Goodbye Citadel Paint Pots! Hello Custom!

[Wolf Lord Diatribe]

So I finally got fed up with how Citadel Paint Pots are in terms of what I'm needing in things. No, I'm not ready to go to P3 or Vallejo (yet), but the whole paint pot part just got started on the road of my ole "Heave Ho!". So, what I did today, is I went to my local crafts & hobby store (not gaming hobby, but general arts & crafts store) & bought up 2 baggies of 6 dropper bottles similar to P3 & Vallejo's bottles (tips are different, but essentially the same). While I have a mix of pre-change Citadel paints & post-change Citadel paint pots, I had to spend the time research what used to be what; what's 100% new; what's gone; what (seems to be) a mix of multiple colors; what is just bat:cuss crazy of Citadel to say X Paint = Y Paint. So, after I did that, I picked out my bottles, sticker labels (one for name of paint & possible description of mix ratio & 2nd for a quick paint swath to show what it looks like dry & not me guessing from the outside inside). What I came up with (in the short time I did it) was this:

 

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff105/diatribeeq/2012-09-21163904_zps22062d5c.jpg

 

I plan on doing this for everything I've got, unless I decide to completely orphan an old paint pot & just finish it out (for whatever reason). I can fit 3 new paint pots into 1 single of these, so it's great for paints I use a bunch of (Skaven, Ork & Goblin, Space Wolves say HI THERE!).

 

Anyone else do something similar to this?

[Bungicats]

That is a really neat idea. I too have sooo many different paints from the GW/Citadel line. Combining them would take what little time I spend painting. I tend to "just check the new posts" and end up marveling about all the WIP etc 4 hours later, I'm like :huh: how did it get so late I was just checking a *few* posts :P :cuss :cuss So off to the painting room before its too late..

 

PS I still really like the idea and will be *borrowing* it in time!

[Wolf Lord Diatribe]

Okay. So with my original "test run" was with a dozen dropper bottles. As I mentioned before, I wanted to make sure the functionality was of the same caliber/quality as P3/Vallejo styled bottles. As you can see in the below pics, they aren't the same physically, but in the end, they'll do the same (if not hold far more paint than the others). Also, as I could, I combined the multiple old pots that were renamed into the new line (wherein they actually were the same color or close enough) and I also made up bottles just from the new pots themselves. In the end, this is what I came up with:

 

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff105/diatribeeq/2012-09-21163904_zps22062d5c.jpg

 

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff105/diatribeeq/2012-09-22233725_zps90c163b2.jpg

 

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff105/diatribeeq/2012-09-22233821_zpsed122320.jpg

 

And the tip involved isn't the snub nose you've seen in the other 2 major ones, but a longer, distended one:

 

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff105/diatribeeq/2012-09-22234020_zps903c99c5.jpg

[Bungicats]

Muuussssssttttt fiiinnndddd booottttttllleeeessss. I'll have to stop by the local Michaels store on Tuesday and pester the employees as to where they hide these! :P

[Jakbal]

I searched for these at 2 different michaels locations awhile back and couldn't find them. I had to order them from amazon. Maybe the michaels near me are lame, though.