Buying New Paint

Buying New Paint

Well a new stumbling block.

I have not updated my paints in quite some time. Most of them are 7+ years old. I keep spraying my desk with paint as I squeeze the hell out of the old paint bottles. The paint within crusted over like a dried out desert well. This ends up being messy, wasteful, expensive, and an enormous time waster.

So I decided to throw out "most" of my old paint. WE will see. I am very attached to my craft paints.

I also made the decision to choose one company to go with and order over 100 colors from. I plan on using these most of the time. What do you want? Its baby steps here!

So my choices were:

Top Tier Choices (and a reason)

• Vallejo- Love the colors but not everyone carries them.
• Army Painter- Love the set. But Reaper has a nice set of various skin tones which I don't see on the Army Painter site.
• Reaper- Yeah, I picked these guys. Stable company. Huge selection of paints and minis. With Craft paints I keep on getting paint that rubs off of white bones even after I scrub them with a toothbrush and soapy water. That is a pain. So I am going to try Reaper's "Core Set" of paint. I see that they make a set just for bones but I need paints that are going to work well with metal and resin too.

Second Tier Choice

• Privateer Press- I love their paint pots, truthfully the reason these guys are so far down on my list is because I actually own so few of their paints. From what I have see I like them. I like there paint pots.

Last Tier Choices

• Games Workshop- I feel like the paint pods are designed to dry out paint. If I ever buy any of their paints in the future I am going to put them in dropper bottles I got off of Amazon. But man, what a pain. I would rather spend my time painting rather that transferring paints from one container type to another. It would have to be a really good color. And they are, I just can't bring myself to waste an entire afternoon transferring paint when I could be well, painting.
• Craft Paints- I love me some craft paints. I have been working with several of the colors in this category for over a decade. But I keep watching these videos of pro painters saying that these paints can make the models look better.  So I figured I would will give it a whirl... Top Tier, here we come! (Mostly).