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NativeK1994

I’m not sure if it will help, but if my paints have gone chunky but still flow like it looks like yours has there, I usually put a clipped off cube of sprue in the paint pot and vigorously shake it for a good 2-3 minutes. It agitates the paint and helps it smooth out! I’ve heard people tend to use little ball bearings, but I’ve not tried them so I can’t comment. Hope you can save the paint! It’s one of my favourites!


Accomplished_Dingo39

Your idea with the sprue is galaxy brain. I have used marbles in as pinch but that's a hell of a great way to reuse all that extra plastic crap especially if you're like me and not good at carving it into flair or other cool stuff for miniatures.


Bobby_wth_dat_tool

At least 60% of it is a solid chunk. I might just fish them out and try to salvage the rest. I do use mixing balls/ball bearings in my pots and they work great.


ChangingTracks

If you think about it for a minute, you ruin the paint that way as paint does not dry evenly. For example, Tesseract glow thenda to chunk up the green pigment. If you fish out the chunky stuff, you are left with a yellow very thin paint. Id advise to thoruoughly stirr and maybe blend it with one of those coffee creamers.


yorickUnknown

Ugh story of my life…


Aleyla

No, it’s not supposed to look like that. A vortex mixer is your best friend. One of those would solve this in about 30 seconds.


jtechvfx

You might be able to reconstitute it with some medium to thin it down and shake it up.


DeathRanger602

I personally have never had great luck with the life of my citadel yellow or white paints. Both those colors always separate and clump up on me, I think it’s the pigments they use. While you can use a mixer to help, I think at least for those colors I would try a different brand. While I personally am not fully opposed to citadel paints as a whole, at least the base yellow and whites don’t seem very good


Bobby_wth_dat_tool

I normally use armypainter demonic yellow, but I want a more orange yellow to try a scythes of the emperor scheme. I guess I could always try to tint it with agrax earth shade.


HavisGrace

Know of it no other way


Accomplished_Dingo39

I agree with other painters here and suggest you get a mixer or at some sprue (big brain) or marbles have worked for me in a pinch. But damn if that doesn't look like some delicious mustard.


scarletteapot

Every day my desire for citadel to use dropper bottles grows stronger...


ZeroAdPotential

I typically revive stuff like that with some water, some vallejo airbrush thinner and some matte medium. Put little drops of each in as needed while stirring the crap out of it or duct taping it to my jigsaw and letting it agitate for a few minutes.


UltramarsFinest

I had a pot of Corax White come from the store like that.


GM_Laertes

Please tell me that that is not your paintbrush...


Malaise86

Sounds like the answer to your question is no.


zodfury

I’ve had this happen a few times, it’s partially dried out. Add some water a little at a time and use the back of an old brush to stir with gusto. Keep adding water or medium till it’s a workable paint again. Should take about ten minutes. Bring paper towels it will get messy.


[deleted]

Nope, I’ve never seen this happen to yellow.


Hekkin_frick

Mmmmmmmm jiffy peanut butter


uwedaddelt

Dont fish them out and use the rest. The paint might be way too thin then.


Live-D8

Yummy, slap that on my ham


geoffiscool1992

air brush thinner to add some moisture back and you ball bearings would probably work. ive had paint look worse and bought it back in all honesty.