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A Lesson On Patience: Shaking Vallejo PAints

1/8/2016

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     My friends know of my fascination with painting miniatures. It is a hobby that I not-so-recently picked up, mostly as a way of learning new things while having fun with one of my favourite franchises. I started out with Games Workshop's Warhammer, and have slowly branched out to Warhammer 40,000 and other games and collections. Over the course of learning techniques and skills in painting, I am also faced with this undying problem of shaking my paints.
     Shaking one's paints is an integral part of the hobby, though one I never thought existed until I started. Citadel paints is quite nice, they shake easily and they cover easily. But Vallejo Game Color, I love the prices and the bottles they come in. But they settle at the bottom far too quickly.

     Shaking these paints is a test of patience, it seems. And physical endurance. They require so much shaking due to the pigments settling easily. When I think I am done shaking, I realize I have to shake some more. And even then, a little bit more does not seem to be enough.

     As a result, I've taken to more aggressive methods of shaking these paints. I think about how five Deathwing Terminators, under the leadership of my younger sister who wanted a try at commanding Space Marines, routed thirty angry cultists in two turns. I think about the 2+ armour saves where I rolled 1's. I think about The End Times, and how a lovely world I was just beginning to know about came to an end.

     As I reflect on these things, and sense the frustration growing, I shake vigorously and thoroughly.

     I have to find something I can use as an agitator for these paints. Glass beads or something of that sort would probably do, but where in this country do I find those?
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