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Mr. color paint mixing
olivepython
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Western Australia, Australia
Joined: January 10, 2014
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Posted: Friday, February 07, 2014 - 02:58 PM UTC
hey everyone,
I've just bought the gunze sanyo Mr. color Khaki green. When i tried to mix it with artists acrylic white the white when all clumpy and wouldn't mix with the green.
does anyone know what is happening?
cheers
sam
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Posted: Friday, February 07, 2014 - 03:21 PM UTC
Mr color is a synthetic lacquer , the thinner is mr color thinner . you would not by chance got mr hobby aqueous hobby color did you ? What was the number of the khaki green ?
Grauwolf
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Posted: Friday, February 07, 2014 - 04:19 PM UTC
Gunze Sangyo Mr. Color is a lacquer(solvent)based paint and
should only be mixed with similar paint.

The artist acrylic white probably uses additive binders which
negatively react with the lacquer.

Get some Gunze Sangyo Mr. Color white.

Cheers,
Joe
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