I needed some paint, as we do from time to time, so I hopped on line and went to one of my chosen few.
AK interactive Real Colors lacquers. (Here efter just RC. Found the colours I needed order placed. Two days after postie delivered the package!
ONE of the colours was in the expected mini jar. Clear glass, impossible to knock over, easy to see how much is in and how well mixed if needed...
The others... "New Improved" packaging... A plastic squirty bottle is the normal milky white plastic that prevents a clear view of the contents and all that. I was glad that they had put them in plastic bags in the box. As most of them had leaked. Not a massive amount, but enough to make the bottles sticky.
On opening the first "leaky bottle" Paint flooded out of the lid and all over my hand. "Insert your choice of swearword here" Wiped it off and found the squirty nozzle bit split. Fantastic!
Bottle nr2 was the same but the amount of paint that cascaded out of the lid was a lot more. The Nozzle on this one had actually broken in half lengthwise! So a good 1/3 of the paint was in the lid.
The next two bottles were OK. The last one also had a split nozzle and some paint in the lid.
My conclusion?
A stupid bottle so tall they can not fit in the drawer I have my Vallejo paints in. They also fall over if you look at them sternly.
The lid despite its ridiculous size can not seal the nozzle without crushing it. Being a large straight lid it can hold a lot of paint.
The nozzles are a different size to any of the other branded ones I have washed and saved as spares. ( I know the plastic ones can split over time but on brand new produce.... really)
The Paint: The paint is as expected Excellent, A spritz of thinner and of you go. Good colour, cover and that smell we all love of lacquer paint.
It that reason enough to carry on buying them. NO IT IS NOT. Put them back in the glass jars THEN YES.
The destroyed nozzle on the grey and one of the split ones. Not the cavernous lid of the "new smart bottles"
The Two in the Glass jars one new the other from last year,
I contacted the shop to ask if they have had other customers mention the issue. She had and will be taking it further.
AK interactive Real Colors lacquers. (Here efter just RC. Found the colours I needed order placed. Two days after postie delivered the package!
ONE of the colours was in the expected mini jar. Clear glass, impossible to knock over, easy to see how much is in and how well mixed if needed...
The others... "New Improved" packaging... A plastic squirty bottle is the normal milky white plastic that prevents a clear view of the contents and all that. I was glad that they had put them in plastic bags in the box. As most of them had leaked. Not a massive amount, but enough to make the bottles sticky.
On opening the first "leaky bottle" Paint flooded out of the lid and all over my hand. "Insert your choice of swearword here" Wiped it off and found the squirty nozzle bit split. Fantastic!
Bottle nr2 was the same but the amount of paint that cascaded out of the lid was a lot more. The Nozzle on this one had actually broken in half lengthwise! So a good 1/3 of the paint was in the lid.
The next two bottles were OK. The last one also had a split nozzle and some paint in the lid.
My conclusion?
A stupid bottle so tall they can not fit in the drawer I have my Vallejo paints in. They also fall over if you look at them sternly.
The lid despite its ridiculous size can not seal the nozzle without crushing it. Being a large straight lid it can hold a lot of paint.
The nozzles are a different size to any of the other branded ones I have washed and saved as spares. ( I know the plastic ones can split over time but on brand new produce.... really)
The Paint: The paint is as expected Excellent, A spritz of thinner and of you go. Good colour, cover and that smell we all love of lacquer paint.
It that reason enough to carry on buying them. NO IT IS NOT. Put them back in the glass jars THEN YES.
The destroyed nozzle on the grey and one of the split ones. Not the cavernous lid of the "new smart bottles"
The Two in the Glass jars one new the other from last year,
I contacted the shop to ask if they have had other customers mention the issue. She had and will be taking it further.
