Perhaps appropriate to Easter weekend, there’s some revival and reorganization going on on my wargaming bench this weekend. I’ve owned a pair of MDF paint bottle racks from the now-defunct Impudent Mortal, the first since 2014 and the second since early 2016, but paint collections expand over time and I outgrew those storage solutions a while ago, leading to an increasing clutter of paint jars along the back corners of my bench. The two IM racks are still going strong and will head off to someone elses’ bench fairly soon.

A few weeks ago I finally put an order in to the always-reliable Warbases for, among other things, a quartet of their Vallejo Paint Bottle Rack units. They’re individually smaller than my existing IM racks (45 bottles vs 66) but I can stack two of the Warbases units vertically in the same footprint and win storage space that way.

By way of a mini-review, the Warbases Vallejo Paint Bottle Racks are nice simple boxes, with four flat sides and the interior of two sheets with holes, the back holes smaller than the front. Dropper bottles will fit either upside down or upright, and because the racks are simple boxes they can stack and butt against each other. Assembly was a few minutes per box with white glue.

The Dropper Bottle ‘Test Tube Rack’ is a nice little piece of work that arrived on three MDF sheets, about ten pieces all told. Took a couple of minutes to fiddle together with white glue; there’s an instruction PDF on the Warbases website that has some useful guidance. I sprayed mine white (which took several coats, MDF is thirsty) then did a quick satin varnish coat for a finished look.

The four big bottle racks are out on the patio being spray primed white to help keep my bench as bright as possible, so this is probably the last photograph of the bench in it’s current configuration ever to be published!