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Painting on the Go


Before my stroke, my work used to involve a lot of travel.



As you can imagine during my recovery I've been medically grounded and just been working from home and the local office.

Part of my stroke recovery was to stop drinking alcohol; not that my beer a week was a huge amount to start with, and also stopped trying to eat food that I haven't prepared myself to limit the amount of sodium I intake per day.

That also means that on any future business trip I'll not be hanging out with my team members at the pub for very long once we close out the day.  

I had been thinking of what I can do now to occupy my time in the hotel room besides flipping through the TV.

The hardest part about going away on trips is missing my family, and of course my bucket O'paints.

I am leaving for a business trip tomorrow and wanted to continue to paint my KD:M starting survivors.  Tough to do from across the country.  

I was thinking about how I could safely transport some of my gear with me and thought about those converted Altoid tins that some water colorists use to hold a selection of paints when they go out to paint landscapes.

My requirements were that it needed to be small and compact and could take some paint and protect precious miniatures from Air Travel.  

Here is what I came up with after digging around the house for a bit.

Paint and Miniature Transport

Pelican 1120 Case - Donated to me by my good buddy.




In the left hand side of the case I plucked space to hold paint.  On this trip I'm going be painting skin tones onto my KD:M miniatures.  I've brought several triads of colour, thinner medium and a Reikland Fleshshade from GW.  On the right hand side I've made little pockets to carry 28mm miniatures.  The middle cross divider is currently attached but I think could be easily removed to accommodate a larger model.  Depending on how this test trip goes I may try to magnetize some spots in the case to better secure the miniatures.  I think I would always bring this case as Carry-on but as its a Pelican case it probably would survive being checked.  I don't know if I would survive though, if it were lost as luggage.

The Vallejo paints just barely fit making the lid a very tight squeeze to shut.  Might have to create a basics colour set of P3 or citadel paint pots later.  Time will tell I guess!

Palette

In my pantry I found two suitable tins that could be up-cycled as a palette.

Simpkins Travel Sweets

Herbal Candy Tin from Chinatown

And so I did!


Am I sponge worthy?

Inside I just wadded up some paper towel.  I'll end up getting a sponge in the future, and then cut some semi circular pieces of parchment paper.  The Purple tin fits inside the Mulled Wine tin so I could bring both or just end up taking the small one if space is a concern.

All Dressed Up and Ready to go!

I'll keep you posted on how usable this setup is!

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