"Paint Your Paint Pots" Topic

I use Vallejo paints. When I squeeze out a dab for use, I'll tahe a new lid and dip it into the puddle.

Good idea. Thanks.

thanks for sharing I have done this as well and thought maybe i was uniquely obsessed = good to know i am not alone!

I've been doing this for years, many ,many years.

I usually give the whole lid one coat and half of the lid a second coat. That way you can see the opaqueness of the paint before it goes on a figure.

I paint my pots with 4 vertical stripes: bare lid, primer white, gray, black. Then I paint the lid horizontally with the internal color. Later I come back and swipe the top half with a second coat.

I started doing this a few decades ago when it became too much of a pain to find the color I was looking for among 200+ bottles.

I do the same with many of my craft paints. It does make it easier to find the correct bottle.

Jim

In addition to that, I bought a box a steel BBs. I drop one BB into each bottle to aid in shaking up the paint.

I'm a little picky on where I get my stainless steel. Over the years I had a few, sub standard "stainless" rust on me. Those bottles became base coats for terrain.

I pretty much use every brand of paint out there. I might prefer some colors by brand A but others by brand B. I have painted the lids of my paint for twenty plus years. Got the idea looking into a box of crayons.

I have some old 50-50 solder, no longer to spec for soldering. I cut a 1/4 or 1/3 inch of that and drop it in the paint. I figure, if the paint gets damaged by contact with lead, it's not the paint for me!