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September 30, 2025 at 6:42 pm #1945228

gorram
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I’m still in the depths of tidying various bits of my hobby crap. I’m on to my paints. I have 300 odd of them and at the moment they are partly stored in an mdf rack on a wall and the rest are split in two extra cardboard boxes.

I’d really like some inspiration from how you all store your paints. I have a mix of various different paints and this isn’t about making some youtuber or pinterest friendly, aesthetically pleasing perfection. Just how normal hobbyists have their paints.

Go on, show me your racks (or boxes, no judgement here).

September 30, 2025 at 7:02 pm #1945237

Lazagram
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You asked for it; behold, the mess under the stairs. I mostly use Citadel and Army Painter paints, so basically only two styles of racks, the hexagonal ones, some from Citadel, others printed in the style of, and the same with the Army Painters, just 3d printed holders again. I also have a box of multiples, 15 Macragge blue and 13 Bugman’s glow etc, hidden from sight due to its heft. Recently got some of the Skada board from Ikea, pretty keen to see what systems I can print for that to get some of the paint off my desk and up on a wall.

September 30, 2025 at 9:05 pm #1945244

danlee
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I use one of these wooden drawer units. The big drawer holds most of my colours and my washes. I’ve sorted them by colour, usually base colour, mid-highlight and then top highlight. The medium size drawers are browns and metalics. The top drawers are for contrast paints and dry paints (I need to throw all the dry paints out, as ironically they’ve all dried out). The other small drawer is my greens. The final drawer holds flock, not paints.

September 30, 2025 at 9:17 pm #1945245

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300? You’ll need a bigger boat… I mean a bigger tackle or sowing box for that. I’m “all over the place” currently but with that amount of paints I think I would go with something like a Architect Drawers / Plan Chest / Map Drawers kind of things. Something with wide drawers that is just high enough so that dropper bottles fit in. To maximise space.

September 30, 2025 at 9:19 pm #1945246

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September 30, 2025 at 9:29 pm #1945247

gorram
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@Lazagram The peg board stuff I’ve seen is pretty cool looking. I only have a resin printer and it has been put away for the winter already. Definitely interested to see what you come up with. Seeing people’s hobby set ups is the wargamer’s Through The Keyhole.

@danlee that reminds me we have a bunch of wooden Ikea drawers at work that are very similar. They aren’t being used… Hmm, might need to look at the thought they might be a little deep

September 30, 2025 at 9:31 pm #1945248

gorram
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@sundancer yeah drawers might be a good shout. Wall mounted is fine but anything that saves me getting up from my desk XD

@orinoco ah, now I see. By colour you said?

September 30, 2025 at 9:40 pm #1945249

gorram
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Suppose I should what I currently use. The box on the desk isn’t usually there, it lives under the desk and is a combination of rarely used and duplicates/replacements for bottles due to run out.

Drawers would also have the benefit of less dust accumulation.

September 30, 2025 at 9:41 pm #1945250

gorram
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And yes, it is very silly to have paints above a radiator, thankfully this isn’t one that I use

September 30, 2025 at 9:59 pm #1945252

orinoco
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I try to sort by colours. Green row, Blue row ending in army painter washes, yellow/orange and fluorescent row, 3 rows of brown (why?), flesh tones, black and grey, white then Gerry Can wood paint, metallic row.

There are some inks in other spaces. Plus I have xpress and stuff elsewhere.

October 1, 2025 at 3:37 am #1945260

grantinvanman
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Oh friends, patriots, @gorram … IKEA makes wonderful picture holders, and Amazon makes similar. Behold, my closet painting space. I have … 300 paints? A table, with storage; a pegboard to hold random stuff; compressor for my airbrushes is under the table. I have four airbrushes on the table. I use ikea big tubs for spray catchment (with either full face or half mask 3M P100 filters). And yes, my garbage bin is a “Frozen” sand pail, because, if nothing else, I am … whimsical? 😂

Paints are sorted by brand, and ROYGBIV; mediums and other “stuff” gets their own shelf. This is actually become more full – this was spring 2025.

October 1, 2025 at 5:35 pm #1945339

limburger
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pictureholders by IKEA ?
Now there’s a thing I hadn’t thought of.

I think there’s a hobbyroom project somewhere that has used acrylic nail polish storage and peg boards to great effect.

Most of my paints are dropper bottles, but I’ve got more than a few tubes from Scale75 range as well.
I like the idea of having the paints visible instead of in a drawer under the desk somewhere, because I think it will make it easier for me to get ideas for painting.

October 2, 2025 at 8:12 am #1945373

scribbs
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I only have a temporary painting space at the end of my dining table, so it has to be torn down after every session, and tidy away quickly. My paints are stored in a 9L RUB, low footprint, easy to stick to one side, and places hard limits on volumes of paint.

You can get inserts that sit in the top of a RUB that are great for holding tools and brushes.

Underneath lies all my paints, plus a few other things like brush soap and some basing stuff. Cutting/paint mat and palettes sit on the box when closed, keeping everything relatively constrained.

Nowhere near an ideal solution, but works for my situation.

October 2, 2025 at 5:41 pm #1945415

grantinvanman
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This is my “mountain of doom” shot. Above the paints, this lurks.

October 3, 2025 at 10:28 pm #1945549

gorram
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@grantinvanman those picture shelves are nice, never seen them before. I really should make the trek out to an Ikea at some point.

@scribbs I really like those inserts for the RUBs, I’ve used several of them recently for storing cards, specialist dice etc in army boxes.
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