Howdy all. It's been an odd week here. Back at work. Not super happy about it. Trying to get the hobby room back into workable condition, and generally getting back into the swing of things. Anyway. One thing I've been doing is transferring paint from old GW pots to new, shiny Vallejo dropper bottles. Why? Well, because this:
This dried up crusty crap doesn't happen with Vallejo bottles (at least, I've ever seen it.)
So, I've been rather laboriously decanting paint for the past few evenings. It really brought it home what a bunch of bumholes GW are. Consider this pic:
The sybarite green and the Iosan green are brand-new-never-opened paints. The sybarite green is by far the more expensive bottle...
Also, I dunno if anybody else has noticed, but over every iteration of GW paint pots it has gotten harder to actually get the paint out (I mean, as much of the paint as possible.) and/or they contain less. The original cylinders were fine, but you'd never get the last drop out due to the height. The hex pots contained less and dried out quicker due to the ill fitting hinge. The screw tops were a frickin nightmare and dried their lids on within months, and now the wee bullet pots are the smallest ever aaaand while the original ones (dheneb stone, devlan mud) could have their tops unscrewed for easy access to all the paint under the rim, the newest ones (sybarite green etc) are not screw top and you need to prise the feckers off with a knife.
It's almost like GW want to give you as little paint as possible for your money, whilst making it as hard as possible for you to actually use that paint before it dries up and you need to buy a new one...
On the plus side, the plastic labels on the new GW pots peel off really nicely for sticking onto the Vallejo bottle
