Paints
These are some of my paints. I use mainly Reaper Pro paints and Master paints, Vallejo game color, some GW paints and I am starting to use acrylic tube paints.
In the first picture you have examples of the pot and dropper bottle paints. I am trying to switch all my paints over to dropper bottles. After experience the dropper bottles will get dried paint up in the cap that even if you try to keep it clean will drop in to the paint this then breaks up into smaller particles making your paint grittier over time.
The paint will keep fresher in the dropper bottles. Since I really like the Reaper pro paint line I have moved most of them into dropper bottles and printed out name tags for quick identification and taped it on works great.
The reaper Pro paints come with a pewter skull and helps the paint get shaken up when you shake it. I have saved quit a few of them and put them in my Vallejo bottles to help when shaking the paint up. Vallejo bottles are renowned for needing allot of shaking and this helps a bit.
I have tried using bbs as replacements for the skulls but I recommend against it since recently noticing that the bbs were leaking into the color.
In the bottom pic I am showing 2 Tube colors Winsor an Newton. Acrylic paint comes out of the tube as a thick paste. Needs allot of diluting with extender to work well.
To get the paint to the right consistency I use a paintpot put some tube paint in it, then I add a paint shaker like the reaper skulls you get in your reaper paints. I pour some distilled water into it at least twice the amount of the tube paint, close the lid and shake for a at least a minute or two. When it is nicely stirred pour it into a dropper bottle the price per bottle will come out to less than a $1 pretty good it you use allot of paint.
What I find an absolute must is Titanium white, Parchment white, Cadmium Red Deep brilliant, Brilliant yellow, Hookers Green by Liquitex tube colors.
I have just started using these paints with my other paints and find them very good. I recommend Titanium white allot, using it to mix with other colors for highlighting gives them a new luster and better shine to the highlight just remember to water them down with the extender well. As you use them you learn how much you need extender is needed in it.
I am going to try some more colors and will update as I learn more about these paints here.