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How do I do this? Paint seems to be constantly trying to get behind the flip top and onto the hinge. How do I stop this?

I scrape mine and dig out the dried paint every now and then. Stupid bottle. I think everyone would rather have an eye drop type bottle

I moved mine to droppers

When you open it, tip the bottle toward yourself (not so far that you spill it on yourself, just tip it away from the hinge). That will stop the paint rolling down the back of the tongue and will instead drip back in to the pot.

Though honestly, even doing that, there's many paints I have that for some reason always get paint around the lid. I think once you've already got some paint around there, it's hard to avoid getting more paint down it.

Thanks for the help!

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15cc natural is what you want. I do this with every GW paint I still use.

The Citadel pots are real crap. To those who have transferred the Citadel paints to dropper bottles: how have you done this without making a real mess?

 AngularDeath wrote:
The Citadel pots are real crap. To those who have transferred the Citadel paints to dropper bottles: how have you done this without making a real mess?

Patience and a steady hand. There will be some loss(about 2cc volume) as some will invariably stick to the sides of the GW pot. Still worth transferring though.

.. I have been thinking about that and after spending about £200 gpb on new GW paints Im tempted but after making new racks and all that I am looking at just how long they wuld take to dry vs spending £90 on dropper bottles and loosing a lot of paint pouring I'm still on the fence on whether or not to x-fer them all or just replace any that dry up in a few years.

 AngularDeath wrote:
The Citadel pots are real crap. To those who have transferred the Citadel paints to dropper bottles: how have you done this without making a real mess?

I use little metal funnels, drain them out, use an old brush to sweep the pot clean, then added flow aid, stop dry and water, shake, drain, sweep the funnel and done.

I also added some weights as agitators to the bottles.

It is far from perfect, but so much better than those horrible bloody pots


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Loss was bugger all, I lose more when it separates and medium gets stuck in the nozzle

jeff200sx wrote:
.. I have been thinking about that and after spending about £200 gpb on new GW paints Im tempted but after making new racks and all that I am looking at just how long they wuld take to dry vs spending £90 on dropper bottles and loosing a lot of paint pouring I'm still on the fence on whether or not to x-fer them all or just replace any that dry up in a few years.

You would be better off just replacing them with new paints from a dropper bottle range when they dry out or run out instead of spending £90 on droppers.