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General Ship Modeling: Painting & Color Schemes
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Mixing white ensign paints.
redneck
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Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007 - 06:19 PM UTC
Well I’ve got a can of white ensign paint that’s too dark for what I went so I plan on adding some white to it. The problem is the only white enamel paint I have is MM.
Would it be possible to mix the 2 brands together or would this create problems?

I would just try it and see but I would hate to risk wasting the paint I have if I don’t have to.
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Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007 - 06:48 PM UTC
Jacob, my friend, quite honestly, I've learned the hard way to NOT mix different manufacturers products, although I personally have never tried this one. . .so, no help from my end, but hey, you can try a tiny bit, and paint it on a scrap piece to see what happens. . .I would be curious to see if it would work well or not.
You could always shoot John Snyder an e-mail at WEM to get his input, as well.
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Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007 - 09:35 PM UTC
My knee jerk answer is yes. They are both enamels and reduce with petroleum distillates such as mineral spirits. Trust but verify. Mix a couple of drops of each paint. If they are not compatable they will either gel or will not go into solution. If they appear to mix well, reduce and either spray or brush a scrap piece of styrene and see if it dries in a reasonable amount of time.

Hope this helps.
Don
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Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 01:37 AM UTC
Thanks.
I’ll give it a try then and let you guys know how things work out.
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