A painting analysis

No, I’m a very rudimentary painter and use the minimum of colors.

Hi Donald.

I have one those MDF portable workstation things that I use. It can hold a container for water, many brushes & then something like 30-35 bottles of paint/primer etc. Also has 3 drawers under the paint rack for little items. I keep conversion parts, green stuff, scalpel blades etc in those.

I tend to always have the colours & primers I use consistently, left in the rack. So obviously black, white, flesh, metallics etc, but also as a Napoleonic fan, there will be the basic shades for British, French, Prussian, Russian, Austrian etc kept in the rack also.
I will then swap around the existing room in the rack for the colours I need specifically for the regiment I am working on, or if painting horses, I will have various shades of brown, grey, beige etc on the go, not to mention colours needed for tack.

What is not required I keep in a compartmented fishing box, deep enough for Vallejo size bottles to stand up in, in that box I will then have my paints organised into specific colour shades.

So when painting I have everything to hand on the rack, but if I do need another colour I couldn't fit in the rack, the box is close to hand if needed.

On the work surface itself of the MDF paint rack, I have a few thin metal bars, plastic rods etc for blue-tacking the figures on if metal so can paint them, or if plastics on a sprue, I leave them on that, trimming off any joins apart from those connecting the base, & paint them that way.

It's a system that works for me, keeps things organised & helps when working on figures.
Also means if I have back ache being at a desk, I can take the lot & relax on a sofa or bed & just carry on!!

What it does do, is show how many different bottles of paint I have collected!! Plus duplicates of those I use a lot of!! Certainly end up with an awful lot of paint in this hobby!!