Paint Carrousel prices?

[Argonor]

How much should I be prepared/willing to spend on a paint carrousel organizer?

And is there a European vendor available? 

[Orctrader]

Don't use a carousel myself but I'm pretty sure this UK store ships to Europe.

LINK

[Hammers]

Personally I prefer Lurch's contraptions and I will order one once we 've moved house. (Going to get me my own gaming attic!)

[Argonor]

Thanks... but how come they are so expensive over here..??

Noble Knight Games list normal retail as $40... that makes £44.25 about twice as expensive in GB/Europe...

[Argonor]

I've been pondering about Lurch's model, too, but space is an issue... well, maybe I should ponder a bit more on this...

[keeper]

I got mine form here, but it is the same price as the one linked to by Orctrader, and they also ship to Europe.

I should say, though, that I use mine for storing paint which I'm not currently using, but then I don't have a fixed space I paint in, but rather I use a GW paintstation which is kept up high (well away from little fingers) and only brought down once those little fingers are safely in bed.

[Svennn]

I made my own.

Keeper - is that the Tinsley of Viaduct fame??

[keeper]

I made my own.

Keeper - is that the Tinsley of Viaduct fame??

It was indeed, until the dastardly Prussian Herr E. On destroyed them with a case load of dynamite, recently

How did you make your make your own carousel?

[vikotnik]

My local miniature shop has some of them in stock.
I will be there next week anyway, so I could take a look at how much they would be. I may well be that they are discounted, because they sit in the same shelf for quite some time now.
I could buy them for You and send them over.
Postage from Germany to Denmark should not be too expensive, so perhaps it might be worth a try.

[Argonor]

vikotnik, that would be nice.

Just got an answer from Noble Knight Games that they do ship to Europe, but postage for one would be $42 (still cheaper than buying it in Europe, BEFORE P&P is added, though). But then there's the risk of getting burned by customs... 

[Aaron]

I had one of the Vatican Enterprises carosels for several years. It held up well, but was not the most efficient in terms of time (the bottle I needed was always on the other side) and space. When my son started walking I traded it in for a closing case from Silicon Dragons http://minipaints.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=2&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=168&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2.

Although my case has some problems, he acknowledged them up front and gave it to me for free (now THAT is good customer service!). I find the arrangement much easier to use and it takes up less storage space in addition to being very portable.

[Argonor]

Those are for droppers only, right? I can see the purpose of such a case, especially if you put your paints aside between sessions, but space would prohibit my use of it (and I could get 2 80-pot carrousels for the same price).

[Mindenbrush]

I purchased 2 of the Paintier 80's from VVV and find them very useful as they do not take up a lot of space. I store all my Foundry paints on them. I also have 2 of the 80 dripper bottle stands from Lurch which are excellent BUT I should have bought the 100 bottle models with my ever increasing paint pile.

[keeper]

(and I could get 2 80-pot carrousels for the same price).

Since I use mine for storage, I actually have closer to 160 pots of paint, of all sizes, on my carousel.  Because once you've filled the outer circle on one level, that forms a nice wall for some more paints to be stored behind - and since the inner row of paints are a little higher on my Painter 80 (as the outer holes for paints are recessed a little) you can still see what colour the inner paint pots are.

Sorry, that is probably of no interest to anyone else - except to say that I use my painter80 for more than 80 paints.

I'll stop rambling now, and go back to work!

[Argonor]

Does VVV have a website?