wasted paint

[ochoin]

Addressing item# 452 on the list of chores to be done during the lock-down, I retrieved a one litre tin of white paint, originally used to paint the various posts holding the house up, from the shed. These posts needed re-touching & it wasn't an onerous task to complete the job; practically on the last drop of paint in the tin.

I was looking at my paint-encrusted plastic palettes I use for figure painting; regularly cleaned but always with blobs & gobbets of dried paint on them. I try not be totally wasteful but when mixing paint for the hobby, however, you need to err on the side of generous. Even colours used straight from the dropper bottles seems to end up in wasteful mounds on the palette.

Given that Vallejo is far more expensive than even the best Dulux house paint, this is quite a waste of money. Is it just me? Saying a Scot is frugal is redundant so I may just be over reacting. Or am I?

donald

[Vintage Wargaming]

I’ve wondered about trying a wet palette. Would that help with this sort of paint waste? - the straight from the bottle kind?

[Jeremy]

It would. They’re easy enough to make from household items. I’ve mastered the art of only squeezing tiny drops of paint out and scoop it back into the bottle if there’s still too much left.

[Essex Boy]

I don't worry about wasting paint. I try not to, but generally I splodge a far too large a dollop on the pallet. Even with that approach, I find that the paint lasts ages. Black and ivory are my most used colours and I doubt I work through a Vallejo dropper bottle in a year.....maybe a bit less.

£2.25 ish for a bottle of paint is dirt cheap, isn't it?

[goat major]

you won't be so profligate when you are in week 347 of the lockdown....

[Jeremy]

A year? Go nigh on a decade with most of mine. But then we’re poor in the North and squandering is beaten out of us before we can walk.

Must be nice to live in the South. Like an alternative reality where everything is sunny and the girls have orange tans.

[ochoin]

Like an alternative reality where everything is sunny and the girls have orange tans.

That's not a tan. They smear themselves with copious amounts of Vallejo Model Colour Bright Orange - 70851.

donald

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Must be nice to live in the South. Like an alternative reality where everything is sunny and the girls are orang-utans.

FTFY.

And get you - only in the UK five minutes and already talking like a professional oppressed northerner! You'll be boasting about your kids having rickets before you know it!!!

[Jeremy]

Must be nice to live in the South. Like an alternative reality where everything is sunny and the girls are orang-utans.

FTFY.

And get you - only in the UK five minutes and already talking like a professional oppressed northerner! You'll be boasting about your kids having rickets before you know it!!!

You forget Baron I’m the only one in my family not born in the North. My siblings and I were raised Northern. Even in the Southern Hemisphere!

[goat major]

Jeremy lives in a Schrodinger-style world where he is simultaneously Northern and Southern