| thosmoss | 23 Apr 2020 6:52 a.m. PST |
I use Vallejo paints. When I squeeze out a dab for use, I'll tahe a new lid and dip it into the puddle. |
| coopman | 24 Apr 2020 1:08 p.m. PST |
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| PeterH | 24 Apr 2020 7:44 p.m. PST |
thanks for sharing I have done this as well and thought maybe i was uniquely obsessed = good to know i am not alone! |
| JimDuncanUK | 26 Apr 2020 5:45 a.m. PST |
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. |
| CeruLucifus | 27 Apr 2020 9:32 a.m. PST |
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. |
 Doctor X  | 28 Apr 2020 10:06 a.m. PST |
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. |
 ColCampbell | 09 Jun 2020 7:43 a.m. PST |
I do the same with many of my craft paints. It does make it easier to find the correct bottle. Jim |
| athun25 | 27 Jun 2020 6:31 a.m. PST |
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. |
| Your Kidding | 02 Jul 2020 8:21 a.m. PST |
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. |
| Saxondog | 10 Dec 2020 8:22 a.m. PST |
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. |
| Robert Bruce | 22 Jan 2021 10:52 a.m. PST |
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! |
worries about not losing his rules stuff.