7 SUPER CHEAP Tools for PRO Hobbyists
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"Pro tip: Mugs are free if you steal them."
The Ordo Hereticus cup theft task force would like a word with you.....
Acquired you mean 😉
So is Warhammer 🗣️‼️
Pro tip let people know that if they break the handle on their mugs Don't throw them out give them to you 😁 ( don't steal them from your mum "unless she lets you")
Word..man..word
"Super Easy. Barely an Inconveniece." I, too, am a fan of Pitch Meeting.
my secret tool is a silicon rubber icetray: perfect size to fit in contrast and washes to stop them from toppling over and can be used as an easy-clean palette too!
...This is pure genius ! Imma get one right now, thx for the tip !
I use a cheapo dollar store popits fidget square. So perfect and easy I forget I have a wet pallette sometimes
I currently use a normal palette wrapped in foil. I might have to look into that.
@stephenbutler9432 these are great because when the wash, etc dries you pop it out and the silicon well is ready for next use 🥳
That's a great idea
"i paint 10 hours a day" if anyone ever asks why you are so good, this is the answer. that is really impressive
It’s incredible honestly! I’m lucky if I paint for 30 mins a day
That stormtrooper has seem some things
Death by a thousand paper cuts/ pins.
Sticky notes
Dropped something hard to see on your desk? Smack a sticky note around til you pick it up
Got a small job you keep needing to do on a mini but keep forgetting? Sticky note
Need a quick pallet for something thick? Sticky note
Need a sticky note? Sticky note
Test your freehand? Sticky note! Check your glue? Sticky note!
I approve of all the theft
Instead of using a hairdryer i use the air that comes out of my airbrush
re: finding stuff thats hard to see, try using a flashlight (like the one on your phone) and angle it so stuff casts shadow. Saves me ass on a daily basis
Jay, your mother wants her rooster mug back, that was a gift from your great aunt julie!
One thing I have done is mount the hairdryer to the wall. I have it plugged into a foot pedal so I can use both hands and I'll I have to do is press it with my foot to turn it on.
Genius! I was considering a hand dryer like you get in a public bathroom 😂
Makes you feel good as a modeller when you already have and use all these tools 😊
While not cheap(?) my biggest useful hobby product is a set (actually, two) of 1-2-3 Blocks or 'Machinists' blocks. They're heavy metal blocks which measure 1"x2"x3" and are used for aligning shop tools and machines. They're heavy and insanely useful for hobbying, particularly terrain building. Quickly able to measure 1", 2" or 3"...excellent for weighing down stuff or pinning stuff between them while drying (as they have 'perfect' 90-degree sides), etc. Want to make a ladder or walkway? Align your outside rods/dowels on the 1" width and done...want to measure each floor of a building to be identical...use the 3" side...etc. Want to glue some MDF together and ensure it's 90-degrees and straight, while drying? Use the blocks. You will find yourself using them constantly if you build a lot of terrain.
hmm.... I'd like to see that in action.
@@hawkthetraveler6344 youtuber called Offbeat Builds uses them extensively in alot of his videos, hes a pretty small channel but his videos are amazing. If you look up his "Scratch building Warhammer 40K Is Easier Than You Think
" or "Lore be Damned! Terminator Techmarine KITBASH for Warhammer 40K" with the videos he shows extenseive use of Machinists' blocks along with magnets that perfectly shows how to use them.
The old Warmachine/Hordes blister packs used to come with little sponge backing pads to keep the model from rattling around too much. I turned a couple of those into pincushions for my own hobby setup. It's one of those things I haven't thought about on my desk, but it sure puts in work for me.
If you want an even cheaper alternative to playing cards ask a Magic player friend for their bulk commons.
Or go grab the land cards
Oh yeah, they even have a free bin at my LGS!
@@nickrivas6429dont take lands from stores, the draft players need them
Why does this comment hurt my teeth?
Instead of a pin cushion I use a little magnetic pin cushion that can store a couple paper clips an old x-acto blade as well as a few pins. Thank you for sharing the cable management nest that gives me some new ideas. I also think I'm going to return to using mugs for my brushes. I tried fancier devices but truthfully, I hate them. They take up too much space and don't hold enough paint brushes.
Paintjob of asking a 36 Mortarion for day
Lovely passive aggressive behavior, chicks dig that
@@totalCoolerUsernamewhat are you on about?
It weirdly became a routine to put this comment before every time I go to the gym lol
@@alessandrococco301 I think he is saying that I am being passively angry and that small roosters like that behavior but I can't be sure
@@totalCoolerUsername were watching a nerd paint little men. No chicks within 100 miles of here
I use a paper piercer for my bottle unclogging needs. Has a handle like an x-acto, so i don't have to worry about keeping track of it like pins. And for pinning I use jewelry pins; they're around a dollar for a bag at the craft store, but they're uniformly sized and straight, unlike paper clips. No fuss model pinning.
Disposable brushes in the last jedi mug, seems appropriate 😀
The mugs and the sandpaper were mind opening tips! I have sandpaper in every single drawer in my hobby room
The amount of times I was expecting him to say you "know what else is awesome our patron" the tease
I saw the tattoo wash bottle on your desk. Thought that was genius!!! Figured that’s what you used it for. Bought one shortly after!! Good list!! That’s gents!! Fantastic as always!!!
Videos like these that just make my hobbying that much more enjoyable and easier to partake in feel kinda rare so gems like these are always amazing! Just the smallest things that whittle down the wasted hobby time that every now and them make me think "I'm so glad I got that". Like I've always had the pin cushion so I didn't even think about how annoying it would be to struggle finding a needle or pin!
I'm an early hobbyist and want my stuff compact and quickly accessible for quick jobbies when inspiration strikes. Been rubberbanding the main tools I use together for different tasks (snippers/sandstick/razor for building from kits, 3 sized paint brushes/washcup/painttray for painting.
The most useful and free of charge tool I’ve discovered recently is the notes section on my phone. I use it to dump ideas for my next hobby project, paint schemes, to do lists etc.
"I change my paint water every half hour" - Jay
I think its been a week and two very different models since I last changed mine. :S
I loved this video!
For me, my favorite little hobby gadget I have *is* actually the little sectioned out plastic Jewlery boxes.
I have a situation where I only get scraps of time, and my little hobby workshop needs to be easy to take down and put back up again.
So when building minis I like to part them out, and put each mini's bits in a section of the box. Makes it really easy to get back into what I was doing when my 20 Ork Boyz's parts are nice and organized into their own separate sections!
Canadian here I love using Pill bottles the yellowy green ones with the indented lids, they make great painting handles come in all sizes some bases even fit so well they don't need any blue tack to stay but even if they are not a perfect fit a little tack and your good add some weight if your worried about them tipping and they come in so many sizes they fit so many different bases and also the sized make them easier to hold in your hand . Also I recently found those little condiment cups and tried them out and have been loving them, one of the first uses I had for one was to pour in some snow basing material and add a little pink paint and then just started stirring and stirring and made my own cherry blossom flock with it and just keep that in the cup and it is great.
My little add on is toothpicks, very useful i use them for moving glue around to using for like the lines on bloodbowl pitch for the bases super underrated
It was such a pleasure to watch this. Your positive energy is just what I needed today!
For the Superglue Bottles getting stuck closed, here's a tip:
Leave the Bottle standing around open for about 10-20 minutes before closing it.
The Bottle's own lid has a bit of a "spike" on the inside at the top that opens up the then dried up residue of superglue.
I’ve kept all the grey sponges that came in my old blister packs. Keep one beside me for cleaning my brushes. Giggle in the water a wipe on the sponge. It’s cleans the brushes so fast and you can use with brush soap and or conditioner.
omg I love these tool tip videos! please make more! lol. I'm always down for new little tools or hacks that make hobbying just a little more fun or easier
I got a little hand vaccum. My mom bought one for cleaning crums on the kitchen table. I asked for the same one and I use it to clean my space after sanding, basing or anytime i have a minute to clean my desk.
Just ordered two underdesk cable meshes.
Appreciate the recommendation. My mini journey just started and this stuff is the kinda stuff that keep you from getting overwhelmed. If these are cheap, what's the next level set of recommendation?
In place of a pin cushion filled with pins, I suggest a single paper clip. Just unbend one piece by 45 degrees so that it's easy to insert into a paint container and you're good to go. It's big enough to see on your desktop but small enough to never be in the way and you'll never hurt yourself stepping on it.
Great video Jay!
I use a pop fidget toy as a speed paint pallet. It's great because when the paints dry you can just pop the paint out.
I do fret saw work. I use strips of sand paper in a binder clip then that clip placed on a Harbor Freight magnet strip I attached underneath my face vice.
A little pack of empty bottles from the trial and travel section are useful for mixing custom colours and keeping clean water nearby
Great video. These are the tips that nobody thinks to share but come from hours and hours of hobbying over many years. The hairdryer hammock is amazing!
Sounds like the bigger tip here is organizing, and having everything with in arms reach. I glad you found a system that works for you. I bought a bunch of the hobby zone modular workshop stuff. The modules in that are about 6x6x 12 inches and they have magnets so you can snap fit them together. I got draws for bits, tool holders and chubby for sanding sticks, even a display self with plexi covering. It was not cheap and does not store every thing I need it was a worth while investment.
I paint 10hours a month now, if i am lucky. What a great channel this is for keeping me positive about the hobby even when i wish i could get more involved in the hobby.
Lighter, for cleaning my glue needle, when a normal needle won't clear it.
A little bit of fire and it's clear.
A candle for stretching out sprue's to long tin wires, cut off the thickness you need and...
Yes, plastic wires, that's what you then get, perfect for thin details.
Hey Jay. Been watching you a while and this is the first time I have commented. Love your channel. Love your humor. Love 40k/AOS and painting minis. Duces.
Great video! Can you talk about your lighting set up? What do you cover them with? Preferred bulbs?
For the pin needs look up an air brush cleaning kit, there is a needle that has a growing size for nozzles, but can have a cap screwed on.
This is the most realistic organization video for the hobby/painter world I've ever seen, well done.
Nice finally some inside knowlege
You are WAY too excited about the hair dryer and under desk storage. Love the videos.
Use windowlene as airbrush thinner/cleaner
For me, I think the playing card tip is the best in the mix! Going to add that to my desk
Good tips and tools.
Local Asian market sells these mini mochi snacks. The box holds them in squares that are great for holding bits.
"I am so bad at owning sandpaper"... same Jay... same... I would just randomly see cut up sandpaper in my room
Banger suggestions. Stuff easily overlooked, all good suggestions.
I use Bottle corks, snipped paper clips and hot glue as small cheap paint handles for squads of minis, I like to paint all my marines in sub assemblies, so I use like 5 corks per model, I don't like using shades, washes etc. so I manually paint all my shadows and highlights, buying a bag of like 1kg worth of bottle corks is perfect compared to using $60+ hobby paint handles, also easy to remove hot glue from the model once done and doesn't leave putty all of the model where it's been stuck
I use 2 water pots for 2 stage cleaning. 1 to get the most off, then the second to clean off the brush feom the first.
My 3 tips.
1. Nail clippers that look like pliers. They have a long, curved, pointy tip which is perfect for cutting bits of a sprew or cleaning up the nibs and flash.
2. T-7000 (black) or CP-0001 (transparent) glue. It's advertised as shoe glue but they also use it to glue a screen to a mobile phone. It's rubbery so models are more bump resistant. It's sticky but has a long drying time so you can position several bits at the same time. It doesn't melt plastic so you can twist off a bit and try again without breaking it.
3. A studio light that hangs over the desk. It's obvious but I never see it mentioned.
I love your Layers of organisation! Like disposable brushes& pipets (stuff you throw away) in the 'last jedi'-mug, because that's also trash! 😂❤ keep your garbage in your garbage😅🤣🤣🤣
Squirty bottles for everything. Alcohol and clean water for the airbrush and paint brushes. Even empty ones if you need a controlled blast of air.
I love the mini 3 drawer organizers from Walmart. Use those for bits. One drawer per army I own works well.
In reference to the cards, if you play any tcg or ccg there will likely be some kind of promo card or advertisement card in the pack. Those are also very useful (I play mtg and I use the weird Arena ad card that seems to come in every pack now.)
I use the mugs for paint water, but I have old jars for brushes!
The two things that helped me improve efficiency were a whole truckload of Ikea bins, and a labeler. The bins are to help granulate my nonsense, the labeler is there to help me remember where I put stuff. If there's a bin and a label, fewer things 'live' on my painting desk.
Oh my god, I wondered for so long what that little spray bottle was called. Thanks!
For the pin, you could also have a safety pin or brooch on hand
Rather than mugs, there's a cheap paintbrush organizer that Dollar Tree sells that works really well
Why have I never thought to organise my brushes...
I never thought of it because I don't have that many brushes.
It's a good idea though.
This isn’t for painting technically, but I got myself a mini storage container with 9 slots and I store my bits in it. The little drawers are clear plastic and can be pulled out instead of moving around the entire container.
“I touch it and use it 500 times a day!” Me too Jay, Me too! 😅😅
In terms of cheap stuff I've got a 20 pack of paper thin emery boards at the Dollar Store. They're really nice since you can just tear them into smaller pieces if need be.
Can't afford and don't have the space for a bottle compressor for the airbrush. So I have one of those always on box compressors. So, I hung it from the bottom of the desk in a cheap mesh bag and it can els out nearly all the noise from vibration. Plus keeps all the cables away from the floor. 50 cents hobby hack. Also I wash my minis in sandwich ziploc baggies of IPA now and plop them in the ultrasonic which is now full of water and the difference in price and mess is incredible.
If you need any motivation to get all the bits off the sprues, try making sprue bricks. I had a lot of sprue laying around and an old 3rd edition Lictor, and I wanted him to be camoflaging. So I trimmed all the sprues down to about the same size, and built a wall out of sprue bricks at about chest height for my Lictor, with some even smaller sprue chunks laid next to the wall like destroyed wall chunks. I cleared up some space in my buckets, and I made most of my lictor's paint scheme a very simple grey.
pins/sewing needles are also good for antennas, narrow enough to look too scale, hard enough not to bend if someone knocks the mini over
not sure how often it would apply to 40k, but i use it a lot on battletech minis, for both antennas and machinegun barrels
tho you do need some quality clippers/snips to cut them, my old cheap hobby clippers are full of dents because of them
Spray tin lids. They double up as little pots to hold small things and if you turn them upside down and stick some tape on them they can become a painting handle for larger models 😁
I imagine Jay chasing away farts with his quick draw blow dryer
"100% covered in garbage" describes my workbench most of the time.
you could probably use playing cards in place of plasticard etc if needed.
nice that you put the disposable, shit brushes in The Last Jedi mug. Fitting.
Bitz organizing sounds like a great video idea and will help you knock it out. I use a tackle box and a little compartmented storage box from Walmart and I feel like I'm still unorganized.
The irony of the disposable brushes in the TLJ mug.
I love this guy
Man those condiment cups are gonna change my bits game
My biggest is cheap kids bubbles pots. They are perfect little painting handles.
Do you use normal or distilled/cleaned water?
As for small disposable storage space I like to use the plastic inlays of e.g. cookie or other (mostly) sweets/candy boxes.
Those are plastic, often water proof (but beware, sometimes there are holes), transparent and have often various sizes for different tasks like an additional water dish to clean same color brushes or mix gooey stuff or simply temporary store small stuff.
And regarding the net for your hairdryer - ever thought about a small cabinet on wheels for under your desk?
Playing cards work great as shims too. Not too useful for minis, but if you need to make microadjustments in some piece of furniture (like a pool table) to get it level, playing cards are your friend.
Knitting lights and glasses. Spent I think $40 US combined on a flexible light that goes around my neck and a headlamp with multiple magnifications. Buying those with a 'hobby' or 'painters' label would have been x2 or x3 that price.
I swear by metal beer bottle caps as small palettes/mixing trays. And of course constant supply has to be taken care of …😂
I've been using a toothbrush holder to organize my brushes 😂 it has four different slots so it lets me separate my brushes all in the same container
jay youre the goat! ive also been wondering how youre sitting or if youre on your knees, ive noticed youre at a nice shoulder rest position. and if youre on your knees how are you resting? do you have these nifty knee pads or something. i know this might sound silly but im sure as a pro painter you can understand haha. thank you! peace n love.
Playing cards....tsk tsk tsk....dog card facts! Loved those videos with the stupid card dog facts. Bahahah.
Good Ideas!
Instead of straight pins I use A coil of soldering wire
Usually getting up and changing my water is a good way to stretch my legs and back. But then you paint waaaay more than I do, so your but is tough than mine!
I keep a roll of wax paper instead of using playing cards. I don't do any resin work however, so I don't know how well wax paper would work for that
How do you keep all those cups organized so you don't lose anything?
Sororitas mentioned!!! Sororitas are the best!
This video made me so happy! Now I want the top 10, top 50, and top 100 🤣
12:40 was the perfect opportunity for: "...and Han shot first."
cigarette filters are very cheap, come in varying sizes, can be cut to size, and are lightweight. Very useful for helping prop and pose things.
"Keep a little prick within an arms reach" he said, got it, that is why I'm subscribed to this channel lmaoo
I use a Philadelphia cream cheese container as a water cup and use the lid as a wet pallet
Small Chinese soup plastic containers. Just like your little plastic cups but a bit bigger to hold slightly larger things. Just wash them out the next time you order egg drop soup
My little useful tool is Gundam fine tip panel liner markers, make pupils and eyebrows a breeze.