robert piepenbrink  | 02 Apr 2026 1:47 p.m. PST |
Working on paint storage--new unit for dropper bottles is supposed to arrive from Litko tomorrow--and I was a little shocked by just how many bottles there are in the house. So two potential poll questions:
1) How many bottles is a reasonably complete set?
a) Up to 50.
b) 50-100.
c) 100-200.
d) 201+ 2) How many do you actually own?
a) Up to 50.
b) 50-100.
c) 100-200.
d) 201+ And yes, inevitably. though I think 50-100 a perfectly reasonable assortment of paints, somehow the actual bottle count is more like 300. Can't quite see how it happened. Other examples and/or explanations? |
 Extra Crispy  | 02 Apr 2026 2:01 p.m. PST |
200+ My cheap storage was built as follows. Obtain cheap 2x4 piece of plywood. Screw to ply wood cheap acrylic nail polish shelves: link Looks like this when complete:
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 etotheipi | 02 Apr 2026 2:12 p.m. PST |
1) If I go with how many different paint colours I have, it's easily 200+ 2) Dropper bottles … zero. I use a ~11"x13" art cart with three tiers. |
| Sho Boki | 02 Apr 2026 2:39 p.m. PST |
I need only part of these.. some are for WWII and therefore useless.
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| cavcrazy | 02 Apr 2026 2:41 p.m. PST |
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| ZULUPAUL | 02 Apr 2026 2:53 p.m. PST |
Well over 200. Mostly craft paints some very old (1980's) GW paints and some dropper bottles but I throw the dropper part away.
Paul |
| etotheipi | 02 Apr 2026 3:47 p.m. PST |
some are for WWII and therefore useless. How does this come about? What makes a paint for WWII? What makes it useless for anything else? |
| Sho Boki | 02 Apr 2026 4:30 p.m. PST |
Useless for me, because I don't paint after Waterloo period models.. |
| etotheipi | 02 Apr 2026 4:43 p.m. PST |
How is a color for a time restricted? |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 02 Apr 2026 4:57 p.m. PST |
1) How many bottles is a reasonably complete set? I guess it depends on your needs. I suppose that I could manage 25-32mm science fiction miniatures with white, black, brown, silver, blue, yellow, and red, and just derive whatever else I needed from them. 2) How many do you actually own? Fewer than 50, for sure. Maybe as few as 20. |
 gamertom | 02 Apr 2026 6:05 p.m. PST |
I think paint bottles are like coat hangers and rabbits. If you leave them alone for a bit, you wind up with lots of them. I even have tins of Humbrol enamel paints I bought in my college days. Whether or not they are still of any use is another matter since I haven't opened one in ages. |
| Erzherzog Johann | 02 Apr 2026 6:23 p.m. PST |
Sho Boki wrote: WWII colours are "Useless for me, because I don't paint after Waterloo period models." I still find those earthy greens, yellows, browns, blues etc useful for earlier periods, as first coats, as 'natural' fabric colours for ancient/mediaeval clothing etc. Cheers,
John |
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