Summut I was gifted today…

[Brother Meredith]

Grateful to one of the GROGMeet attendees for gifting me these pristine boxes of paints today!!

 

[Michael Stockin]

Wow, they are proper neat.

 

[ManicMan]

not so much about the paints inside but.. those boxes are almost near mint! just minor damage.. wow.

 

[Eric]

Wow, if any of the paints need some additional moisture just call - I'm drooling excessively now! What a treat! Excellent.

 

[Gobbit Snotrag]

These are superb! For me, Christmas 1987: marking the move from enamels. I still have my tub of enchanted blue. Hard as stone but can't throw it out!

A skull white from a few years later has miraculously revived itself and is my current active white paint.

My friend got the Monster set - that had the exciting colours (and a useful brown if I'm not getting mixed up). Do you have a bilious green or [12 year old sniggers] titilating pink?

 

[Brother Meredith]

The paint pots (aside from Skull White) are all sealed… Some liquid sloshing around in them still, so hopeful can revive them!

 

[Brother Meredith]

Have mentioned on here before that had nearly all the old range still on boxes before the purge… so this was a mega nostalgia rush for me too!

 

[BootsAlmighty]

Shame you can’t post the aroma of the paints. That would be pure time travel

 

[The Serene Badger]

That's a nice gift, I remember those! Clearing out my mum's attic for her move in early 2025 I threw out all my old paints as they were all rock solid. But I did keep a sealed hex pot of goblin green.

 

[dieselmonkey]

Nice gift! I'd be tempted to leave the pots sealed tbh, even with the rosiest of rose tinted spectacles on, paints have improved massively in the last 40 years. Some of those seemed to have so little pigment in it was like painting with dishwater!