hi guys I was wondering.

is it just in holland that the testors paint is so thin? and I mean the paint in jars,
its great for airbrush, but when painting figures its to thin?

Two words here..... "I Agree".

Wonderful paint, but I only can airbrush it.....when painting with a brush it's so thin and so transparent..... It doesn't work for me......

I find this a rather humorous, I have just the opposite problem. I find that I have to thin the paint because it always seems to darn thick. I had thought that I was not getting it mixed well, but regardless of what I do, I always seem to need to thin it. Maybe what we have in the States is different than what is mixed elsewhere.

Testors recently started "prethinning" the 1/2oz. bottles. It started with the Model Master II line, and then went to the rest of the Model Master Paints. Personnaly I've good luck recently airbrushing figs I use a Brown preshade the do the flesh over it. best way to use the current formula. BTW Gunze paints are pretty much the same way. Tamiya is still thick out of the bottle. I'm going to try White Ensigns line of paints soon as they have the full line of RLM colours. Let y'all know when my packeage gets here. STUG

a few weeks ago i got some model master panzer grey.
when i got it home i used a brush and i said its thiner then my other jars of model master.
and it still went on nice with brush.
nw may be i can start airbrushing agian

Well maybe this a silly question, but how much does age affect paint? The store that I purchase most of my paints does not exactly have a high volume of traffic, just a small hobby store that has been around awhile.

I use model master only and I have to thin it to use it in an air brush. I thin it before I use a brush also. I have never had a problem with it covering with a brush of AB.

It all depends on the conditions of the storage place. I've bottles of paint last forever and then again some time paint will dry up in a matter weeks. I've found that as long as the paint settles into its 2 parts it can be salvaged and used till the bottle is gone. I also stir my paints, so I don't realy worry about the pigment being to hard to disolve in the oil base. If you shake your paints and find a bottle thats a bit stubborn in mixing drop a BB in the jar and shake it then. It'll act as an ajitator like in a spraycan. HTH STUG

hmm so its seems that its a dutch thing.

well the fact is we got in new testors paints. I bought a jar used it and its to thin

I washed my resin figure first then I primed it white

then I applied green

well its transparent with spots of green.
last thursday I bought a green from humbrol same routine
instant coverage!