Tinting household paints

[Deburred -]

Hi all

I wonder whether anyone has any experience doing this. Basically I have a fairly unambitious need for some mid grey paint but given the amount of white satin I have lying around, if there's a known method for DIY tinting, I'd be 100% up to give it a go rather than shell out for more. Any thoughts, sources, experience?

Cheers

Dan

[Ant -]

I've mixed model paints before and its just been a case of make sure you're mixing like paints so they don't react in some way you weren't expecting so one option is to get a small quantity of dark grey or black paint of the same kind and blend till you get the desired result. Mixing well is the best bit of advice I can give you don't want it to start changing shade half way as you found an untouched pocket of white.

The other thing to factor in is make enough for the job before you start. Its something you mixed and unless you do very precise 1 part this for 10 parts that you won't hit the same blend twice.

Could be worth talking to the person on the mixing counter at BnQ as their machine does the measures accuratly but if they can tell you where to get the dye that could be an option too.

Kind regards 

Ant

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[Jonathan Hodgson]

Tester pots are a good way to get small quantities of similar paints. What I will say though is that the colour you wind up with will probably not be what you had in mind. I tried doing my own tints once, and the colour in the pot was never quite what I thought it would be adding that tester (I guess because "white" is not really the neutral base you imagine) and then though a quick test patch might look ok, by the time it covered a wall it would look different again (might not have been so bad with a stronger colour, the "hint of" adds up).
I gave up in the end, but that's not to say I didn't get good results, I just didn't get the results I wanted.

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[JJ]

Test the ratio on a small quantity first as it doesn't take much.  A mate tried to create his own 'white with a hint of...' and ended up buying so much more white to tone it down to the subtle shade he wanted that he'd have been better off to start again.