Hi. I've been reading that people are mixing their own paint if a good match can't be found from paint manufacturers. I am wondering what do you all use to measure the paint, a small spoon or a plastic syringe or something else ? Thanks in advance.

plastic dosing syringe. it's easy to clean and has measurements listed. sometimes I just eyeball it though.

Matt's dosing syringe is the best idea I've heard yet. Thanks Matt, I'll have to pick up one of those.
I have plastic pipettes with graduations on them.
Or I mark black lines on an empty bottle with a Sharpie and do the ratios that way.
Or I just eyeball it.

Walmart sells glass eye droppers in a three pack. You can find them in the pharmacy section of the store, and if you have trouble locating them, just ask the clerk at the prescriptions counter.

These have black rubber bulbs that easily slip off allowing you to use whatever thinner / cleaner you need to clean out the glass tubes. These are cheap as dirt, so you can pick up a couple of packs to have on-hand at the work bench.

Measuring by drops sounds tedious, but it's not really too bad when you consider that you seldom need more than 1/2 oz of paint at a time when you're airbrushing. The eye droppers are also pretty handy to measure out thinners rather than pouring from big bottles or cans.

(You can also measure by full eye dropper instead of by drops if you're just consistant squeezing the bulb.)

Measuring your paint out by color and thinner amounts makes recording your custom color formulas very easy. It also helps to keep your thinner / paint ratios consistant.

Anyways, that's what I use.

HTH,