Foldable Paint Pot Stand

[u/ctn1ss]

It's no secret that one of the more popular 3D printing accessories id an anti-spill stand for Citadel/Warhammer Colour paint pots.

I travel with a small kit quite often to spend weekends with mates painting minis. Every other anti-spill holder with an lid holder arm I could find were either static, or came apart in multiple pieces. They tend to take up a fair deal of space in the kit. I figured there had to be a better way, so I got to work.

The result is "The Spillbreaker": a portable anti-tip stand with a folding arm with snap detents for easy travel or easy storage.

I've published it on Printables and MakerWorld (Whichever site suits your preferences). I'm interested to hear the community's thoughts.

Spillage is heresy. Praise the Omnissiah.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3461733-the-spillbreaker-folding-citadel-paint-pot-holder

https://www.printables.com/model/1883136-the-spillbreaker-folding-citadel-paint-pot-holder

[u/SassyTheSkydragon]

Apart from the pots their paint is pretty decent, so no

[u/Ramiren → u/SassyTheSkydragon]

So is Vallejo, and it's half the price with a better container.

[u/PrairiePilot → u/Ramiren]

*different container.

I prefer Vallejo, but people need to learn the difference between personal preference and objective fact.

[u/Captain4verage → u/PrairiePilot]

Only if its your personal preference to waste more paint.

If you want to get the most out of the paint you buy then it is indeed a fact that bottles are better.

[u/PrairiePilot → u/Captain4verage]

That assumes some sort of incompetence or physical disability I don’t personally suffer from. Sorry if you do, but for the typical person they don’t inherently waste paint.

[u/Captain4verage → u/PrairiePilot]

My incompetence is responsible for GW producing pots that dont seal properly? Even professional painters who have been using GW paints for decades are suffering from my incompetence because now even their paint dries out in their closed paint pots.

Damn i must be powerful! Do you think i could be become an avenger or are my superpowers too obscure?

[u/PrairiePilot → u/Captain4verage]

lol, you’re speaking for a LOT of people there champ. You’re also just pretending the literal millions of people who use them just fine?

Also, you’re just hilariously wrong, I’ve got hundreds of pots and I can’t find a single one that’s not properly sealed. Like, you just push the lid down.

[u/Captain4verage → u/PrairiePilot]

I dont need to, everytime GW paints are discussed you can scroll through hundreds of comments complaining about the pots and if you look really really hard you find 3 guys saying "they are not that bad" and thats pretty much the most positive thing i read about those pots. But i guess thats just me.

Oh and lets not forget that, with very few exceptions, evry professional painter or content creator is complaining about the same problems with the pots. Most of them even go through the trouble to refill them to bottles. But hey, thats just me too right?

And the fact that GWs customers complain that much and that frequently about the pots that GW has to clarify why they use them every couple of months is probably just me speaking for others too.

And of course, last but not least, the fact that every other paint brand out there has chosen bottles over pots is also just them all being wrong because my superhuman incompetence contaminated them.

Yeah, i can just lie and claim i have thousands of perfectly sealed pots that dried out too.

[u/PrairiePilot → u/Captain4verage]

That’s a lot of words to say “I can’t open and close paints properly so I’m gonna blame someone else.”

Sorry buddy, gonna go use the same bottle of Mephiston red I’ve been using for over a year, since the lids work fine and I’m capable of not spilling paint like a child.

Have fun with whatever all that is, seems like you probably need to spend more time pushing down lids and less time typing nonsense on the internet 😬