate all of the pigment that settled on the bottom of the pot.

Using the paint without doing that gives poor results.

I shook the dam thing so much I had to give up. The white stuff is solid it's not going anywhere. So I opened it and used it on a primaris and I'm happy with how it turned out. It's basically a wash, since its so runny it does'nt need shaking unless you want it in the lid of the pot and to wipe paint off the brush. Maybe for other contrast paint you need to shake it but not this one.

Are you sure it's not the plastic that has the crud in?

There have been some problems with the new citadel line up. I think factory side.

Local store got restocked.. a goodly portion of the bottles had leaked in shipping. Some of the contrast viscosity seemed off. Contrast paints are about halfway between a normal paint and a gel paint.

Multiple bottles of Corax White that were like taffy with completely dry pigment clusters inside. I saved the one I bought by using a LOT of medium. Like 3ml worth as it didn't come with enough medium, as in almost none.

Soooo.. yeah production problems sending sub-par to stores? Where did we run into that before.. oh yeah failcast.