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Anyone know of a source of cheap paint pots that can stand up to the likes of Tamiya alcohol based acrylics? All the Tamiya pots are glass, so I assume I need glass pots, but all the glass pots I can find made by Tamiya, Gunze or Hseng are around $3AUD each which kinda sucks a bit when you consider you could just buy actual paints for $4AUD

Any thoughts?

Maybe the cheap plastic dropper bottles you can get off ebay are sufficient, but I don't want to buy a bunch and transfer a heap of paint only to find out the strong alcohol based paint slowly dissolves them. So if anyone has experience I'd love to hear it.

HLJ sell gunze bottles, not sure on price though

I have some mr color thinner in a cheap ebay bottle, it's been fine for 2 weeks

You could take a look at purchasing Scintillation vials. They come in plastic/glass and in various sizes.

They are normally used for relatively small amounts of various liquids in chemistry and normally come in large lots, so they should be perfect for you.

Winter wrote:
You could take a look at purchasing Scintillation vials. They come in plastic/glass and in various sizes.

They are normally used for relatively small amounts of various liquids in chemistry and normally come in large lots, so they should be perfect for you.

They look cool, though I can't find any lots smaller than about 500 bottles at the moment, which is a few hundred more than I want

But it did send me down another path of finding glass bottles, "french square" or "boston round" seem to be glass bottles that can be bought in bulk for reasonably cheap.

Now I just need to find someone who sells them in Australia or ships to Australia. There's several ebay and amazon sources but they either don't ship to Australia or have huge shipping costs.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

Winter wrote:
You could take a look at purchasing Scintillation vials. They come in plastic/glass and in various sizes.

They are normally used for relatively small amounts of various liquids in chemistry and normally come in large lots, so they should be perfect for you.

They look cool, though I can't find any lots smaller than about 500 bottles at the moment, which is a few hundred more than I want

But it did send me down another path of finding glass bottles, "french square" or "boston round" seem to be glass bottles that can be bought in bulk for reasonably cheap.

Now I just need to find someone who sells them in Australia or ships to Australia. There's several ebay and amazon sources but they either don't ship to Australia or have huge shipping costs.

Depending on how many you need, if you are relatively close to any University, you could probably duck by the science faculty and ask if the lab techs would give/sell you some vials.

They will probably go in for it.

I did find this place http://glassbottlesdirect.cart.net.au/epages/glassbottlesdirect.sf/en_AU/?ObjectPath=/Shops/glassbottlesdirect/Products/%22WG%20910TO%22/SubProducts/%22WG%20910TO-0002%22. They sell out of Brisbane and you can get small glass jars (30 ml) at 70 cents a piece.

Looks a bit odd, but they do have an ABN (49114524686).

I do actually work at a University, though in Engineering rather than Chemistry/Biology where I imagine they'd use those vials.

Yeah I saw that place, 30ml is pretty big for a mixing pot (given Tamiya pots are only 10ml anyway) so I'd possibly go for this one instead:

http://glassbottlesdirect.cart.net.au/epages/glassbottlesdirect.sf/en_AU/?ObjectPath=/Shops/glassbottlesdirect/Products/PAN15-CL

I also saw this place, at first I thought they were much more expensive because you have to buy the caps separate but then I realised the price goes down if you order 10+, so they aren't too badly priced (though still a bit more expensive)....

http://shop.newdirections.com.au/Packaging/Bottles/Glass-Bottles/Boston-Bottles

Much better value than the Tamiya and Gunze pots, hopefully they don't dry out! I also saw Alclad sell packs of 3 bottles for reasonably cheap, but finding someone who stocks them is again a challenge.

Tamiya acrylics and Gunze lacquers are my favourite for airbrushing, but the colour range sucks and I don't like having to mix colours every single time, so I was figuring I'd get a bunch of empty pots so I can just mix a lot of my common colours.