A few weeks back whilst getting ready to fetch my mother-in-law aka ‘The Battleaxe’, I was in a right mood, an undetermined wait at the airport (last time it was almost 5 hours), plus spending another week with the dear, was not a pleasing prospect.

In any case my whinge was, loosing time painting one of my 1/72 scale and figure builds. The wife (very fed up) asked what I wanted to take with and I promptly set out my needs / items. She took a look at the goods and marched off, later she produced a plastic ‘Cadbury Fingers’ box, upon opening it everything was neatly packed and accounted for, even a cloth, some pegs and a clamp to hold the project for painting.

I now refer to ‘it’ as my Mobile Paint box. Knowing that I am not the only one to have problems moving small amounts of painting requirements, your opinions?

I need a Mobile Paint box to I've got the same problem when I go to the parents of my girlfriend.
Thats a good solution,
Thank you're wife for the tip

Looks like a good idea there........ The key seems to be Ease of clean-up or slow drying oils........

Briliant. Very handy.
So what does your "Mobile paint box" for your 1/16 scale look like?

See photo below. :-)

Have even been inspired to use an old footlocker / metal trunk for the 1:1 scale paints and rollers for the house renovations, will post a photo when it’s sorted and done!
Minus the clamp to hold the project unsurprisingly! :-)

I have a mobile box for when I go to work. There is usually a lot of down time so I threw 1 together myself a few months ago. It works great although I'm a 1/35 guy so I usually wind up bringing the model box as well. All in all it works awesome.



Z.

hehe better than listening to the whinge!
awesome idea and three cheers for her!!

It's always good to include the other Half.

I have been using fishing tacle boxs from a local super store. Top compartment is all paints and assembly tool and the bottom is usualy the larger tools and the current model / figure that I'm working on.

Great idea! Nice little paintshop there, Eric!
I only have one question. Where can I find a wife like that?

Women are good like that as they do that alot especially with their make up kit.

I stuff my paints and things into a tool box. I partly like it that way because its more musculine to look at a tool box than make up size box.