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I don't know if it's just me, but I have a ring of dried up paint on inside lid of some of my Citadel paints. It seems that when I open a pot, some paint droops off the little scoop thing and spills out the back. Does anyone else have an issue with this? Over a session or two, the lids stop closing properly. How do you open your paints without it spilling out the back? I have to use a rubber band to keep some of the paints closed I'm not being sloppy either. I open them slowly, but there just seems to be nothing from stopping this from happening. Any tips would be much appreciated!

I don't have a lot of experience with the new pots as I haven't used them much, but some of the older GW paints had a similar problem of paint off the lid dripping on the rim. My solution was to place them on my table at an angle after opening them, so that the paint off the little tongue thing drips back in to the pot instead of dripping down the back and on to the rim.

Not sure if it works for the new pots, but it worked for the old ones. Just be careful to not accidentally knock them over as naturally when you angle them forward, they are more prone to being knocked over.

The cynics amongst us believe this was done intentionally. The more paint you waste, the more you buy. Dropper bottles such as those sold by Vallejo, Minitaire, Army Painter etc. waste far less or none.

Yeah. Opening them at an angle seems best. I'm surprised looking around online, nobody else seems to be complaining about this. I've slowly been making the transition to Vallejo and Reaper. I do like the Citadel colors, but I hate having to do maintenance on the friggin paint pots. As if there isn't enough stuff to be anal about in this hobby...

I used to have this problem until i started thinning my paints. I not transfer a brush or two's worth of paint to a paint palette and then thin them down. i rarely get any overspill now.

Its impossible not to get that, it's a pain, if it wasn't because I like the citadel colors I would switch ranges to dropper bottles, why can't games workshop do a well designed pot or change to droppers?? I don't understand, there was a similar problem with the previous range so I would dare to think it was made on purpose too.

Well the only way not to get that would be to open them very carefully at an angle and load your brush and transfer the paint into a pallet. you are not supposed to use paint out of the pot anyways and having it open would make the paint loose moister. So in the plus side you are forced to use your paint like you are supposed to but it's still a pain to keep it clean.

 The Apathetic Fish wrote:
Well the only way not to get that would be to open them very carefully at an angle and load your brush and transfer the paint into a pallet. you are not supposed to use paint out of the pot anyways and having it open would make the paint loose moister. So in the plus side you are forced to use your paint like you are supposed to but it's still a pain to keep it clean.

Have you tried angling them after you open them as well? As in, place something under the back of the pot to angle it forward on your table when it's open? It worked with the old pots, haven't really tested it with the new ones.

I personally remove paint from the pots to thin them, but I still like to have the pot open unless I'm only painting a small detail as I may want to go back to the pot to grab more paint and I find opening and closing GW pots repeatedly is as likely to cause a problem as just leaving them open while you paint.

Crusty ass GW paint

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Half of this as strainer (keeps the cured bits that fell in your pot out of your shiny dropper bottle

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a really small tipped funnel that I don't have a link for

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15cc Natural Boston Round Bottle with Dropper Cap

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Citadel paint pots have ALWAYS been wasteful, but some people (myself included until I learned better) like the pop-top pots. The old softer plastic hex bottles with the thin rubberized flip tops (90's era) protected the paint like no other, a LOT of the stuff I transferred to dropper bottles came out of those, but I would also have to dig paint out of the rim channel. Mostly I hated that paint would crust up around the rim and when it broke off and fell into the pot, then you've got cured paint in the pot helping gum up your whole pot. And yes, those are original production Glistening Green, Amethyst Purple and Polished Blue metallics at the bottom left, and no I didn't have to add any water to thin them back out. That's how good the old rubber flip tops were at maintaining a seal for YEARS.

When I open my pot I push the lid back so that little internal tip rubs the paint back into the pot. Also I have a sculpting tool that works perfect for scraping that paint that didn't get wiped back into the pot and using that paint first before getting more.

 Yonan wrote:
The cynics amongst us believe this was done intentionally. The more paint you waste, the more you buy. Dropper bottles such as those sold by Vallejo, Minitaire, Army Painter etc. waste far less or none.

+1

The wasting of the Citadel Paints and the constant, sporadic discontinuation of colors has made me make the switch to Reaper and Vallejo.

Like others, I try to open the pots at an angle and scoop paint off of the "tongue" to transfer it to a palette. Even so, they don't seal well enough to avoid getting a general ring of dried paint around their lip. Just shaking the pots to mix the paint while closed seems to be enough to cause wastage, so I try to scrape any salvageable paint off of the rim before I pull from the inside. There's only so much you can do with the design of the pots, unfortunately...

I personally don't find it o be a huge problem or terribly wasteful compared to dropper bottles. You get some dried paint with the pots, but you also get excess paint out of a dropper bottle that winds up being discarded. I find droppers to be slightly more useful for airbrushing, but that's about it. Maybe I'm just doing something right that others aren't? I do open them at an angle, but other than that there doesn't seem to be any secret

Also, make sure to get rid of any dry paint that sticks to the inside of the paint pot. If you don't, it might become a big enough of a problem that air will enter and you find yourself with dried, useless paints.

BrotherVord wrote:
I personally don't find it o be a huge problem or terribly wasteful compared to dropper bottles. You get some dried paint with the pots, but you also get excess paint out of a dropper bottle that winds up being discarded. I find droppers to be slightly more useful for airbrushing, but that's about it. Maybe I'm just doing something right that others aren't?

Given the much greater control you have getting paint from a bottle to the palette than from a tub to the palette, it's strange you find that you waste more with a bottle. Maybe you're just doing something wrong ; p

JWMarines wrote:
Crusty ass GW paint

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Half of this as strainer (keeps the cured bits that fell in your pot out of your shiny dropper bottle

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a really small tipped funnel that I don't have a link for

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15cc Natural Boston Round Bottle with Dropper Cap

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Spoiler:

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A funnel for you sir!
http://www.amazon.com/Funnels-Refillable-Refilling-Perfume-Atomizers/product-reviews/B003JNPFPA/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

And generally I don't have too much trouble either. I have more issue with the lids not wanting to stay open enough to use, so I prop them open with an alligator clip at the "hinge." It holds it upen at a perfect slightly-less-than-90-degrees so the paint drips back where it belongs.

I'm also moving over to different bottles. I've been using 2 oz bottles (from Hobby Lobby!) to pre-thin my colors for use in my airbrush. If I've got brushwork to do, I just shake the bottle, take off the lid, and take my paint from the lid. Done? Pop the lid back on and you're good to go, crust free. I've also been using airbrush, craft, and fine-art paints rather than hobby paints, so the volume difference means that dropper bottles won't work for me.

An example of the paint bottles I use:
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/empty-squeeze-bottles-with-caps-333815/

Nice funnels! I ended up using a silicone funnel that I found in the kitchen store.

That's a good price on 2oz bottles from Hobby Lobby.

USPlastics (where I get my 15ml bottles has dropper bottles at 60cc~2oz at about the same price as the Hobby Lobby ones. But if you can pick those up without shipping, that's the way to go.

JWMarines wrote:
Crusty ass GW paint

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Half of this as strainer (keeps the cured bits that fell in your pot out of your shiny dropper bottle

+

a really small tipped funnel that I don't have a link for

+

15cc Natural Boston Round Bottle with Dropper Cap

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Citadel paint pots have ALWAYS been wasteful, but some people (myself included until I learned better) like the pop-top pots. The old softer plastic hex bottles with the thin rubberized flip tops (90's era) protected the paint like no other, a LOT of the stuff I transferred to dropper bottles came out of those, but I would also have to dig paint out of the rim channel. Mostly I hated that paint would crust up around the rim and when it broke off and fell into the pot, then you've got cured paint in the pot helping gum up your whole pot. And yes, those are original production Glistening Green, Amethyst Purple and Polished Blue metallics at the bottom left, and no I didn't have to add any water to thin them back out. That's how good the old rubber flip tops were at maintaining a seal for YEARS.

Do you have a problem getting all the paint out of the GW pots. I don't mind doing this but i do now want to waste too much paint.

steve2112 wrote:

JWMarines wrote:
Crusty ass GW paint

+

Half of this as strainer (keeps the cured bits that fell in your pot out of your shiny dropper bottle

+

a really small tipped funnel that I don't have a link for

+

15cc Natural Boston Round Bottle with Dropper Cap

=





Citadel paint pots have ALWAYS been wasteful, but some people (myself included until I learned better) like the pop-top pots. The old softer plastic hex bottles with the thin rubberized flip tops (90's era) protected the paint like no other, a LOT of the stuff I transferred to dropper bottles came out of those, but I would also have to dig paint out of the rim channel. Mostly I hated that paint would crust up around the rim and when it broke off and fell into the pot, then you've got cured paint in the pot helping gum up your whole pot. And yes, those are original production Glistening Green, Amethyst Purple and Polished Blue metallics at the bottom left, and no I didn't have to add any water to thin them back out. That's how good the old rubber flip tops were at maintaining a seal for YEARS.

Do you have a problem getting all the paint out of the GW pots. I don't mind doing this but i do now want to waste too much paint.

There's some waste, of course. Based on my experience with newer era Citadel pots, you'll waste more by the paint curing in the pot over the life of the pot than you do during transfer.