Exploding paint bottles.

[Hobbyinovator]

Just finished cleaning up my clothes, working table, floor and my newly painted figures, who all were splattered by a Valejo paint bottle, that exploaded when I tried to squeze some paint out of it. I thought I had removed the clogging when I stuck a needle in the hole still it exploaded, it's not the first time it hapened either. Have happened both with Valejo and Andrea paint bottles.

 

[tonydawe]

You get the Purple Heart Award for being wounded in the service of your hobby.

 

[Hobbyinovator]

Three of my four Tamiya japanese subordinates will get em as well.

 

[vergilius]

May I offer you the Belgian 'croix de guerre' with Bonze palm for getting wounded on the front?

 

[Manfred]

Well earned awards.

To receive even higher awards you have to shake a Humbrol or Tamiya bottle vigorously which you absentmindedly pried open seconds before ...

 

[mikec55]

Same thing happened to me & for the same reason but luckily, none of my figures were hit.
That must be how you get that can of spotted paint Moe wanted in one of the 3 stooges shorts.

Mike

 

[schley]

You paint a very worrying picture!!

 

[Hobbyinovator]

My workplace after some cleaning up. I was able to was of the most part of the paint before it dried, but as you see I was not succesfull in removing all paint. Paint spots ar on several har to reach places, I have scraped of some of it with a seamscraper, but sometimes I scrape of paint under the spots. Anyone have advice?

 

[dinovision79]

Anyone have advice?

Yes, don't squeeze the bottels too hard when they dried in you can remove the neck part and clean it throughly (if you push the clog in the bottle with a pin, as soon as you try to get some paint out of it, you'll squeeze it right back into the neck)!

As for the figures, I'm afraid you have to repaint the spots, or sratch it off and repaint.

 

[Einion]

To receive even higher awards you have to shake a Humbrol or Tamiya bottle vigorously which you absentmindedly pried open seconds before ...

Ah yes, the old classic!

Einion

 

[Manfred]

Einion:

 

[DEL]

All in all a bit of a paint in the A**. Oils rule OK.
Derek

 

[Jeff]

I have never been a fan of the eyedropper bottles. I take off the eyedropper part so I can stir the paints rather then having to shake them.