I bought a paint brush once as I hated getting paint under my fingernails

I bought a bag of 100 corks off eBay for about eight bucks U$.

@noyjatat  What does a set of that many GW paints cost?

I’ve never worked with GW paint.  Better or worse that others?

I bought some 3.5X magnification specs from a pound shop (although they cost £1.49). Probably not the best thing for your eyesight (mines buggered anyway). But after trying the proper magnification headband thingy and a desk magnifier I just use these instead, I tend to use these specs for just for detail work. They are just light on the head (unlike the headband thingy) and are easy to use. Probably would make your optician scream (which is why I limit myself to using them for the fine detail work). They do take some getting used to (as does all magnifiers as your hands move the paintbrush at a now “strange speed” and it’s sometimes difficult to range).

But I’m still using corks as painting handles, but all mine come from empties (which again doesn’t help your brush control) 😀

Problem with the GW paints is they do tend to dry in the bottle, there’s a few ways painters keep em fluid. One (a bit messy) option is to store them upside down on the rack.

I’ve got one bottle of GW paint in the old round flip top bottles still going strong after 30 years (I think they are sold as Cote D’Arms paints now?). I think Humbrol also did the paints back when they were in the old hex bottles with the screw top lid (those DO dry out pretty rapidly even if you never opened them due to the poor design of the bottles), Humbrol have relaunched their acrylics range so you can get some close matches there. Not sure who is doing the paints currently (or if production has been moved in house). Of course all my info on who actually made the paints is from wargamers grapevine at the time (so it’s probably wrong) 🙂