Reply To: Scale 75 paints and paint agitators

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For agitators I’ve used the following:

Stainless/brass bb gun ammo

Pros easy to get hold of, cheap

Cons can react with paint (randomly, think it’s down to defects in individual bbs) , i have some grime paints now, great for terrain, vehicle interiors useless for minis, my “stainless” bbs were in fact coated

Killer con – can clog nozzle of dripper bottle, and you squeeze and pop goes the nozzle with 17+ml of paint flooding your pallet

 

5-8mm Glass beads 

Pros – very cheap I bought 200 for 99p a year or 2 ago on amazon

– inert doesn’t react with paint

Cons – a bugger to retrieve from bottle

– can need several in thick or high pigment paint to mix properly

Killer con – can clog nozzle of dripper bottle, and you squeeze and pop goes the nozzle with 17+ml of paint flooding your pallet

 

Marine grade stainless M5 nut

Pros – properly stainless steel (buy from a good ebay chandler)

– heavy, just need one in any paint to mix it properly

– Doesn’t clog dropper bottles

– easy to retrieve with a magnet or tweasers

Cons – most expensive option about 2p a nut when i bought a 100…

 

So these days all new paints get nuts, the rest of my paints have glass beads in them, and the ones with bbs have been replaced.