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So my girlfriend wanted to get me a paint rack for my hobby area for Christmas. It was a request of mine, and she looked at my paint stash and went for one of the big spinny-racks, which unfortunately isn't really workable as it'd take nearly all the space on my 'workbench.' I thought I'd see if anyone on Dakka has any suggestions.

I like the CNC Workshop style racks, and I do have a few inches at the back of my workbench that aren't convenient for use for other things. However, they're in Australia, I'm not, and the shipping would be offensively high.

My paints are a mix of GW and Reaper/Vallejo dropper bottles. I'm only looking to hold the 10-20 paints i'ma ctively using at any one time, and wouldn't turn down other storage, of course. Currently the paints end up in a blob across the workbench space.

Any suggestions? US availability is a big plus.

My apologies if this is the wrong forum. I thought it made more sense here than the general Dakka Discussions, but if a mode feels it should be moved, no problem.



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I know there's been at least one past thread on this topic:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/513117.page

http://www.etsy.com/listing/122182149/paint-rack-holds-54-craft-paint-bottles

This guy is actually on here. I have purchased two of the dropper style racks and they are about a foot wide and a couple of inches deep. To cut down on the footprint on my desk, I stacked them too. Extra screw or two to hold them together and then one or two on the top one into the wall to increase sturdiness. Well worth the $.

You could always go with nail polish racks.


This is on amazamazon for like less than 20$

These are good..

http://www.gamesandgears.co.uk/hobbygearspaintracksingleset.aspx#sthash.rVfDgFBp.dpbs

You'll have to wait, as the initial pre order batch has sold out, and they don't go on general sale until the New Year.

I ended up with three, was only after two, but my order got delayed and they sent an extra to say sorry..


Brilliant design if you own all sorts of different ranges, as they can all be thrown in and mixed together. Good job I got three in the end, two would have been a struggle to fit all my paint in!

TheIronBow's racks look like a winner right now, as a combo of availability, price, and size. I'm mainly looking for some space to keep my currently-in-use stuff from forming a weird mess on my small workbench space.

My buddy got a few of the nail polish racks - cheap and effective.

They look ok, and work great.

Found a hirst arts thread:
http://hirstarts.yuku.com/reply/63504/Re-Storage-of-your-GWetc-small-paint-containers

These guys look like a possibility as well:

http://www.burnindesigns.net/2012/09/new-products-vertical-paint-storage.html