GW and vallejo paints in cargo hold.

[Dekulus]

If i choose to go away and take my paints with me in the plane cargo hold, will they be ok ?

I once did this years ago and my inks exploded due to the pressure. Has anyone taken paints on board an aircraft ?

Nowdays they can't go in hand luggage unless you try a bit first hehe. I'm sure skull white doesn't taste very nice.

 

[PegaZus]

Yeah, I'd put any pot with a flip top lid into some nice tight ziplock bags. Screw tops might be okay... but I'd ziplock them too. Wouldn't be surprised if a bit oozes out regardless.

And that's discounting any surly baggage handlers.

If you've got the dropper bottles, something I do for trips to higher altitude is to squeeze a bit of air out then tighten the cap. Not sure it'll work on aircraft though.

 

[me_in_japan]

I've taken paint pots onto planes before* (last month, actually). I find it helps a lot if you just use a bit of Sellotape to stick the lid down before you pack up your paints. This provides enough resistance that the top won't pop off so easily, should air pressure become an issue. For dropper bottle type, they should be fine as-is.

*in the hold baggage, of course.

 

[Hasdrubal]

Should be OK, did it once withuot adverse impact, as planes are pressurized. Just remember the restrictions about liuids and gels when flying, so I'd suggest to select a limited amount of colors

 

[Tommie Soule]

As long as all is legal some tape and zippy bags as already mentioned should be ace!

 

[Einion]

I once did this years ago and my inks exploded due to the pressure.

Sure that was the cause? The hold is pressurized, same as the rest of the aircraft. If it weren't then underarm deodorants and anything else in a can in all the luggage would likely have exploded, and everything liquid would have boiled and then frozen solid, which would be fairly catastrophic to say the least.

Anyway, I've travelled with paints of various kinds in the checked luggage many times, never had a problem. Definitely worth putting them in a ziplock though for safety. Double bag 'em if you have any worries, with the seam placed on opposite sides.

Einion

 

[Dragonsreach]

I once did this years ago and my inks exploded due to the pressure.

Sure that was the cause? The hold is pressurized, same as the rest of the aircraft. Einion

Remember Not All Aircraft Holds were pressurised and this is stated as happening years ago.

The vast majority of Passenger aircraft are now fully pressurised, but not to the 15psi at ground level.
Fran and I on our return from Canada emptied a water bottle on a flight (*) and saw the result on landing, the bottle looked like it had been run over.
(* this was August 2001)

 

[Einion]

The outer skin on commercial passenger aircraft is the pressure skin, so by default the entire volume within that skin will be pressurised.

That's not to say that ground pressure is maintained, far from it. Most planes are run at something like the equivalent to what you'd experience on a high mountain road. That difference compared to near-sea-level pressure shouldn't worry most containers, still better to be safe of course and bag things you're worried about.

The option for the airlines is supposedly heating this area, which of course to save money they won't bother doing if they don't have to. This is pretty frequently the case, as most people will know from how cold things can be when you unpack your suitcase.

Einion

 

[Avelorn]

The "ketchup effect" of expanding gases could perhaps play in as well as the temperature varies a lot.