Dear paintingverse,
when I decided I wanted to try #painting with #acrylics I bought a few 20 ml tubes, because I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a new hobby, even if the price per liter was significantly higher, and I expected to only paint on A6 / postcard size, like I do with watercolours. They weren't metal tubes like I was used to in the 1800s :D but transparent plastic.
And then I got into myself some ideas on a bigger scale, and now I'm buying *huge*¹ 120 ml tubes. However I've found that the smaller tubes are quite convenient to use when painting on small scale on a cramped desktop, which is something I'm not planning to stop doing.
Does anybody have any experience with refilling smaller plastic paint tubes from of bigger ones? Is it even doable? If it is, I'd expect it's better to use the same brand/line/colour of paint, and possibly to avoid a complete refill, and only doing limited amounts at a time, to prevent wastage in case the biocides fail at their work and there is spoilage.
Also, I'm thinking I could either try to refill from the opening, or cut the seal at the bottom and easily refill from there, but then I'd need a solution to close it back in a way that doesn't let air in.
I guess that the alternative would be to buy empty metal tubes of the kind used by people who make their own paints, but that's too easy, right?
¹ I know :D
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •quando è suonata la sveglia Draco aveva appena chiesto a Ginny di sposarlo
per disperazione, perché si era appena scoperto che lei era l'altra metà di una profezia macGuffinosa che coinvolgeva la salvezza del mondo (e una dose di prestigio purosangue nel frattempo)
e adesso non saprò mai la sua risposta!
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua è dura prendere il treno (all'orario giusto) senza sveglia :D
(e sono anni che ho intenzione di implementare “fai il ciclo luci senza poi suonare” sulla sveglia per i giorni in cui non c'è da prendere il treno, ma non l'ho ancora fatto O:-) )
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