The silvery Tay and some 15mm/18mm units to paint

 

A non-gaming post. Today, to pick up some musical stuff, I was in Dundee. So I paused on riverside for a few minutes for a couple of pictures of the dear old silvery Tay. Not great pictures, but inspired by William McGonnagall.

        Beautiful silvery Tay, ...

        Along each side of your waters, to Perth all the way;  

This is looking south east at the rail bridge. The old foundations of the previous railbridge are just visible above the water line. 

And a view south west of the road bridge.  

And some gaming stuff. Here are pictures of a couple of Napoleonic units I must get back to painting. The French Light Infantry are CGM figures, the green are AB Miniatures Dutch Jaeger.  I was thinking about sort-of participating in the Analogue Painting Challenge that many others do at this time of year, just to give a focus and a bit of impetus to painting more. 

More later ... 

Vallejo paints and new nozzles on dropper bottles

Just an update, following on from the last post.

After I had identified all the bottles with split nozzles, I wrote to Vallejo asking if I could buy new nozzles. The kind people at Vallejo sent me replacements. 

And so last week, it was a case of out with the old ... 

And in with the new.   

So now I can shake away to my heart's content and there will be no spill.  

I think it would be good if Vallejo would sell empty bottles. Though the market make be limited, I'm sure some other painters / gamers would appreciate being able to buy spares. 

Finally, in gratitude and appreciation to Vallejo for their kindness, I made a donation to charity on their behalf.  

Vallejo Paints and split nozzles on dropper bottles

Not posted in a while, so I'll have to start posting more.  Not sure if anyone else has experienced this. 

And this is not really a complaint, but just a moan. I've had a wee problem over the years with the nozzles on Vallejo paints being split. I don't think they've split while I have owned them, and as far as I know, the paint bottles have arrived with split nozzles. 

When I pick up a bottle and give it a shake the paint comes out of the split and into the cap. It's just a bit of a mess; an annoying mess.  

Here are some pictures. Hopefully you can see the extent of the split. 

It's not too many in the grand scheme of things, but I now have 27 with spilt nozzles. So I have moved these paints out to a separate box.  

Here are all of my Vallejo paints, some 450 and more.  I missed a few from this picture.    

I'd like to replace the nozzles.  Does anyone know where to get them? 

I know I can buy complete dropper bottles, and decant the Vallejo paint into those bottles. But it seems a shame to get new bottles instead of just being able to replace the nozzles. 

I'll try to get back to painting and posting soon.