Paint Rack II

I may not have been painting as much this last few weeks but it has not stopped me wanting to remedy my space issue for my paints. I looked at various types of rack to house the overspill of paints from my original rack. I was looking for one that worked best with Vallejo droppers as my other rack can hold different shaped pots and was restricting the size so as not to cause a major shift on my table.

I settled for this rack from Ebay for £10.95 which holds 40 bottles, far more than I need at the moment but lets face it our paints only increase in numbers. I would have given a link to the supplier but as their policy is zero feedback till they receive it I won't bother. A pet dislike of mine is traders who hold you to ransom until you have given them feedback. Why? If something went wrong with the supply would that make my prompt payment any less prompt? 

The new one is on the left and has some neat holders for nearly empty bottles, though they still go in the holders reasonably well upside down anyway but could act as natty reminders of which paints you need to restock.

I have to say putting it together was something of a chore, it is not a tight fit at any point and trying to build it up was a bit of a challenge and unlike the one on the right had to be glued together to stay together. Still it was all done in about 45 minutes and nice and sturdy the following day. For the price it was perfect. If I need to get another I will probably replace both racks with a much bigger set up but before then I may have to increase my paint options by about 30 more paints so not yet awhile I say.

The off cuts from the sprue's look like little people and the kids will have some fun painting these up, especially the other sprue that comes with extra heads and legs. See nothing is wasted and the kids have some creative fun, well worth the cost.

Paint Rack Love and Reality.

I have been hanging my nose over a rather attractive Paint Rack on E-Bay this last few days. I really like it and the price is a very reasonable £35 plus postage. This would normally at the moment leave me thinking too much money but having just sold some of my extra bits and some of my sniper figures I felt I could indulge a little.

 

As you can see it's a bit of a babe holding about 86 Vallejo bottles. This is just what I need to hold the majority of my paint. I say majority not because I have more than 86 bottles of Vallejo dropper bottles but because the majority of my paints ARE Vallejo, the rest are a mix of Coat d'arms, Miniature Paints, Games Workshop foundation and washes as well as a few Winsor & Newton inks (which do not fit any paint rack anyway. So I had the choice date this sexy beast and have a small irritating stash of paints or think again. Well Mr. Lee supplied a link to another supplier he personally recommended. I checked them out and they had the dropper only option but also a version with shelves deep enough for all but the W&N inks. Price including postage was about the same as the one above which means if you just have the dropper style then it remains the better deal on paper. I will be buying that type of rack if I need a second one (I can make room). That's not going to happen anytime soon as I still have plenty of room having only been buying paints for the last year and a bit.

 

This is how the German one comes (though it's in a box before you say anything!). With a fairly basic one sided set of instructions as it's very easy to put together. It just holds with good old friction, well mine did until I started to put the other side on and slipped and then it seemed not to be happy about keeping that side on so I reinforced with glue. I would recommend doing this anyway as I doubt it will be happy with being broken down and rebuilt. It took all told (ignoring the glue drying bit) about ten minutes to put together. Here is a link to the website.

 

This is what my desk looked like just before I started to make up the stand, in fairness not unlike it is most of the time and I still can paint well enough as it is.

 

This is how it looked for about ten minutes! Though I have to admit all the paints are still in position and I already have found myself reaching for a colour that probably would have been passed over. I have filled some of the space with a few models waiting their turn to be painted and my 6mm paper flags and a few other bits directly in front of them. Other things like my steam engine need a new home (not that you could see it anyway) but you can see my vase a lot better now which for me is good LOL. So yes I would recommend the supplier. It's great for other types of pot (the top row is best served by being against a wall as mine is) the delivery speed is nice and fast and I would be happy to get another if that cute thing was not available. The one negative about this type of stand though as Mr. Lee pointed out is the footprint it takes up on the desk, it's deeper than the bottle type simply because the ledge has to be wider. I've been using mine for the last couple of days and it's doing me fine.

Don't forget my Blog Give Away which is listed as the post below this one for the time being at least LOL.