"How Old is Your Paint?" Topic

On a scale of 1 (new) to 10 (prehistoric), how old are the paints you use for painting miniatures?

3-4 years old, with some going on 15+, so I guess a '10'.

My newest are about 4 years and my oldest ancient so say 8 or maybe higher.

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Very……

A 2 in a few cases, but probably a 10 in many/most.

All of above

I have no idea what constitutes either "new" or "prehistoric" as regards paints. I bought a bottle and a tube Wednesday, but some of the tube acrylics date to at least 2003. Some of the Howard Hues could be that old. Everything else is in between.

I hate to think how old some of my paints are.

I've got some original GW paints still unused.

Bought some yesterday but still have some oils and inks from … well, let's say 20th Cent.

So maybe all of 1 to, say 8?

Phil

Varies from 1998 to 2016.

I have some as old as the mid 1980s and some as new as a couple of weeks. The bulk is from around 2006-08.

7

I bought some this year, but I also still have some from when I moved to vegas from San Diego 21 years ago.

I have some GW pots that are 20+ years old now. Still going strong.

Still using Polly S that I had stockpiled in fear it would be discontinued someday. I hate that my fears were grounded.

I have paint that is less than a month old, and some that is over 20 years old. Once in a while an old one bites the dust, but not often.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

8

I've snif, just had to put down a bottle of Poly-S Armor Dark Grey from the 1980s. It went down to a last few dregs I couldn't get out of the bottom of the bottle.

When I was forced to face it's impending doom, I launched a campaign to paint as much as I could with it, because this color would obviously match my earlier-painted stuff. I got 30+ 15mm tanks done and about 8 FLAK guns.

It was a truly noble bottle of paint.

Some as old as 2001.

I have a good many bottles of old GW paints circa 1992-3, so a 10+.

Heck, I still have the old Armory horse color set, the CSA set and the Union set.
How long is Armory out of business?

Oh, and a bottle of Native American Skin from the Musket Minis paint line. The best "weathered skin" paint ever.

Is "Native American" allowed?

I have used most of my original 1990's GW paints but I have a few left. I have 8 year old craft paints, 6 yr old Foundry paints, 2-3 year old reaper paints, some valllejo, a few new gw pots plus my 1-2 year old airbrush paints.

I have some Armory paint…

My paint is so old,

that it has more lead in it, than most of my miniatures have!

Some old, some not so old, some new.

Lets see, I am still using Ral Partha and Polly S from the late 80 so is that a 7 or 8?

I have some Citadel colour still going strong which was bought in about 1999 and some Humbrol acrylic paint from 1987 which sounds like its still liquid but have not opened for years.

Well, I don't actually paint miniatures with it, but I still have a bottle of Comet brand model paint from the late 1950's or early 1960's, and it is still liquid.

I have paints ranging from 1 to 10. The oldest ones are from the 1970s and 1980s. I have a few Heritage brand acrylics as well as Polly S. The oldest paints I have are Humbrol oils still in their tins that I bought around 40 years ago. Occasionally I will open one of these. If the solvent has not evaporated, I usually can recover the paint using mineral spirits. These days I just hate the smell of using mineral spirits so I try not to use them. I still consider those Humbrol paints to be the best paints for plastic models.

For those of you looking for Poly-S; I think "Trains and Lanes" in Easton PA has quite a selection of "new old-stock".

If you're desperate for a particular color, message me, and next time I'm out that way I'll check for you :)

Most is 12-15 years old.

Using those criteria, ancient. Still have GW paints from the 80's that work better than some newer paints I've bought.

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 7 7 8 8 10+ 10+ 10+ 10+ 10+

It's deceptive, though … all the 10+ ones are large bottles of stock colors (my 'basic' white, black, red, blue, and yellow) and the rest are smaller ones. Most of the stuff on the low end are browns (one yellow ochre) and metallics. The 4-8's are a variety of colors.

Still have a few bottles of Polly S that promise to be non-toxic. Always wondered just why they stopped telling us that …

5 – 7

I have some very old paint, but most within the 5 – 7 years old and a couple of very new (just a couple).

Tony

The oldest paints in my box are probably over 10 years old. The newest are from earlier this year.

Most are 10-12 years old. Although I just received some new Matisse fluid range

the youngest 2 months, the oldest…1986 (the math makes me feel old)

A few of them would probably rate 10, since I bought them in the 1990s. The label is "AD&D Paints." Others are a mix of Ral Partha, Reaper, and Citadel. I have a couple of new paints as well.