I purchased two Paint Carrying Cases as a replacement for my Reaper Paint Caddy. I store my paints on a craft shelf where the Caddy was sticking out slightly, so I thought the Outrider cases would be a good substitude, despite requiring two of them to hold the paints that I was storing in my Caddy. I has already purchased and enjoyed the HD paint set which came in a similar case.
On the positive, the cases are great. Solid and easy to use. I love the room for brushes and extras. They succeed in fitting on the shelf as I intended.
On the other hand, I have two observations:
(1) the glue that was used to adhere the top portion of foam to the bottom foam was not applied as carefully as it was for my HD set. The glue sticks to the paint bottles and now many of the dropper bottles have a sticky residue on the bottom where I inevitably get on my hands when shaking the bottles. Also, a couple of the droppers ended up being glued to the bottom of the case and took quite a bit of careful yanking to remove from the case.
(2) The handles are incredibly comfortable to carry - except that it is difficult to carry more than one case in one hand. I intended to have 3 cases to carry to my painting sessions, but I'll have to rig something togetther with a One Trip Grip or something to manage this. Likely not a primary consideration for many that might be in the market for a case, but something to consider.
Apparently, the cases are sold out at the moment, but I thought I would share these observations before I forget all about them.
Case: https://www.reapermi.../sku-down/08706
Caddy: https://www.reapermi.../sku-down/09999
One Trip Grip: http://amzn.com/B000RZ6XL8
(edit: fixed caddy url)
(edit #2: apparently this was post #100 for me. yay.)
Reaper paint case review
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kyaakone
, Oct 30 2012 05:02 PM
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Posted 30 October 2012 - 05:13 PM
I should point out that Outrider only produced the foam for our first 500 cases sold, all subsequent cases have been otherwise sourced. Outrider's foam was slightly firmer than our current source, and I can attest that there were no glue situations such as you describe.
That said, Outrider's name is on the product as "designed by", to give him credit for the work he did making the product a reality, and should not be used to infer that his company manufactured all foam inserts inside.
That said, Outrider's name is on the product as "designed by", to give him credit for the work he did making the product a reality, and should not be used to infer that his company manufactured all foam inserts inside.
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Posted 30 October 2012 - 05:26 PM
I should point out that Outrider only produced the foam for our first 500 cases sold, all subsequent cases have been otherwise sourced. Outrider's foam was slightly firmer than our current source, and I can attest that there were no glue situations such as you describe.
That said, Outrider's name is on the product as "designed by", to give him credit for the work he did making the product a reality, and should not be used to infer that his company manufactured all foam inserts inside.
Oh I see. I didn't carefully read the credit on the box. Wish I could edit the topic to be more clear. Thanks for the clarification ReaperBryan.
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Posted 30 October 2012 - 05:56 PM
Soooo... whatcha doin' with that paint caddy, now that it's replaced? 
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Posted 30 October 2012 - 06:08 PM
Soooo... whatcha doin' with that paint caddy, now that it's replaced?
Not sure. Might hold my groups of incomplete mini bits.
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Posted 31 October 2012 - 01:26 AM
Stupid question, but how about some DIY with the storage cases from Michael's or another hobby shop?
For under $5 on clearance, I got this Iris storage case for 12" x 12" paper. It's 3.5" tall, which means it's EXACTLY the height to store eye droppers. Add spongy foam and DIY dividers to keep the paints from rattling about.
Michael's also has these storage things that are transportable. Not bad at a 40% off sale or with a Michael's coupon!
EDIT: DIY foam paint carrying case: http://chicagoskirmi...01_archive.html
For under $5 on clearance, I got this Iris storage case for 12" x 12" paper. It's 3.5" tall, which means it's EXACTLY the height to store eye droppers. Add spongy foam and DIY dividers to keep the paints from rattling about.
Michael's also has these storage things that are transportable. Not bad at a 40% off sale or with a Michael's coupon!
EDIT: DIY foam paint carrying case: http://chicagoskirmi...01_archive.html
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Posted 01 November 2012 - 05:27 PM
I bought the MSP HD Set 1 & 2 from different vendors and the glue that held the foam together was not cured on either one of them and my # 1 set was really bad as the glue was all over my paint bottles maybe a quality issue Reaper needs to look into.
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Posted 01 November 2012 - 06:28 PM
I had the same problem - the paints no longer live in those cases. 
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