Scale75 woes (specifically Fluor)

[Evil Eye]

Shortly before the lockdown I was in my FLGS and they had a set of the Scale75 fluorescent paints, so I bought them. I've heard good things about these paints, with them having very good pigment and being a blender's delight- plus, I'll be honest, the appeal of bright fluorescent colours was too great.

 

So imagine my surprise when after giving them a good shake (as recommended) and putting some onto my palette, they were absolute hell to work with!

 

My initial efforts (using them as a basecoat) I'm disregarding as I've since found out that they're not meant for that kind of painting. But even with that in mind I can't quite get them to work; having re-basecoated the coils of the plasma cannon on my Dreadnought with white, I still found that these things are nigh-impossible to get "right". Out the bottle they're VERY thick, and resulted in results more suited to a  THIN YOUR PAINTS meme. But if you add the SLIGHTEST bit of thinner, the coverage goes to absolutely nothing. It's like they only have two settings- too thick and too thin.

 

What's going on? Is it just the Fluor paints that do this? Is it S75 as a whole? Am I doing something wrong or are these paints just totally unsuited to my style of painting? I know some people swear by them, but these people tend to be very high-level miniature painters with a very specific style. I haven't tried airbrushing them yet so there's that?

[Bung]

I use them alot but dont have the fluo paints as i use Createx for that.

Scale Colors dont react well to some thinners. Try only to use water.

Then shake them really good. If you think it was enough, shake them again.

Personly i add 2 agitator balls to every scale bottle.

[The_Chaplain]

Yep, agitator balls are a necessity with s75 paints.

[Magos Takatus]

Yeah, I found the same with Green Stuff World Fluor paints. I think it's just a property of that kind of paint sadly. GSW make fluor pigments so you can mix them with whatever consistency you want in theory.

[DarkMark]

They definitely need to be 'learned'. Vince Venturella gives a good demonstration of their use here.

 

A useful video about usage and comparison. 

[sarabando]

Scale 75 need the buggery shaken out of them before.you can use them way more than any other paint I've ever used, plus as above agitators are a must. I picked up some glass ones off Amazon for a couple of quid and they have worked great

[White Wolf]

Use a badger paint stirrer with an agitator ball bearing. Thin with Vallejo airbrush thinner.

That’s how I do it.

I’ve adapted the badger paint stirrer with a different end to get it to fit in the dropper bottle