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IRPurple wrote:

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:I think I win at the moment!
In one month I get a games/paint room so maybe it does pay to be a slob!

you think yours is a mess and your a slob..... wait till i cab be bothered to find my camera then ill show you mess.....
lol, my desk changes day by day.... mess moved or gets moved off(falls off) and new mess appears...


im tmpted to take a phone pik.... just for an example...
oh well, doin that now.... loading it.... might take a while.....

okay, itll be attached at the bottom....

The only thing sadder than that, is when a person with a paintstation like that, takes a picture with a "camera" like that, of his latest model (picture including ugly mat, dusty mousepad and sticky keyboard), and expect any of us to even look at his ugly-ass model (coz it will be ugly-ass in those surroundings). Sad, I tell you. Sad.

hey Mr Negative! no need to be nasty. If you can't say something nice don't say anything at all.

my desk in my room is my painting area, paints just go in the draws next to me, out of site .

problem is, while the paints are tidied away, being a teenager, the rest of my room is a bit of a mess, mostly 40k army cases, buildings, rule books, codexes, car magazines and PSP game cases!

By colors.

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:By colors.

Best post of the thread.

me well i panit the way i should .......................choas...
or such but i try for instact all the panits i only use every time an ork brushes his teeth(never) such as blazin orange , yellow ink , my spare pot of mageta ink, terracotta and that gunmetal that is actullay black.(hmmmmm) are all in a box the rest are on a table a scrouged from my dad after we sold the farm computer
crazed thunder lord

Shortbus wrote:

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:By colors.

Best post of the thread.

Why thank you. That's me being serious. And bottle size for my glues.

My paints pretty much all go in a massive ziplock bag that travels with me around the house...pretty much wherever, I feel like painting, whether it be in the living room on a TV tray, the day room on the couch, or in the kitchen on the very nice dining room table...MAN I LOVE BEING SINGLE!

wyomingfox wrote:My paints pretty much all go in a massive ziplock bag that travels with me around the house...pretty much wherever, I feel like painting, whether it be in the living room on a TV tray, the day room on the couch, or in the kitchen on the very nice dining room table...MAN I LOVE BEING SINGLE!

I remember when I had such freedoms.

EDIT: you know what, thnx 4 the comments on me messy desk, made me think, WHY amnt i embarresed to put that on the internet......

CLEANING IN PROGRESS NOW!!

picture will be detached and my previous post will be well shortened...

Unfortunately I don't have an organization system. I keep my vallejo paints stored in a small plastic box so that I can't see the coloured parts of the paint containers. I just pull them up to see the colour 1 by 1 until I find what I need.

It's an idiotic system, but I still own less than 20 colours so I manage.

Does in a random jumble sprawling out to the right of my computer/painting desk count as organized? My better half keeps threatening to straighten and organize them, but I think the task is daunting enough to keep her at bay.

Mine fit into a large shoebox. Whatever models I'm currently working on go in a small foam padded plastic case that fits right on top of the paints. Very portable, which is good since I paint at home and work.

Gavin Thorne wrote:Mine fit into a large shoebox. Whatever models I'm currently working on go in a small foam padded plastic case that fits right on top of the paints. Very portable, which is good since I paint at home and work.

You paint...at work? . So jealous!

I have a giant plastic toolbox. That and the desktop. That's where I put the colors I'm currently using which usually don't go back in the box

In a box under my desk. I keep meaning to mark the lids of my paints but have never gotten around to it. To make matter worse, my roommate who can't use a palette for some reason (he's an illustrator for god's sake I just don't get it!) uses the lids of the paints to mix colours. So I have to remember that shadow grey has boltgun metal on the lid, dark angel's green has bleached bone on the lid, scorched brown has blood red and scab red on the lid, etc. It's not the best system. Actually it's about the worst system possible.

wyomingfox wrote:You paint...at work? So jealous!

I know, right? My call center has a relatively liberal view of what agents amuse themselves with between calls when business is slow. I keep everything portable and contained so there's little chance of accidents. There have been times I've been asked not to do it and I keep it out of sight during client visits and the like.

My co-workers and managers love to see what I'm working on at the moment and while I'm the definitive geek on the floor, I'm also a supervisor so they don't call me names to my face!

Of course, painting miniatures isn't that big a deal since I also make chainmail and jewelry, sell homemade jam and jellies, tutor agents taking college courses, provide cooking advice and recipes, and am the go-to guy for any questions concerning our line of business (and everything else). Keeps me busy...

Back on topic, I don't think the OP's paint set is messy at all; a lot of the guys at my FLGS just toss everything into tool boxes and use anything in reach as a palette so the fact that everything is fairly orderly and self contained is respectable in my book!

Alphabetically.

By their Chinese names.

jeez I'm so embarrassed with my messy workspace seeing how some of you are so organized, lol

Organise ??? what is this word Orrrganise !?
haha, nah i normally have them all in front of me in no sepcific order justhere adn there and i search for the ones i want

i like to guess where mine are..... makes selecting paints a whole new game...............maybe i should make some rules assign dice numbers to paints lol, fun but pointless lol

mine are all crammed onto a tray with other random bits and bobs

my work area ,the pull out shelf,or converted tray underneath is where all my paints are "chucked"

I've got a 4 level Paintier carousel. In a perfect world, I would have all of my craft paint on the inside of the bottom tier with smaller pots on the outside. I've got tubes of green stuff and other two part epoxies stuffed into the middle tiers and most of my brushes in their holes on top. The larger holes are home to pieces of tubing to keep them safe and out of the way. All of my smaller paints were sorted by color family.

I've got a 22" plastic tool box for my modeling tools and stuff.

Now, most of my paints and tools are in a cardboard box under my gaming table, but the WIP projects are sorted out in plastic boxes and ziploc bags so their parts won't come amiss.

I sat down and set up a triage list so I could get them done quicker, seeing who's almost finished and stuff. A few of them are almost table ready, they just need a drybrush with silver on their gun barrels or something trivial like that.

Gw paints are the easy'st

greetz typhoon

I paint the lids and stick them in my old Dark Millennium box, which still holds together after all these years.

Phazer

This I'm ashamed to say, is the "organised" table I work from...

I keep mine in a plastic tool box. All the tall craft type paints and eye dropper types in the bottom. All my GW and oooooooold ral partha paints are in the removable caddy with the brushes in the slim socket area along the back. There are a couple of snap type bins on the lid for my knives and tools. I've marked all the colors on the lids so everything is easily identified. When not in use it's stored in my closet on the floor next to my military boots. Keeps everything tidy and the wife happy. Kind of a pain to set up when I want to paint and put away when I'm finished. I'm finishing up my basement at the moment and I've already drawn up the plans for a hobby/game room.

i just have all my foundations on a shelf above my computer and all the washes/inks and paints arranged in highlight order on another shelf.

I've got all my paints and brushes located in an old GW cardboard box. Each paint lid has a small dab of paint on the top, so I can easily pick the color I need. I try to keep them somewhat organized within the box, but that doesn't happen often.