Wall Mountable Miniature Paint Storage Solution

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I decided that I needed a way to organize my miniature paints to both make it easier to find the color that I wanted and to get them off of my painting table, which was getting cluttered. So, I designed these holders to be easily mounted on the wall behind the table (and to be removable in case I wanted to set a collection of paints down on the table itself or set up a color palette for a project or something). So, I designed these guys; they're leaning back at a 30 degree angle to keep the paint firmly in place but still make it easy to put them in and take them out. These are sized for Vallejo or Army Painter bottles and do not fit Citadel pots. While I was mounting these, I realized that I needed a jig to help me line up the second row of paint holders, so I whipped that up and included it here as well (it's the PaintStorage8template.stl file). It's got the same hole spacing as the paint holders on the horizontal axis, but it includes a second row above it that has enough of a gap to allow the bottom row to still be lifted out if you want. I also put a little shelf on it so that you can use a level when marking out your screw holes (if you're the kind of person who wants a bespoke miniature paint storage solution, I figure that we have a lot in common and so know that you must also want to make sure that each section is actually level). I printed these with a 0.4 mm nozzle (laying on their back so that the strong layer orientation would support the screw mounts) and 0.2 mm layers. These guys don't need any supports, although the print angles are pretty steep and so you might end up with a little bit of slop depending on what your printer can handle. As always, the .blend file and pre-supported .3mf (including one that I used to print this on my Prusa MK3 (if applicable), although the support points should work for SLA printers) for my models are available to my patrons at https://patreon.com/VirtuallyJason. If you appreciate my work and have a few dollars to spare each month, please consider joining!