Number of paints you have or are planning to buy ?

[samson]

I started cleaning my hobby room yesterday or should say started to finish it Lol . And can't believe the paint I have accumulated over the past few years . I think every time I needed a color instead of trying to make it myself I looked for it in a store . I have come to realize if I need a color I will try to make it myself moving forward I think this would give me a better understanding of color and theories that go with it . I have been fighting some inner demons of late but when I get to the point of picking up a brush I'm sure I will have many questions . Lol

 

[Tecumsea]

There are quite a few threads on here relating to colour mixing if you have a hunt around and a recent thread dealt with books on the subject of colour mixing which you should find very helpful.

Better to have too many paints rather than not enough by the way

Keith

 

[Forté]

I find that I only use about a third of the paints I have as I mix most of my shadows and highlights.

As for planning to buy. Three. Golden heavy body acrylics for the three main primaries (cadmium yellow light, cadmium red medium, and cobalt blue).

 

[hypertex]

I know how you feel, Samson. I built a paint rack for my paint and managed to fill it up so quickly that I built a second one. It is now full, too.

I find it very convenient to buy a new bottle of paint than to mix my own colors. I can mix color, but it can be tedious to match the same color for the final touch-ups. For my current figure, I started to write down a list of mixtures I used for each color. This will make remixing much easier for me as I have trouble remembering the mixtures. I will also paint a small swatch of the mixture on the paper.

Now I'm off to the hobby shop to buy more paint . . .

 

[OldTaff]

I've still got tubes of oil paint, well used, from 40 years ago, one of which, a Rembrandt brand of Burnt Alizarin Crimson, dear old Jim Woodley gave me. Just a half-size tube, but need to use so small amounts, it's still going strong Oils are so very economical

Alan

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

I've still got tubes of oil paint, well used, from 40 years ago, one of which, a Rembrandt brand of Burnt Alizarin Crimson, dear old Jim Woodley gave me. Just a half-size tube, but need to use so small amounts, it's still going strong Oils are so very economical

Alan

Can be once you have them all I have a cad scarlet I bought in 1986 and still have half a tube mind you its a series 6 so would not like to have to replace it now I think it was about £25 quid then

 

[billyturnip]

I think it was about £25 quid then

I can't begin to imagine the anguish that caused.

 

[OldTaff]

Yes, Ron, some of them are eye-wateringly pricey, but they do last, and don't seem to fade over time

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

I can't begin to imagine the anguish that caused.

Are you insinuating I'm a tight wad , remember where the hell you come from

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Yes, Ron, some of them are eye-wateringly pricey, but they do last, and don't seem to fade over time

You can pay 50 quid for some of the purples , but as Roger says not a chance in hell

 

[billyturnip]

Are you insinuating I'm a tight wad , remember where the hell you come from

That's what qualifies me to comment Ron. Looking forward to comparing notes at next years S&L.

 

[swralph]

About 200 jars of Tamiya acrylic.
About 100 mix of Vallejo and Games Workshop.
A fair few tubes of oil.
ME a paint tart......nah.

 

[Tommi]

As I paint all day every day I have accumulated many paints.

I mainly use acrylic and have the following, Scale 75 All colour sets with the flesh set and black and white set very easy to use, I like theses a lot and the two new WWII German paint sets are great. Andrea all colour sets, I particularly like their blue set for painting French Napoleonic's and the red set for British Napoleonic's. Several Vallejo paints, about 70ish which I probably only use about 5 of, several sets of the Lifecolour paints with the flesh set being very nice and the American uniform colour sets that work very well and have a matt finish. I use the Darkstar Range of molten metal paints for all metal work.

Tommi

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

As I paint all day every day I have accumulated many paints.

I mainly use acrylic and have the following, Scale 75 All colour sets with the flesh set and black and white set very easy to use, I like theses a lot and the two new WWII German paint sets are great. Andrea all colour sets, I particularly like their blue set for painting French Napoleonic's and the red set for British Napoleonic's. Several Vallejo paints, about 70ish which I probably only use about 5 of, several sets of the Lifecolour paints with the flesh set being very nice and the American uniform colour sets that work very well and have a matt finish. I use the Darkstar Range of molten metal paints for all metal work.

Tommi

Ah but Tommi you got more figures in stock than half a dozen shops so you need all those paints , and off course all your plastic stuff also

 

[Helm]

Are you insinuating I'm a tight wad , remember where the hell you come from

Hell being the operative word
Steve

 

[Helm]

Oh and I have this many paints
Steve

 

[Tommi]

That all looks errmm well organized Steve

Tommi

 

[Helm]

That all looks errmm well organized Steve

Tommi

Drives the missus nuts especially when I prove I can find ANY item or colour on it without even blinking
Steve

 

[Tommi]

One day Steve your desk could look like this

Cheers
Tommi

 

[Helm]

I did when I first bought it in the house, the ravages of time and all that
Steve