What do you do with your old paint jars?

[Spatula]

I'm done using up grey paint from two of my tamiya paint jars. They about 1/2 ounce type bottles and I'm wondering if I should keep them for mixing paint and stuff or just chuck em. What do you do with your empty paint bottles?

Edited October 24, 2005 by Spatula

[big F]

I'm done using up grey paint from two of my tamiya paint jars.  They about 1/2 ounce type bottles and I'm wondering if I should keep them for mixing paint and stuff or just chuck em.  What do you do with your empty paint bottles?

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I alway keep them. Wash em out and use them for mixed paints and custom colours.

[Sar]

I alway keep them. Wash em out and use them for mixed paints and custom colours.

339361[/snapback]

I clean out and keep my Tamiya acrylic jars as much to keep the corresponding thinned paints in. I tend to thin to about 50% with IPA before airbrushing, and they have those nice coloured caps and everything... ;-)

(Obviously it helps to put a dab of white paint or something on them so you can tell which ones are thinned.)

[kanata67]

store small screws and parts in them. A few for mixing paint is good but when you have lots use 'em for storage.

[broadshore]

Mostly for mixing large amounts of paint for the airbrush or just put smaller parts into for safe keeping.

[VF-19]

If you use a Badger airbrush with siphon feed, the jars will fit to the siphoning lid exactly. Saves me a ton of cash. I just buy the paint, thin it, and mark it for airbrushing use (usually an A/B somewhere on the jar), to sort it out from the rest of the paint.