Problem with GW Paint

[StarFyre]

another idea...

someone here suggested to leave GW pots upside down. the paint clogs into teh lid area, so air can\'t enter, which will cause less paint drying.

When you need to use it and turn it over, just open it on a tilt forward, so the paint in the lid area drips down back into the main \"pot\" area

Or...get vallejos for model work, and craft paints (very cheap) for base work ...

Sanjay

 

[Onis Lair]

I HATE me a GW paint pot, i pretty much onl use GW paint, just hate the pots. After years of fighting with the lids, them drying out, especially here in Arizona, i ordered a bunch of dripper bottles from Western Plastics. Much as Airhead suggested earlier on this thread i put the paints in them and no longer have the drying problem. Instead i discovered that Western Plastic\'s dropper bottles tend to either leak very badly from the nozzel even when not in use or clog up so nothing comes out.

 

[airhead]

Originally posted by StarFyre
...leave GW pots upside down. the paint clogs into teh lid area, so air can\'t enter, which will cause less paint drying.

When you need to use it and turn it over, just open it on a tilt forward, so the paint in the lid area drips down back into the main \"pot\" area

Tried that, still needed the large pliers on the things. I emailed GW and asked if I could just buy a bunch of flip lids for my paints. No luck there either.
Bought paints in dripper bottles and solved all my problems.

@Onis Lair, first make sure that you squeeze enough paint so that the dripper bottle sucks back the bit left in the nozzel. (Squeeze a bit first, then invert - so that when you are done, it sucks all the paint back in leaving the nozzel free - at least in theory) But the WP bottles are cheap enough that if you get a bum tip, toss it.