How to get the paint out from GW paint bottle

[Rickka]

Hi everyone, I\'m new to painting but not quite sure how to start:

I bought a few GW paints, how do I get the paints out from the bottle? I know that may sound stupid but how you guys do it?

Do you use a old brush to get the colour on the palette?
If I do so should I clean (and wipe out excess water?) the brush first before taking another colour to avoid contamination? [

Cheers, Rick

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by Rickka
Hi everyone, I\'m new to painting but not quite sure how to start:

I bought a few GW paints, how do I get the paints out from the bottle? I know that may sound stupid but how you guys do it?

Do you use a old brush to get the colour on the palette?
Yes Best way for me.
Others use a match (Sans head of course)


If I do so should I clean (and wipe out excess water?) the brush first before taking another colour to avoid contamination? OH YES. Consider having two water pots , one for mixing and one for washing your brushes.

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Cheers, Rick

 

[Wren]

I use toothpicks. I keep a small plastic plate on my desk to rest the toothpicks on until they\'re dry. I reuse the picks, they start to build up a bubble of paint that works well for grabbing and stirring paint.

 

[Rickka]

Thanks guys !! I think I\'ll use match then, cleaning the brush everytime I take a new colour seems tedious. I hope this won\'t make the paint dry faster (faster than dropper type eh?)

 

[matty1001]

Iv also found with GW pots that if you screw the lids off there is a huge build up of paint under the lid. Its a little thicker than normal but it just requires a bit more water.

 

[Rickka]

So should I add some water into the bottle after every painting session? Or add it once every two three weeks?

 

[mczolton]

I\'ve transfered all of my GW color to Reaper dropper bottles.

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Rev]

personally, after i\'ve finisged a unit i clip up the sprue into 1 or 2 inch sections and use that to move tha paint.

similar to the matchstick theory but saves throwing away the sprues.

 

[Modderrhu]

I used to use the toothpick/match method. It works quite nicely, since it also allows you to count the drops if you want to make little colour recipes. The biggest drawback is the small amount of paint transferred at one time.

After that, I bought a whole bunch of empty dropper bottles, and syringed the paints into their new homes. It\'s a bit of a hassle, but I do that with every bottle of GW paint now.

 

[airhead]

Have you tried yelling at it?

\"Get up and out of that bottle you worthless drop of paint.\"

Maybe tipping the bottle over? That seems to get most of it out for me.

lol

Actually, try Western Plastics for dropper bottles. If you are not interested in that, then use a toothpick/matchstick/old brush handle to transfer a drop at a time. Just realise that you are losing a couple of drops on the matchstick for each drop on your pallet.

 

[Temporary Sanity]

Originally posted by airhead
Have you tried yelling at it?

\"Get up and out of that bottle you worthless drop of paint.\"

Maybe tipping the bottle over? That seems to get most of it out for me.

lol

Hah, thanks for the laugh Airhead

I try to stay away from what GW paints I have remaining. I do, however, have plenty of Reaper Pro paints, and the Vallejo Game Color case of 72. For my Reaper and GW\'s I use an eyedropper. It probably wastes as much, if not more paint as a toothpick/stick/sprue/whatever, but it allows me to control how much paint I put onto my pallete. A few squeezes in my cleaning water, and it\'s good to go again

 

[Drake Farstrider]

When I was young and used GW paints, I just used the back of my brush to transfer the paint.

 

[Arkzein]

Use an ancient brush here also, don\'t think it matters too much what you use with regards to recipes as long as you\'re consistant when you find a mix that works. Probably have to work out all my thnning amounts again should I change how I get the paint out. (ie right now half a brush of paint to two full loads, and a slight dip, of medium is perfect and works out about 5:1 I recon, but don\'t know for sure, just that it\'s right for me)

As for cleaning brushes I use three cups. One always used first, second and third to stop any chance of colour contamination, two would do though. Nothing more frustrating. Means you can sit a bit longer without changing the brushwater as well if you\'re l lazy git like myself.

 

[Rickka]

I painted chaos black undercoat on Legolas (20 dollars for GW spray?...i don\'t know...). At the end of the session my toothpick became a black walking stick....

And I found that the paint dried out fast.....I just invested 60 Aussie dollars on GW paints (20 paints).....oh well.

I tried yelling at the bottle airhead, but it just don\'t work....maybe I should sing?