Do your paints dry up because the lids don’t close properly? Are you sick of using something sharp to pick out all the dried up crud? Well in today’s quick video ToP Tip I show you a super fast way to clear out the gunk [1] in a matter of seconds.

I love Citadel paints, I love the enormous range of colours, I love how they’re easy to work with and cover well and most of all I love how easy it is to get the colours I need, they’re always in stock in a multiple of places. What I don’t like are the lids clogging up.
I don’t know how to stop the clogging, without switching to dropper bottles [2], but this video ToP Tip will at least give you an easy way to manage the problem.
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[1] Is there a proper name for a secreted build up of paint? I want to say Smeg.
[2] I refuse to waste hobby time decanting paint into dropper bottles, I would much rather be painting models.
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Try leaving the removed lids in a bowl of hot water to soften the plastic before trying to break your thumbs apart.
It’s official. Garfy has thumbs of steel. I tried this and couldn’t get the lids to turn inside out.
This is awesome. What a great tip. So simple! But we’ll effective thanks for sharing
Ah, tremendously helpful, my kid has a set of paints that were getting quite gnarly, and sticking sharp bits down the edge to clean it was not working.
Thanks so much for posting this!
Thank you so much, never realized you could take the entire lid off