"How large is your paint collection?" Topic

We talk about our growing Lead or Plastic Mountains quite a bit. How many find they have a significant collection of paint as well? I just assembled and filled my second Paintier with Minitaire paints to rest along side my Valejo Air case, Foundry triad boxes and reaper master series paints. My first paintier is filled with really old GW, new Coat d'Arms, some craft paints and Cel vinyl.

I could stop adding paints any time I wanted. Really.

I retail both Vallejo and Coat d'Arms so "own" probably 150. But in reality I probably only use 50 or 60 regularly.

I probably own around 75 bottles, but that includes some duplicates.

Probably about 50 current paints and around 30 older paints I havent used in a while

Since I tend to mix my own, I've only got about 24 tubes of Acrylic and another 12-16 bottles of craft paint for terrain projects, oh, and. 10 jars of Tamiya for armor.

Used to be quite large, but sadly many have dried up over the years/decades.

Best guess: 150+

well over a hundred. A mix of craft paint, vallejo, GW and privateer press.

Possibly a 100 or so. A mixture of acrylics, enamels and washes. Oh I forgot the spray paints …….

I have all what I need..

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In pounds or bottles?

110-120ish. Mostly PPP, with Vallejo second (and growing), a little over twenty Citadel (though only three bought in the last 15+ years- two are pushing 30!).

Not counting spares, "mixing stock", and craft paint I use on basing and scenics.

Enough to fill a shoe box plus a couple of dozen others in a drawer. Mainly Humbrol (still!) with an increasing proportion of Vallejo and a mix of others.

Complete set of Vallejo, plus various others….say 200+

Enough to cover an area bigger than A3, mostly Vallejo.

Over 200 & all acrylics

About 60 I think.

I have about 160 bottles.

Easily 200+.

Christopher

350+ acrylics, mainly a mix of Foundry, Reaper, Vallejo, Coat d'arms, Revell,(MP) Miniature paints & Humbrol Matt Scarlet

Way over 100…mostly Vallejo Model, Panzer Aces, Reaper, Foundry, Vallejo Game, artists acrylics, and watercolor, craft acrylics, washes, inks, some AK primer, Andrea, and finally, some Citadel acrylics and washes from the late '90s, which are still good.

28,000….. but that's stock :-)

Mike

150 or so, but that includes the craft paint I do not use as much anymore.

200 plus…Vallejo, GW, P3 and prob. 100 craft paints…damn, that is a lot!

100 – 150 and still could use some more. I don't like to mix my own colors.

Sigh… Still looking for that perfect color of Brown Blue Green or whatever. So I have several hundred bottles. Some of the older green ones appear to have something moving in them. Strains of the sound track from "Little shop of horrors" seems to be emanating from somewhere behind a cob web covered bin behind the reds.

Hundreds! Out of control. I have FOUR of those revolving paintiers and every one is crammed way past orthodox capacity with various sizes and makes of paint. Hobby paints and craft paints alike. Excess bottles live in storage tubs. And I have NINE large tubs full of spares and hoarded stock under my paint table. Of course, half the time I pull out a replacement I find it's long since died of neglect. Money wasted after all. On the other hand, sometimes my twenty-year and thirty-year old stash pays off.

I lost count of the bottles, and just measure in "drawers". I'm up to 6.

- Ix

Close to 250, all acrylics

I currently get by with 36 pots and bottles of acrylic paint.

Cheers,

TW

It might be best to just weigh it.

I have plastic shoebox-sized storage box with paints. There are probably less than 40 pots. I also have a banker's box with probably 10 or 15 cans of spray paint. That's it.

30 -40 so I'm beaten badly, but only painting a few different armies may be the reason.

Around 250. All but one are acrylics.

140+. And quite a bit of yellow (many shades) that I'm finding difficult to use up… ;-)

My main palette is about 30 bottles. I have about the same number again in stock. I have a few enamels that I use for basing.

100 on the main rack, with forty extra, mostly duplicates and "my little pony" paint for the kids (I am currently using all their different shades of purple on one figure, though).

Almost all are craft paint, with a few Foundry, Army Painter, and Howard Hues.

Latest addition: a big pot of Citadel Seraphim Sepia. It's a perfect consistency I haven't seen from them in more than a decade. Worth the price.

Oldest paint: A jar of Ral Partha Aged Armour circa 1995, that's in better shape than some paints produced this year.

How large is your paint collection?

An order of magnitude smaller that my lead mountain

However neither number is anything to be proud of and I would not like to be audited

Part of my problem is every time I read a good article on painting I buy the paints mentioned ….

John