New paint rack by Miniature Scenery

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A number of years ago to neaten up my painting area I purchased a number of paint racks from the Miniature Scenery company (2 x 'Paint Rack' and 2 x 'Corner Paint Rack').  The paint racks can handle most paint pots including the standard Citadel pots and dropper style bottles.  The racks are designed to clip together so you can chain a number together.  I got a large piece of 3mm ply which I reinforced with batons and bolted the rack onto this so I could easily move all my paints (mainly off the dinning table when guests were coming around) in one go.  It's a good system that has worked for many years.

In more recent years I have converted over to Vallejo paints.  As the paint racks were designed for a wide range of paint pots when using the Vallejo/Army painter dropper bottles there is quite a bit of wasted space on the rack.  Then Miniature Scenery came out with their new paint rack, the 'Dropper Bottle Rack'.  The older Paint Rack type stores 33 paints, the Dropper Bottle rack can store 76 paints in the same space.  Also the dropper bottles can be stored either cap up or cap down for ease of spotting colours.  The only downside is that there is no paint brush storage like the 'Paint Rack' type has.  However I’m think of fixing that with a quick drill session.

The paint rack is the normal laser cut mdf flat pack in which you punch out the pieces and glue together with PVA glue.  Nothing hard especially if you are happy to slather the glue on and get it constructed in one sitting.  Just make sure you have things square and leave everything for a day for the glue to fully set.