Paint and Organization

These are the most common liquid paints in my collection, Tamiya acrylic paints.

I like that they have a wide range of military colors, and clean up with water.  Although I use their paint thinner to clean the brush after it has been water cleaned.

Naturally the State of California has a mandatory warning label on them because leftists don't like you to have fun.

Because the tiny warnings on the side of the jar are not enough.

Testors are my oldest continuous use paints.  I probably first got them in abut 1965.

These are enamel and require paint thinner for clean up.  

The Flat Green, 1164 is my standard WWII US Army canvas color.  Although not all that accurate for the job, when I started using it at age ten it seemed okay to me.  I kept using it rather than change so the Army would be uniform, that seemed more important than being right.  Not unlike the real army.

1165 Flat Olive is my WWII US Army color and the jar paint is a perfect match to the spray paint.  And it has matched perfectly for 60 years!  I have used enough of this stuff to not only paint my whole house, but probably pay for it as well.

It looks pretty nice on this Paul Heiser Sherman tank with Aunt Jemima mine roller.

I put little stickers on the lids of these paint bottles.  The serial number tells me the contents of the jar, after 50 years you get to recognize these things.  The serial number and the name of the color tell me the jar has been opened.  I store my paints inside drawer and I want to be able to see them from above and recognize what has been opened.

The Tamiya paints have a jar lid in the color of the paint.  And so do the Gunze Sangyo paint on the right.  Open jars get a black marker O around the rim to signify an open jar.  Some paints that have a special purpose get a sticker with extra data.  Gunze Sangyo paint in number 302 is the paint I use when I do flocking, either as a base color or as a touch up color.  It's also the same color as Imex and Revell US Army WWII troops and Korean War troops.  So I use it when other figures are added to those so they look uniform.  That's important because most of my armies are composed of units of troops of a single color.