Storing my Paints PROPERLY!

[BLZeebub]

So after too many years of painting with my bottles just in boxes or standing around on my shelf of shame or in various drawers, I have finally at much cost of labor made paint organizers!  BEHOLD!  I made these to hold up to 204 Reaper dropper sized bottles (Army Painter and Vallejo fit too).  They aren't the only ones I use by any means, but they're the bulk of my paint collection.

 

Wasn't the hardest thing in the world, but honestly I might try another method if I do this again.  Right now the units are loose, probably going to lean them on the wall--eventually I would put supports on the backs so they can stand up at an angle (think picture frames).  The insane super duper bonus feature is that I can put the two together and transport, or more importantly, SHAKE all my paints at once!  The main purpose was organization though and being able to see each of my paints and, when I've organized and sorted them, see the spectrum at a glance rather than digging through a drawer as I have been doing.  For the chromophiles out there I'll post pics when they're sorted and in their proper places.

 

To make them, I sized the bottles and figured out the hole size and spacing (bottles are about 1" diameter, I used a 1 1/8" hole saw (paddle bit blew out the back side) and drilled 102 holes (sandwiched the 3/4" boards together).  It took hours as my drills' batteries kept dying and the saw lost its good edge by the 60th holes or so.  I used the "holes" I drilled out as supports (had to chisel the middle supports in half) between the silver parts and the 5mm (yes, civilized world, in the US we know how to use proper/metric, and certain sizes of wood are specified in metric!) plywood base (black, not really visible).  I carefully glued and screwed these together.  Decided to use up some spray paint I had lying around.  Enjoy and be inspired!

[Glitterwolf]

While that looks great, you're clearly doing it wrong.

To store your paints the perfect way, send them to me...

 

Kidding!

Looks awesome!

[Gadgetman!]

Looks good, but...  

 

Where are you going to store the rest of your paints?  

 

Reaper's MSP Core set alone is more than 204 paints...

[BLZeebub]

6 hours ago, Gadgetman! said:

Looks good, but...  

 

Where are you going to store the rest of your paints?  

 

Reaper's MSP Core set alone is more than 204 paints...

Well, somehow I've only got around 180 at the moment (some doubles), and hope to keep some oddballs with the other styles of bottles (anti-shine, things I don't need to see for them to be useful).  Plus, I can always make more... ugh!

[BLZeebub]

Here we go, in order by tone and color/hue.  Satisfaction.

The left one contains neutrals, fleshes, metallics, and things like flow improver.  The right is the rainbow (plus pinks and other mysteries).

Edited July 26, 2020 by BLZeebub