Gripe: Vallejo labels

[hakoMike]

The print on Vallejo game color labels comes off if you breath on it too hard. I\'ve taken to putting a piece of tape across the printing on each label, just to keep it from rubbing off, but it still irks me.

End of gripe. Please return to your painting.

 

[james sequeira]

ive found the game colour does this but my model colour do not ???

 

[striker8]

I noticed that along time ago too.

Get\'s frustrating at times some of the colors are so close in color through the bottle.

I like the tape idea. I\'ll try that on the next ones I get.

 

[TAB Studio]

I put a piece of clear tape on the label as soon as they arrive to the house. Seems to prevent this problem.

 

[donga666]

I tend to grab colours at random anyway, so it does not effect me lol

 

[generulpoleaxe]

i have had this problem with game colour as well.:~(

when mr vallejo looks through the site as he often does (how cool is that!) maybe he will address this issue.:idea:

 

[finn17]

Hmmmmm...

I know VAllejo paints are the biz, but have you tried not \'heavy breathing\' on them?

I don\'t think I have ever found the need to breath on my paints..have you discovered a new technique you might like to share?:flip:

 

[hakoMike]

Originally posted by finn17
I know VAllejo paints are the biz, but have you tried not \'heavy breathing\' on them?

I don\'t think I have ever found the need to breath on my paints..have you discovered a new technique you might like to share?:flip:

It\'s the Winsor and Newton Series 7 that elicits the heavy breathing. The Vallejos are just in the collateral damage radius.

EDIT: replaced incorrectly used word \'illicits\' with correct verb \'elicits\'. Pity the language, to take such abuse.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Nope, never found this problem.

 

[generulpoleaxe]

that\'s because you use model colour mike.

my model colour labels are fine, but the printed paint names on my game colour lables rubs off with ease.
(it\'s a good job i go off rough colours as i am useless with the paint names.)

 

[Thecadian]

oh this is a new one for me.What about writing the names on with perm marker??

james

 

[Infidel Castro]

Surely you paint with your eye for colour, not what a pot of paint tells you from its label? Hardly the end of the world is it lol

 

[hakoMike]

Originally posted by reverend
Surely you paint with your eye for colour, not what a pot of paint tells you from its label? Hardly the end of the world is it lol

Sure, but lots of the tutorials and technique descriptions that people post use color names.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Aye, but surely you memorise them? I always have!

 

[finn17]

*sniff sniff\"*

Ah, the gentle aroma of bullshit in the morning...:bouncy:

 

[hakoMike]

Originally posted by reverend
Aye, but surely you memorise them? I always have!

lol Sorry, no. Maybe a few, but I don\'t know a scrofulous brown from a plague brown or a cold gray from a wolf gray.

 

[Drake Farstrider]

I have had this problem as well. Luckily I know which is which.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by finn17
Ah, the gentle aroma of bullshit in the morning...:bouncy:

lol

 

[Sonnyslayer]

yeah i have the same prob.. i just write the paint number on the pot..

 

[airhead]

The last two posts read alone are what keep me coming back for more.

lol

Sonnyslayer, I am sorry you have the same problem as Finn in the mornings. lol