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This will be unpopular, but I have absolutely zero problems with current pots. On the contrary, droppers from either SC75, Vallejo, Army Painter cause me more headache (they clog, they don't mix properly, they still leak if pressed too hard), so I would not like to see them change the type.

In my opinion, it would be better when they switch their paints to better pots.

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RazorEdge wrote:
The blue looks different from the colours they used for UMs the last Years.

30k Ultramarines have always been painted a bit darker, even by Eavy Metal... closer to the actual colour ultramarine, even.

You're right, the blue looks similary to the paint shop of the Mark III Marines.

BTW a friend of mine found a curious way to prevent his Citadel paints in pots from drying out. Note thas this only works on complete new pots.

He removes the backside of the pot's caps completly with a sprue cutter. He has now to place the cap seperate because it is no longer connected to the pot but he has no longer the issue of paint running behind the cap.

He is doing this since nearly 1,5 years and no longer has any dried-out citadel paints.

RazorEdge wrote:
BTW a friend of mine found a curious way to prevent his Citadel paints in pots from drying out. Note thas this only works on complete new pots.

He removes the backside of the pot's caps completly with a sprue cutter. He has now to place the cap seperate because it is no longer connected to the pot but he has no longer the issue of paint running behind the cap.

He is doing this since nearly 1,5 years and no longer has any dried-out citadel paints.

I had considered trying that, but figured it'd be annoying because the lids don't have a flat top any more like they had many years ago.

The really old pots (the same type used by P3 and Cote d Arms) would occasionally break off and, yeah, you'd just place the cap next to the pot while you were using it.

I have so much crap on my painting desk, that I can prop up the open paint pot at an angle, and the paint drips into the pot, not behind the cap! I'll get the paint sometimes from the "tongue" of the cap, rather than the pot.