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Made in nz
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Hi Dakka dakka

With the new army painter speed paint 2.0 they say they have fixed the reactivation to two hours of drying time. However I was really happy with the original product as I only have a few hours a week to paint.

Does anyone know how to make a medium that can be added to paint to cause reactivation like the original army painter speed paint?

I know oil paint is an option but it’s not ideal because of the fumes and I don’t have many colours of oil paint.


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Made in au
Anti-Armour Swiss Guard






Newcastle, OZ

Acrylic medium or AP's own "speedpaint medium" used to "thin' acrylic paint will not reactivate the speedpaints. Water was the main problem initially. People watering their paints down instead of using a better medium for doing it.

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Made in gb
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My understanding is that they've re-engineered the binders in speedpaints. New recipe. The reacitivation isn't something that can be brought back by adding something, unfortunately.
   
Made in au
Fixture of Dakka





Melbourne

Yeah, chances are your best bet is too look around for people selling off their old formula speedpaints. People were pretty disgruntled by it, so you may even pick them up somewhat cheap, if folks just want to get rid of them.

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Made in za
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South Africa

Im curious, I've just bought a handful of Speedpaints, how do you tell if they are the 2.0? Cos if they aren't I'm going to have a stern word with the shop.

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