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July 20, 2019 at 12:23 am #1416291

phaidknott

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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) 🙂