Badger Air-Brush Co.121 Paint Mixer,White

In my humble opinion this is the best thing since sliced bread, round wheels & jelly donuts. I am an avid HO gauge scale modeler and this tool has allowed me to rescue bottles of acrylic paint I thought were "goners". I have a lot of Polly-scale acrylics and Floquil enamels that became "lumpy" over the years, as they are no longer being made I held on to them. I have tried aggressive stirring, shaking and adding BB's to the bottles over the years to no avail. In the first few days of using this wonderful tool I have restored at least a dozen bottles of paint. The tool is easy to use and clean and appears to be a scaled down version of my Cuisinart Smart Stick hand blender. It fits easily into the 1 oz bottles of paint and just like a blender draws the paint from the top to the bottom in an efficient vortex and blends it very well. It also breaks down any "lumps" in the paint and mixes them with the rest of the paint in the bottle. If the paint has settled out completely into a lump on the bottom I recommend using a stir stick to break it up before using this little blender. I have also already mixed a few custom colors and it is really great at creating a even and consistent color throughout the airbrush bottle. This afternoon I tried it out on a 2 oz bottle of Scalecoat enamel (also an extinct brand) and it worked very well with the thicker paint and after adding the thinner (again with this great tool) I was able to airbrush it efficiently. I them inserted it in a small jar of paint thinner. touched the switch for 5-7 seconds and it came out nice & clean. One minor downside... it chews up AA batteries, this can be addressed by using rechargeable batteries which was my solution. If you do any airbrush painting of anything this is an indispensable tool and I highly recommend it... best $20 I've spent in years!

Works great for mixing airbrush paint

This is incredible, it mixes up 20 year old testors paints like a champ! And best of all, no more stupid shaking jars which not only fails to mix heavy pigment clumps stuck to the bottom of the jar, but also gets paint stuck on the bottom of the lid, gluing the lid shut for next time, and causing dried paint to fall back into the jar potentially clogging your airbrush next time.This thing is just great and works perfectly. It really packs a punch! It's so satisfying, I get a smile every time I use it because I know its just obliterating all the clumps of paint pigment at the bottom of the jar!I was also impressed how well balanced it spins, considering the length of the snout and the way the shaft just press fits directly to the motor shaft. It actually balances out with motor RPM. (Although I'm sure if it got bent, it would be violently unbalanced.)Best of all, there's no splashing (as long as you follow the directions and be careful to never spin it when not submerged! I managed to splatter paint all over my workspace once when I accidentally hit the trigger setting it down after I had just mixed a jar of paint and needed 2 hands to screw the lid on... When that happens it splatters paint in 360 degrees and further than you want!)The only downsides are:1. Its kind of long and cumbersome to store when not in use, but the shaft used a metal on metal friction press fit, so I don't feel comfortable removing and reinstalling the shaft each time I use it as I fear it would become looser over time. It doesn't fit back in the box when assembled, and setting it down is somewhat liable to depress the trigger. Unless you want to pop the batteries in and out after every use. All in all not a big deal.2. Once it has wet paint on it, as soon as you remove it from the jar, it's a hair trigger handheld paint splatter disaster waiting to happen..3. The head of the tool (the metal 6 point star that actually does the mixing) is kind of a weird shaped metal piece stamped/clamped onto the end of the shaft, with a few little crevices for paint to hide in after mixing. This makes it hard to ever be certain you've gotten 100% of the paint cleaned off so you don't contaminate the next jar.What I do after use is to VERY CAREFULLY (cautious to not trigger it!) move it to point down inside a wastebasket with a disposable plastic bag lining, and spin it, which will launch virtually all the paint onto the walls of your wastebasket. Then stick it into a jar of thinner and spin it to clean the rest, finished with a final wipe on white paper towel to visually verify no paint remains.Excellent value. Highly recommended to any modeler, you will shake your head at the idea of shaking jars once you use this.

Does a good job of mixing craft paint to use in airbrush.

Quick and easy to use great tool for for small brush paints.

Works amazing to mix paints perfectly

Cheaply made. Given the quality, or lack thereof, and amount of materials used, this should cost a quarter of the current price; half at most.Motor is weak, On/Off switch is loose and activates at the slightest touch, the base of the rod is so loose that it falls off when pointed down.

I either used to use wooden toothpicks to mix up my model paints or I’d just shake the hell out of the bottles. It never seemed to do a very complete job and I’d always have some unmixed, congealed paint at the very bottom of the bottles. This little beauty makes that an issue of the past. It’s got a very efficient little agitator wheel at the end of the stem that does a fantastic job of mixing up your paints. Ideal for the small Testors or Model Master bottles. Unfortunately, this doesn’t appear to be usable in Vallejo paint-style 1.7ml bottles due to the bottle necks being too small to accommodate the agitator wheel on the paint mixer. I’m hoping that some day some clever person will invent a work-around for this issue but, until then, these paints are a consistently great value for the money. Maybe they can come up with an interchangeable mixing stem with a smaller diameter “business end” that would work. Of course, you can always use a separate small plastic cup with a wide mouth for paint mixing and this unit might work just perfectly. Regardless, it’s still a nice little tool to have in your bag of tricks for those paint bottles that WILL accommodate its mixer attachment.