Hey look at that! a video on youtube about paint and it's not just "use a wet palette". Thanks for this.

3:44 white paint only good for leveling couches, 3:51 uses it to paint anyway 🤣🤣🤣

From a watercolorist here (and watercolor paints are even more expensive). What dries paint is always.. air... even the tiny amount that pass trough the lid. Put your tubes, pots etc inside a larger airtight container and you double the time they stay safe.

A trick someone taught me is to buy a bottle of clear water soluble acrylic floor wax (i.e. Favor or Mop&Glow, etc.) and add a few drops to your paint. My paints last forever (seriously I'm talking decades here) and I'm still on my first bottle of acrylic floor wax.

One ting worth adding to the whole thing about paint drying out, is that for people living in hotter climates it's not necessarily air getting out that's the issue. If your paint's got condensation in the lid, it's not air getting out, it's the paint getting cooked.

I think Ceramite white and the fact that it comes in the GW starter set teaches the new painter an important lesson in that some paints are just bad and that there's nothing you can do. Pick up a pot of white scar and consider your lesson learned.

3:14 Danny de Vito and dakimakuras? You sir, are a scholar.

Very informative and entertaining! I still switch my GW paints to dropper bottle when I get the chance, but yeah, for washes and contrast, pots are king.

Oh, finally a use for that White, thanks for the tip!

This channel is on its good way to become one of my favorite miniature channels ❤️

Thanks for inspiring me to rehydrate my pots. Got some from 1999 still going strong.

that eva foam hack totally blew my brains away...Gotta start cutting up some pieces right after I pick my brain matter from the floor I love your format and every joke you squeeze into your vids xD thanks for sharing!

But I only own one company's full paint line :(

I cant remember the name, but, I love that citadel road strip yellow. It's my favorite yellow. Army painter's daemonc yellow is nice too.

3:45 "But it might be good for leveling your couch" Somebody call the police I've witnessed a murder

Love your style and humour Jay. Some great advice in this video. Thanks!

This channel is great. The videos actually help me in a way most others don't.

Watching the paint go straight onto the model sent a shiver up my spine

8:31 made me physically feel pain

I fully agree with you, guy. Paints are here to be used, not to be seen on shelf. Nice video, thanks for posting !

Fantastic paint advice here, especially the point about not buying too much!

Commentary is hilarious... but behind all your satire... you are absolutely correct... and yes I occasionally level my couches with Citadel Pots

3:13 hold up, we need to see this shopping cart when it is delivered

Shelf life thug got me rollin 🤣🤣🤣

I had some old GW pots of inks and paints (you know, the ones with the black screw-on cap) survive ~20 years in the attic, stored in a camera bag. Always cold or freezing temperatures. Some was hard as a rock, but others was like brand new!

Just found your channel and am already learning some things from just two videos.

yo, im about to do the craft foam cap trick to all my paints. thats awesome! thanks for the idea!

3:13 Wow, for a minute I was really shocked here - because that shopping cart looks exactly like mine!

id defiantly recommend getting a paintset or two, you don't need much but a little variety goes a long ways, especially for beginners that don't even know what kind of colors are out there

This video was hilarious!!!! 😂😂

At our hobby shop"the Hobby Lobby" they allow anyone to come in and paint models on Thursdays. They will either give you a little war hammer model or you can bring in your own. It's a great way to learn skills from other people. And check out all the paints they carry. Or what the other people have in their paint kits. It's a really great way to have fun. Stay out of trouble and learn.

great content found you recently and I really enjoy watching your videos,

30 years of painting and i never thought to use the back of the brush to transfer paint to the palette. mind blown

Lol if you want your paints to last, rule 1 it's don't buy GW. But If you are already invested in GW paints, if you really wanna stick it to the man then store them upside down. The paint forms a seal in the lid and keeps air from drying it out. I'm pretty sure that's actually that why they went to round top to paint pots- To make it hard to store them upside down. I was once offered a job at AGW store in had to turn it down, but I have insider information that the paint drying out In the pot is actually intentional. That way if it doesn't get used and dries out, people have to buy more. So flip GW a big middle finger by storing your paint upside down, although again I know it's challenging with their pots having round lids. And again, this was intentional to make it difficult to store them this way.

I returned to hobby after years. At the moment I use my citadel chaos black from 1993. It is in good condition with out any care since 1995.

Adding the little circle in the cap of dropper bottles is a pretty outstanding idea. Never heard it before now. I have ... a lot ... of dropper bottles to get to.

When I first started painting in the late 80s I was pretty much broke so I had the five colors, yello, red, blue, white and black, you had those and you had them all. I had a handy trick for drying paint, alcohol, if I opened a tub and found it was dry, I'd get shitfaced on Vodka and just didn't care any more! Problem solved.

Oh Star Wars Legion Clone Wars ! That's exciting ! I'd love to see you cover some star wars planet basing ! From Kamino to Kashyyyk there's a lot to explore ! :p Great advice for better sealing the dropper bottles ! Most of my Game colors seem to have this problem so I'll give it a try !

I got back into painting after 30 years away from the hobby, old paints stored in a cardboard box in the loft. I had about 30 pots of old GW paints, round pots from before the old hex pots, and 20 of them were still good to use. I hate the GW pots for anything other than washes, and put them all into droppers. Pro Acryl 'twist top droppers' have to be the worst of both worlds, best paints worst bottles.

Great video as always, definitely see the results of all the that time put into the production value for this video compared to past videos! However, in that same time, you could have easily have put those GW Paints into Alibaba bottles.😜

I like to put a drop of distilled water in the pots if they look like there drying out when sealing up after use.

My 1996 games workshop shining gold is still wet and shiny, I guess it belongs in a museum.

Love the “tip” at the end.

Also, whatever you do, DO NOT put little lead fishing weights in your paint bottles as agitators! I did this and lost about 40 of my Vallejo paints! A very pricy mistake! The paint reacts very badly to the lead, especially reds, and with in two weeks they all coagulated into solid masses. Stainless steel BBs or ceramic beads are best.

One enemy is air/paint ratio. As the paint level drops, the air amount increases. To solve this, drop a marble into to pot to reduce the amount of air in a resealed pot container.

I just had paused this video and ran to my room to give a vigorous shake to a few dozen bottles of vellejo I bought last year and had been collecting dust in the corner of my closet, lol.

some very nice new tips, I've never haerd of before.

I adore the ceramite white hate. It gives me life to know how someone else knows my pain.

Best decision when I just started a year ago was jumping on someone selling their P3 paints, they contrast with citadels thickness very well.

I just bought a set of 50 paints that I have watched several reviews about and its competitors. Damn this algorithm. 😅

Very complete and useful... and funny. Thanks my friend.

Great video. I have sadly had that 8:31 happen way too much in my painting career. I think the tips you gave here may help me avoid another disaster.

9:30 this happened to me recently with my Vallejo Red... It was a sad day... Learned my lesson - keeping some paper clips around since then.

I got back into warhammer two years or so ago, and all my old black-pot GW paints, was ruined. But my Game color and army painter stuff was as good as new. I actually still haven't used them up yet. Make of that what you will, but even for a new painter, I'd say to not buy GW paints. Unless you are buying washes, those are fantastic, and no new painter should be without the two main sources of liquid skill!

Thank you for this video. Actually the "conspiration theory" of GW having bad pots on purpose can be easily put to rest, if you just look up the line of production. I own some pots from the second generation of citadel paints (where the skull white actually worked as intended) Also I bought the 3rd generation line in the big box at that time (and screwed up storing them properly since I was too young and naive) The 3rd generation pots were with screw on lids, which were absolutly not airtight. (yes, except for some washes none survived, but with my knowledge today, I could have saved them...) The 4th generation had an improved lid, which could be flipped opened in the middle, without removeing the whole lid. I dont know exactly which generation of pot we are using currently, since I had some RL interfering with my hobby life. But since you mentioned the pots before the actual line, I think the main reason for that step was cost reduction. The older lid seems to be more plastic than the newer one.

"Paint have shelf life" Ah yes, GW Corax White, why did I buy it 😂😅

That couch joke

Excellent, entertaining video!

Love this channel

I have bought a lot of paint in a short period of time and definitely relate to the advice to slow down. I probably own more paint in value than models, so I ought to switch focus and get some stuff painted

i had the old old gw pots. and now i am sitting on a shed load of little blocks of color in the little plastic blacktops. managed to save some of the 12 year old stuff by drowning some in demi water and stirring the hell out of it. but most of it is a loss to be fair. now i just pop a glass bead in all of my new ones and give them a shake every so often.

I subscribed for Black Templars, I stayed for the @1:29

Lol - the blooper reel at the end 🤣

Games Workshop does make the best couch levelers!

Thank you for the tip with the droppers

As an imperial fist player, I can say I own way to many yellows, 14 to be exact, took me forever to find the best ones that work for my taste.

You can use a bit of leftover sprue as a paint agitator too!

Just for my new wet palette last night - it’s excellent! And did you guys get this idea from the LIVE the other day?! Lol great video - really helpful

Yes

Just transfer your Citadel paints to dropper bottles 😉

I gambled and got Vallejo brown all over my wall haha

i only use the 3 basic colors, white and black.... so 5 on total. and i also have ONE metallic, which is silver. thats all. i can mix them to be any color i want them to be.

I just made that chib with some bearings they started to cut due to weak chrome plating

oooh i just realised this was uploeaded on my bday

I actually had a similar dropper explosion of a bright blue on about 10 mini’s I had in front of me on my desk, recently finished for kill team.. It made me quit the hobby for about 6 months. 😭😂

Excellent video

Yes, i was looking for this. On my way to get some eva foam.

LMAO! "Paint is not LEGOs!"

I have only lost a retributior armor that dried out because I didn't close it tight enough

Loved the corny jokes. Best video yet.

Love these videos!!

Question: How much does Acrylics like folk art or other all purpose craft paints? I had used Citidal a long time ago. Last time I had bought any it was really weak color and runny like a wash, it wasn't a wash. It was supposed to be opaque. btw, I love my Folk Art paints that I have gotten recently to do background colors for cross stitch.

7:15 well that escalated quickly

Love your videos, been delaying the time to get in to this hobby, there are many reasons and excuses, but seeing your videos made me stop delaying the painting of minatures. Sometime ago I bought some elf minatures from a friend, but never bought any special paints from any brand like the ones mentioned in the video; access in my region to this specially branded paints is not easy, because of costs and color availabiliry among other reasons, but i have easy access to a great amount of brands and colors of acrilic and oil paints, as you talk about using water or acrilic thiner to stop the paint from drying, I think i will be fine with the paints i have access to. ¿Can you confirm if my thinking is right or wrong?. Keep up the good work, greetings from Colombia

Woo Hoo Red Top Plaza represented!

You wanna know a good way not to waste paint? Don't spill it on your glass drafting desk, as I did!

I still miss Ral Partha paints, I have ten that are more than thirty years old; but my favorite paint is still the Reaper Pro Paint line, and I have a bunch of those left at twenty-plus years old now. I've never wasted so much paint with pots, as using dropper bottles causes.

2:32 Daemonic yellow does not deserve any love. WORST PAINT.

Shelf life! Hah! Love it

1:55 you've gotta stop it, dude. Stop this. 7:38 STOP THAT

Lots of great info, and a funny video too.

lately i really switched to use alot of inks and less citadel paint ^^

Bring back Jayfield

nice video, you are hilarious

How to not waste paint: DONT BUT PURE WHITE PAINTS FROM GAMES WORKSHOP

6:15 I think you're supposed to remove that little piece of plastic at the back of the pot, no ? I have only one of those new pots (just got back into the hobby) and I'm tempted to cut it

I own shit loads of paint, but am happy to rehydrate them when needed. It's just water evaporating after all.

I thought Qui gon said there's always a bigger fish

Great editing, great video! Keep it up! :D Love the channel. ...Also don't buy Citadel paints lmao.

*hides his still usable GW paints from 1996*