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I just got a workbench that will be my new hobby desk. I want to get racks to store the massive amount of GW paint I've amassed over the years. Does anyone know where to find these?

eBay has loads of them, and has most brands/pot styles covered.

I personally have 2 of the hobby lobby/ace hardwar orginizers and they are mostly organized by brand.
and then i have some organized by whether they are wash, metal or contrast.

I just ordered a pair of acrylic nail polish shelves from Amazon. They should be here this week sometime.

When looking, a lot of the options has circular cut outs. As I’ve got decades of different shaped bottles, I just wanted something simpler.

Can you guys provide me with links to these products?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MFRKJPJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Is the one I ordered. But they make them in a lot of different sizes.

Nail polish rack.
These aren't the exact ones i have, but they are pretty much the same thing. Someone even posted a picture on the amazon page of storing GW paints in it.

Another shout out for nail varnish racks for my GW pota.

I also printed a couple of holders for dropper style bottles



Loads of printable options on thingiverse for all sizes of pot.

I'm using racks from Hobby Zone.

Bottles from GW Base/Layer/Contrast/Shades are the easiest accessible. GW Dry/Technical & other ranges (Scalecolor, Vallejo) are in hangers on the walls.

 Nevelon wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MFRKJPJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Is the one I ordered. But they make them in a lot of different sizes.

Thanks man! I ordered ones similar to these from Amazon. I would have never thought to look at makeup holders.

 Davespil wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MFRKJPJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Is the one I ordered. But they make them in a lot of different sizes.

Thanks man! I ordered ones similar to these from Amazon. I would have never thought to look at makeup holders.

Our hobby has a long history of borrowing things for elsewhere and making them our own. But tiny pots of little paints? Not just us. While stealing cosmetic supplies, grab a brush for dusting minis and some nail polish remover (acetone) for stripping metal. Also a source of good tweezers for decal work.

I forget where I first saw the shelves used. One blogger here had them sitting on some MDF boxes of thin drawers.

I've got hobby zone drawers, and i'll definately recommend them, good quality, fast delivery, not any issues at all.

Quick followup:


Just got my paint shelves in. Should have gone for a larger one. Each 12” tray holds about 9 GW pots. I had a vision of being able to empty out my spare bin of rarely used paints, but these two are mostly full with just the active ones I had scattered around. I might move the light over so I can have both against the pegboard.

So far, so good.

I made a kind of tray where I can lay out all of my paints. I also had some GW paints, but I transferred all of them to dropper bottles to help get everything organised. On the tray, everything is arranged by colour.

Unfortunately, I don't really have access to this setup right now because I temporarily moved in with someone special because of the lockdown.