Clearman Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Awesome! Keep us posted on how it goes. Would love to see what you come up with. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat13 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 (edited) On 2/26/2018 at 2:08 PM, WhiteWulfe said: right now they're grouped by which LTPK they came in That's how my paints are organized right now, it'll probably be awhile before I need another system. I like to leave the back row reserved for the colors I'm currently using during a project. Edited February 28, 2018 by Rat13 Dang autocorrect. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joepacelli Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 5 hours ago, Clearman said: Awesome! Keep us posted on how it goes. Would love to see what you come up with. Will do. I just got back from another Home Depot and was able to get another 22 packs, of the PVC, so now I have a total of 30 packs, with 15 pieces each. So I've got enough for the 326 paints and room for more. I'll probably build small sections, but the hardest part is do I build it now, or wait till I move into the new home we are building in June. After I make a dedicated painting desk and know what I have to work with space wise. Plus, I won't need to worry about breaking it if I wait till June 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObviousBadGuy Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 I only own reaper paints at the moment. They have numbers on them and I sort them in order from least to greatest. Probably doesn't help at all, but that's how I organize my paints. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteWulfe Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 8 hours ago, Rat13 said: That's how my paints are organized right now, it'll probably be awhile before I need anot her system. I like to leave the back row reserved for the colors I'm currently using during a project. I contemplated such... And then I went "hey hun, let's order a ton of paints" (aka you pick 10 Bones and 10 HD, and I'll pick ten of each... And while we're at it, we'll fill out a few triads we already have). Suspicious how going from 22 paints to 72 or so suddenly makes it so one can't quite just use the cases they already have for such.... Still tempted to use them as a travel case though, since BattleFoam is going to be a while before I contemplate such simply due to the rather steep shipping costs to Canada. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanH Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 On 2/26/2018 at 10:34 AM, Clearman said: This is how I have my paint organized. This is a "Thing of Sheer Beauty", well done! I have recently outgrown my two LTPK cases so I am going to shamelessly steal this idea! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slash486 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 I have a vallejo rack with Browns, skin colors, washes and inks. I also built a rack for the rest. They are sorted by color then by number within each color. If that makes sense. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joepacelli Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 11 hours ago, DanH said: This is a "Thing of Sheer Beauty", well done! I have recently outgrown my two LTPK cases so I am going to shamelessly steal this idea! Yeah, I'm also stealing this idea Dan. I got lucky, when I went to Home Depot they had 15 pack of 3/4inch PVC couplings on clearance for .63 cents. So for $20 I got 30 bags, enough for 450 paints. If your in the US, check your local Home Depot in the plumbing for the 15 pack, which is normal 2.68 on clearance for .63 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungerfan Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Resurrecting this thread instead of starting something new since it is all related. We got a duplicate shelf that matches my daughter's with all her crafting stuff. I bought an acrylic spice rack thinking it would hold plenty of paints....well once you start taking paints out of the cases and lining them up you realize 20 is a lot. We don't need all paints out because some just rarely get used but I would like to have the majority on display and easy to grab when we paint. Any other ideas besides the spice rack (which i needed to stagger the paints so more could fit on it) that we could possibly do in the area seen in pic...or we could even use the bigger shelf below where the case that still has another 80-90 paints is sitting right now. If I go with the spice rack my thought was to purchase another and Dremel it to fit on shelf next to the other one and that would store a good 120 paints or so. Then the other 80-90 could stay in the caddy down below. Not the best solution but we could make it work. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slash486 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 I use these. One straight module and two corner modules. They work great and the modules attack to each other. They are made by Vallejo and I got mine on Amazon. $20 for the straight and $27 for the corner. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gadgetman! Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 They look good, but to me it looks as if they're wasting a bit of space at the top by having holes for larger bottles there. (Unless you use a lot of 30 or 60ml bottles from Vallejo, of course. I only have primers and varnishes in that size bottles, soset up a short HZ 36mm rack for those, off to the side) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ced1106 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 (edited) I'm using a garage drawer storage thing, originally for nuts, bolts, and small parts. I think it was on sale at Home Depot, i got it for Dad, and he never used it. I find the drawers useful for storing paint triads, and sort by manufacturer then number. The bottom drawers are paints from paint sets (eg. Army Painter Quickshade Ink, Secret Weapon Miniatures washes). I sometimes find it useful to pull out a drawer and leave it on my paint desk. You can, of course, put other paint-related things in the drawers, like alligator clips. plastic putty in a tube, etc. For brushes and tools (eg. scissors, files), I use an acrylic nail polish holder. I originally bought it to hold paints, but found the cells too small. But they're perfect to keep brushes. Just throw 'em in brush-side up after drying. Also stores stuff like tweezers, scissors, batteries, Q-tips, toothbrushes... etc. Everything's a mess, but I can find what I want so I can paint! Edited April 3, 2018 by ced1106 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gadgetman! Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 If you can find what you need easily, it can't really be that much of a mess. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungerfan Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Got 2 rechargeable light strips installed today at lunch. They have sensors but too much light in room for them to work so I will just switch them on when I want to paint. I tried just one in the center but it was putting shadows on the bottles that line the walls so I installed both side by side and once I get the other rack and a dremel to chop it down so it fits i think it will all look great. My wife is insisting that I do a rainbow color scheme and that I don't stagger the paints like I have so far. I will get more on the shelf and she thinks it would look cooler. It will be a pain to add new paints no matter which way I do it so I will give her idea a shot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungerfan Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 Well we got paints organized tonight and most of the other stuff in place. I discovered that I have a metric ton of mini stuff while doing this. I will need to decide what else to keep on these shelves and what can stay in other mini storage places. In this pic it will be some displayed minis on top, paints, basing stuff, minis, and then more minis/ extra cases and storage things on three very bottom. The sorting of paint colors was tough and had both my wife and daughter helping. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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