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szuiderveen

September 06, 2008 11:02AM

Registered: 16 years ago
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Adam,

For a miniature, I would use a finer grade of graphite. I predated you by a few years at the "Huck", and in the Daugherty era we thinned it with mineral spirits. In general, if you didn't have some mineral spirits in the mix, it turned from gray to brown much faster.

Steve

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