Paints - To hide or not to hide? That is the question.

[spanner570]

Following on from Richy's comments about paint storage on 'Your Work Station', I would like my modelling buddies thoughts on this very subject.....

For my part, my paints, glues and all liquids are kept in drawers away from sunlight. Paints do deteriorate when exposed to the elements.

They look very neat and tidy all lined up on a shelf, but not good for the contents.

The above is just my thoughts and it would be interesting to view other comments.

Ron

[Guest]

To be honest Ron I have never given it much thought. I personally prefer to have everything very much to hand. That said I do have draws I use for various things the top draw on the chest is given over to tools and and some materials. The second houses enamel paints that I don't tend to use at the moment as I prefer acrylics. Then the third generally keeps sprues from kits I am working on relatively dust free. Anything I use a lot like the acrylics is kept on shelves along with glues etc etc.

[Guest]

Im aiming to use my organiser just for the paints Im using for ongoing projects. Once the project is finished they will go back into my storage box and wont come out until required for another project.

Ive seen the size of some peoples paint collection and looking at those and looking at the size of my organiser it doesnt take an idiot to figure out its not going to work out.

Im adapting my organiser so that it fits everything I want to hand, and Im making a couple of boxes for a few handy tools, but on the whole everything else is going to live in a box.

Im not really too bothered about glue going bad as its cheap enough anyway. Paints are anoying to have to buy but again cheap enough.

[stona]

I'm with you Ron.

I keep my paints etc in a cabinet beneath my work bench.



I simply write the paint colour or RLM number on the lid with a sharpie. For all the 'generic' colours I go by the colour on the lid.

As an expedient I keep the colours I'm using on a current build in the top draw.

I've experienced tinlets left in the sun blowing their lids off

Cheers

Steve

[Ian M]

I keep my paints etc in a cabinet beneath my work bench.

Nice and toasty in front of the radiator..... Hmm

Ian M

[stona]

Nice and toasty in front of the radiator..... HmmIan M

Not really, there's a couple of feet between the radiator and the back of the cabinet. It prevents any danger of frost I suppose, also not good for paints etc.

There's plenty of space in the draws too.



Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Just being pedantic - and genuinely meant in fun - but you can't store things in 'a method of creating an image' (Draw.)

You CAN however, keep stuff in a drawer.

Having said that, my paints are all in a couple of boxes in the garage, apart from frequently used tinlets that I keep in a tray near my work desk.

Roy.

[stona]

He's right you know ^^^

Cheers

Steve

[rickoshea52]

Just being pedantic - and genuinely meant in fun - but you can't store things in 'a method of creating an image' (Draw.)You CAN however, keep stuff in a drawer.

Having said that, my paints are all in a couple of boxes in the garage, apart from frequently used tinlets that I keep in a tray near my work desk.

Roy.

Maybe he means "draws" as in undercrackers! They must be roomy!

[Ian M]

Beat me to it Rick, lol.

I see I'm not the only one that writes the paint number on the lid of the tinlets...

Ian M

[monica]

I tend to always have some thing going on from a kit to figures or a Dio, so I tend to always have paints on the bench as hands reach,

i dont real even put them back in the rack, as then i have to stand up to get them down again,as i use acrylics,and the table is against the wall

i have never real worry about the sun light,,as i like the nature light to paint in ,

[Guest]

Mine are all in draws but purely to keep the bench as tidy as poss. and they are all immediately to hand so I do not have to keep getting up for them.

[Guest]

First I store mine on mini shelves in order to be able to view the colours and also pick out the numbers on the little bottles. Mine are mostly Vallejo, of age that is other manufactures I have are very recent, and those of 4 years old are as good as those bought last week. Vallejo say that they can be frozen and thawed with out detriment not that they are likely to get that in my case unless climate change accelerates dramatically. But before moving house to flat the paint certainly was exposed to low and high temperatures in a garage

Bottles from 10 to 20 years have been found, by Vallejo, to be perfectly usable. Cannot see that storage in a drawer will be any different from on a shelf as most paints bottles have a cover around the whole bottle. They say that the paints do not spoil except to extreme heat. Over a time it is probable that the water content will evaporate.

Laurie

[Guest]

Maybe he means "draws" as in undercrackers! They must be roomy!

....But even that should be drawers......

Roy.

[PaulTRose]

mine are all in storage boxes...one for each brand of paint, but thy are out in the open as it were...not in direct sunlight but not hidden away either

my paint tends to not last long enough for it to go off :P