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From: The Painting Corps

Portable Paint Set


Ever since I started working for the Fire Department, I've really been in need of a nice compact, durable and versatile way to get my projects to work and back in one piece. From that necessity came my current portable paint set up.

Much of what I have been using has been from things I found around my house and at work. The base of which is a flip top flat box from GW's shipping department. I have used this box as a mixing palette for my terrain projects, a priming surface for just about every model I paint, and as a container to keep some of my most needed paints on hand and organized.



As you can see, I pack the box to it's limit. I routinely pack around 29 GW paints and 6 Vallejo model color paints in this one. I also carry my brushes and pencils in the box as well, if you still have the little plastic covers, they'll stay in great shape so long as you don't have them pressed up against anything. The larger box you get, the more paints you can lug around, but I've found this one to be perfectly sized for my needs.



Another major addition to my paint set that I've recently stumbled across is a document protector that I found around work when I forgot to bring a palette with me. It ended up being the perfect companion piece to an already nicely compact set up. With this you can also fold it over on itself and with a little bit of water around the paint, it will seal off the paint and keep it from drying out should you need to step away for a moment. I just fold this up and throw it in with the paints and close up the box.

The last piece of the puzzle is a durable plastic cup. The cup isn't just for your water when painting either. Should your project be small enough, you can wrap it up in the paper towel and stuff it all into the cup for a bit of protection and a much easier transport! This might not work for army projects, but it gets the trick done for one off models!



And there you have it! A nice compact, durable, and portable paint set that costs next to nothing (past the paints that is!).

How do you get around with painting projects?

Gratz! you made an artists Pocade box! And saved about $100 to boot That's a nice set-up btw and if I did more traveling or what not I'd have done the same thing.

I use these plastic container things... like slim tackle boxes without any sorts of handles. Not great for carrying, but awesome for storage and protection. They're tough - reinforced by the number of compartments and very strong lid design. I've got a few of these, but here's the most packed one at present. I have another with 'slots'
cut through a couple compartments, which brushes fit snugly into without floating around.
Agreeing with grey_death - paper/plastic bag wrapped around a model and placed into a cup or plastic box compartment is the perfect way to look after a couple of small models on the move. I'm more inclined toward this method because my partner throws things out if they looks like, say, a crumpled piece of paper in an otherwise empty cup.




What do we have here? Paint, some FOW bases, a mutilated metal rat ogre, a pile of random models that are 'counts as' slaves, a bunch or brettonian men-at-arms with lasguns and kolony heads, a bag of another 30 kolony heads, a lot of common gobbo heads, two compartments full of space marine bits, one full of goblin/skaven weapon arms, and a few other random models and bitz...

Now I need to find a compartmentalised way to store basing material/debris. Seperate little covers so the stuff doesn't jump into the other compartments and so on. Any ideas?

BTW, these containers are perfect because my Dire Avenger exarch on a double-thickness resin base can JUST stand up in it, with less than a millimetre of clearance.

Rymafyr wrote:Gratz! you made an artists Pocade box! And saved about $100 to boot That's a nice set-up btw and if I did more traveling or what not I'd have done the same thing.

sp: pochade, but yeah love it, can't wait to start painting again!
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Arctik_Firangi wrote:

omg, i want a synthesiser, but theyre expensive
sorry, off topic there. yeah, i do the same as grey_death for my carriage of hobby stuffs. it works well.

*edited to save space, yet still make my point*

Also sorry off topic, but there's a bigger Korg underneath that microkorg box, and a bigger one still downstairs.

NICE