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Dave,
I can help you out in the color mixing and supply avenues if you want, I work in a paint store and have for the last 4 years, with a short hiatus when I roofed (what was I thinking?). I have a lot of color mixing experience and I would suggest buying a color wheel and a set of UTCs (Unversal Tinting Compounds). The color wheel can really help you when correcting colors, for example, if you were making an olive color and it came out looking too green, finding green on the color wheel and adding the color (RED) which is directly across from it will cancel out the green. It takes some practice, but it beats having quarts mixed, the best thing to do would be to buy a gallon of each base, pastel, medium, deep and ultra and tint them using the UTCs. Mixing colors that are premade, you never really know what colors go into them so you will end up with grey purples etc. And having the bases and UTCs would allow you to mix small quantities of any color you can think of. Other helpful hints would be to buy penetrol to mix with your colors... not you whites or pastels though it yellows light colors. This would make it spray better and give it some translucency for pearl-x pigments ets. I have considered going to oils myself but the mess is too much for me along with the slow dry times. Hope this helps and if you need something let me know.
-Dave
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