My painting desk collects lots of tiny bits of dried paint – I’m hoping that this problem is greatly reduced after spending some time with using almost exclusively Vallejo paints. A minor gripe, but a gripe none-the-less.
If you are not careful you’ll find that paint bits get on your brush and on your models. When you look at older paint pots with lots of dried paint you realise just how much of your 12ml is wasted! Compounding this, if a pot accidently gets dried out because it didn’t close properly, then all the paint can be totally ruined. (Thinking about it, this was another catalyst that drove me to make the change). I’ve nearly stabbed myself many times with a screwdriver or file or whatever pointy thing I have to hand that I’m trying to use to gouge out the dried paint from the lid. Dried paint may chip off into your paint, and collect in your paint lids.Ĭleaning paint out of the rim of the lids is dangerous. Although I find this strangely satisfying – it makes a mess. You’ll find yourself pulling off strips of dried paint from around the rims. Note that this is a particular problem with buying second hand Games Workshop paint – older paints are often not in good condition, with some paints being especially bad for it (Corax White – I’m looking at you.) Dried paint – a right bugger to clean This accelerates your paints drying out.īy comparison, basically all the Vallejo paints I’ve had second hand have been in good condition. The biggest problem with the dried paint is that pots become more difficult to close, eventually not closing properly. It slows you down and wears on my patience (which is a precious and finite resource!) Dried paint – pots degrade over time
In short – I don’t want to have to be careful when getting at the paint. If you are no especially careful at taking out paint, this dried paint will accumulate more quickly, No matter how careful you use you paints – this will happen. Paint gets dried around the rim of the pots as you take paint out of them, and it slowly builds up around the to edge, around the pot insides, and it dries in the rim of the pot lids.
My beef with the Citadel pots is as follows: They are expensive (for just 12ml)įor the layer and base paints, Games Workshop pots contain 12ml of paint this compares poorly versus the 17ml bottles that The Army Painter Vallejo and many other brands have. Since I’ve been using the odd dropper bottle I’ve realised just how much better the dropper bottles are. The catalyst for making the change was simply that I hate the Games Workshop paint pots.
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