"How much paint do you have?" Topic

Paint bottles, pots, cans, tubes, etc. How many of these do you have for painting miniatures and terrain?
As for myself, about 80 bottles- about half GW and half craft paints.

Like you 80-100 btls. The real question is how many have not dried out.

Way over that, but I imagine much of it is now unusable.

Close to 200.

Three Paintier 80s full, plus.

About 2 square feet of bottles, viewed from the top.

Oh.. and about 20 empty primer cans in the shed.

Yep. Haven't counted but I've got more tucked away, just in case.

About 50-60 in my travel box and another 200+ in my game room. I hate mixing and buy any new color I see that I like.
Vallejo, GW, Reaper, Polly S and others as well as pretty much every brand of craft paint.

When a local FLGS went out of business I purchased the Vallejo rack, the Testors Marine Series rack, the regular Testors/old Polly S rack and the GW paint rack. They are mostly full along with a box of Reaper paint, a box of Howard Hues and a box of Tamiya.

As Extra Crispy is to rules, I am to paint.

I've got maybe 70 or 80 bottles. But this is no less than the 3rd time that I have largely reconstituted my paint collection from scratch, having lost or disposed of previous iterations of my paint collection.

Half my current lot is Vallejo, the rest are a mix of Reaper, GW, and a few Tamiya, craft paints, etc.

I would guess at least 200 --

Like the guy above, dunno how many are still good.

mjc

Approx 120 bottles of Americana and Delta Ceramcoat mostly.
A smttering of Vallejo and others.
12 or so cans of spray paint for undercoats and Krylon for finishing.

over 1,000

yikes!

I estimate somewhere between 200 – 300 acrylics, but it could be more. A mixture of Miniature paints (?), Vallejo, Humbrol, GW, Coats d'Arms, etc

I have a ready-use shoebox full of the ones I use regularly (brush and palette on the top), plus half a drawer full of unopened ones to restock. Goodness knows how much that is.

My paint used for basing and terrain, is all household emulsion, so I'm not sure of a litre of Dulux counts as one 'pot' or not. That lives in the garage apart from the small match pots I keep in the house.

I keep my Ronseal matt varnish in the cellar along with my litre tubs of PVA.

The ready use box probably only has around 50 pots in.

About 50.

Over 200. I counted them recently because I was thinking of buying some proper paint-racks.

About 120. All GW and Vallejo.
I still have the GW pots with the white cap…and I'm only 38!!!!!

Heading in the opposite direction here.

After going through many 100's of bottles from every maufacturer and then some, I'm now heading towards just five main colors: red, blue, yellow, burnt umber and white. There are a few specialty colors still required, however 99% of colors I use come from the main five.

Similarly, I've been through countless metallics until discovering Vallejo Model Air metallics, now I don't even need to take my shoes and socks off for the total bottle count.

My game painting consumables break down like this:

Acrylic Hobby paint (mostly Vallejo)- Just shy of 100 bottles.

Acrylic Craft Paint (mostly 2oz Americana and Folk Arts)- roughly 100-120.

Spray Paints/Primers/Sealers-several dozen cans.

I also have about a dozen 1 gallon cans of "oops" house paints from Home Depot in various shades of green and brown for making terrain boards. Then there are all the miscellaneous things like black gesso, acrylic gel medium, Windsor&Newton acrylic flow improver and inks, metallic medium, a handful of artist brush pens, micron pens, and other stuff like that gets used in the painting process.

And this topic reminds me I need to buy a larger portable storage box and that I need to consolidate..

Way too many! But, I am always looking for that perfect shade of brown, or blue, or green, or …….

Far too much – then I look in my mate Del's painting room and realise I've hardly got any!

I thought it was about 400. However, I noticed that I had 4 of the paint rack spinners full. That's 480. Plus I have another 200 or so in drawers or boxes. So, I'd guess closer to 700.

Thanks,

John

Around 200 but I haven't counted lately.

close to 200 , all different kinds . lately I have been using Vallejo and reaper in the drop bottles .

Hundreds of bottles, but never the right one when I need it (smile).

Dan

Acres and gallons.

Lots. I have the entire GW line including inks, washes, and metallics, most of the Vallejo line, plus lots of Reaper, Coat D'Arms and craft paints. I have no idea how many as they're spread out in various places. I probably regularly use only 100 of them.

Steve
cavalcadewargames.com
nycjadie.wordpress.com

I have 5 shelves each 60 cm long of GW and Vallejo plus a few spares of popular colours – I guess that is about 120 bottles
Mick

I bought the entire Reaper Pro line, and some handfulls of various bottles of GW, P3, Foundrys and Adikens…

Counting primers and gesso, maybe 120.

Which is always 1 less than I need.

So much that I have a box full of dried out GW paints, and have at least three times that much in other GW, Reaper, Vallejo, and other paints. Luckily I got most of those GW paints at an extreme discount.

Probably about 150-175 bottles, mostly craft paints (Delta being the most preferred brand), a few bottles of Tamiya paint.

More than I really need

About 110-130 paints.

Mainly Vallejo Model Colour browns. I also have some Reaper pastels that I love, some Derivan reds that are the best flat reds I've found for my purposes, a number of Citadel Foundation paints, and a fair few Taminya grey acrylics. There are a few Privateer P3 paints and some old style white lid Citadel paints that have lasted forever!

Suffice to say, I had to bin a metric load of screw lid Citadel paints which ed me off to no end.

I also use cheap white and black gesso and Jo Sonja Flow Medium.

I've run all these brands through the airbrush at some point. I don't use canned paint much (apart from a couple of those handy Taminya cans).

I've got about 20 odd el cheapo craft paints waiting for use on terrain, and a couple of big bottles of brown and green paint that I use for the same.

About 70 or so for painting miniatures. Roughly half of those are Vallejo, with the rest a mix of GW, Tamiya and maybe a half-dozen Humbrol enamels still holding on.
About a dozen tubes of cheap acrylic craft paint that I use for basing and terrain.

Cheers,
Paul.

Whew- there are some real paint hogs on this board. Great to see so many paints collected. I have to say that paints are one of the best investments for me. If looked after properly, they last for a very long time and because I don't paint army-sized forces, I don't go through them very quickly. Paint!
Thanks for all the interesting and excessive answers!