Christmas Wagon

Many years ago, I got this Christmas wagon, from the dollar store.  It's pretty good but I always have a shortage of horses and wagon wheels.  So that's what I got it for.

I got about ten of them and I have been waiting to figure out how to cut off the wagon and riders.  It is a very hard and somewhat brittle resin.

I finally figured out a way to clamp it down and using a new hacksaw blade I cut it off.

1/72nd scale figure for size comparison.  I may cut the base in half and use the horses for a team to tow heavy artillery.  Then use the wagon remains for some other project.
 

Paint Jars

Funnel in glass bottle.

Another set of funnels I picked up at the dollar store.

It was a little too big but I trimmed it some and now it fits.

It is best not to seal the funnel so that air can escape as paint goes in.These little jars have a nice screw top lid so the paint stays fresh. I have had it last over a month, but usually I store such small amounts that I use it all up in one session. 

I write the color and purpose of the paint on blue tape, then wrap it around the bottle.  This is Rust-Oleum Satin (finish sort of between gloss and flat), Moss Green.  I use it to sort of color match my 60mm Tim Mee figures.  It is not exact, but then I have those figures in many shades of green.  This one is close enough so I use it on robot and other things that go with those Tim Mee figures.
 

Funnels

How to put spray paint into a jar.  These boards block the jar into place.

I use these little syrup jars but any small jar would work.  I like a narrow neck, deep jar because it is less likely to spill much.

This is the specific funnel I got.

It was a set of three funnels, the smallest one works for this project.

Funnels that I used are the smallest one.
 

Spray Paint Technique

I get food handling gloves at Sams Club.

They are very cheap and usually one size fits all.  I have big hands but they work okay for me.

When we go to a local restaurant chain, Cracker Barrel, I often get their pancakes, which come with little syrup bottles.  They come home with me and after getting run through the dishwasher, they are clean and fresh.  I used to scrape off the label but it is more trouble than it is worth.

Many of the spray paints I use don't have a bottle paint version.

So using a very inexpensive funnel from Dollar General I decant the spray paint into the syrup bottles while wearing the food service gloves.

I use a couple pieces of scrap lumber to hold the bottle and put the very tiny funnel in the jar mouth.

Then using the hand with the glove on it, I spray the paint into the funnel.

I spray along the side of the funnel and allow the paint to flow into the jar.  I don't spray in the center because the propellant has to vent someplace and it splashes if I spray it directly into the center of the funnel.

Here you can see it flowing along the inside of the bottle.