After a few years of painting miniatures, I've accumulated quite a few paints. In the past i kept them unorganized on my desk or nicely stacked in a shelf but i always found that they take too much space from my desk. And let's be honest, you don't need all of them at once.
So since i got myself a 3D printer, i decided to design and print a paint bottle storage system for my Citadel, Vallejo and other paint bottles which works with the Awesome Gridfinity system.
Designing the bottle holder is quite easy. I measure the bottles i want to store and create a new Gridfinity Bin in Fusion 360 with the Gridfinity plugin.
To make the print using as little material as possible, i created the bin with a height of 1 Gridfinity unit and added the bottle holder on top of it.
The holder is designed to hold the bottle in place and to make it easy to grab the bottle. The holders itself are designed to just a thin wall around the bottle to save material and improve print time.
The final design is also parametric so i can easily adjust the size of the holder to fit other bottles.
I printed the holders using my Elegoo Neptune 4 with a 0.6mm nozzle and a layer height of 0.3mm.
The print time for a single holder is around 37 minutes.
The bed of the Elegoo Neptune 4 is big enough to print 4 holders at once, which takes around 2 hours and 30 minutes.
You can find the .stl files and the Fusion 360 project on my Makerworld page.