Odd tools for odd painting jobs!

[Subedai]

I have several b & p's. Back in the '70's I was making a leather pouch for my SK days. To put the holes in the leather a friend got a large sewing needle, wrapped some wire around the top half and then ran solder all down the spiral to seal it. Back in the day I used it to melt plastic Airfix horses to the bases but it's most common use now is to unblock the pouring holes on Vallejo paint bottles. (It's nearly 30 years old!)
I also made myself a set of modelling chisels from 1-10mm and a small brass hammer.
Ground down hacksaw blades (large), put a nut in between the two as a separator and you have a pair of tweezers.
Like Mad Lemmey, I also have a very soft artists brush that only ever gets used to remove flock.

[get2grips]

Children's medicine dispenders for dripping single drops of water in to paint.

Brushes that have lost all their bristles for poking filler in between bases.

An old pillow case as a painting mat: lovely for wiping paint off a brush to just the right consistency.

A pack of those very small screwdrivers (pound shop) for poking, pushing, removing flash etc.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Phew, and I thought is was just me! Can't believe this got to a second page, but then again...

[Matt J]

old contact lense cases used for mixing paint in. After a while I need to pull the old acrylic paint out and give them to the kids as crazy looking buttons.

[Womble67]

I've got a couple of old paint brushes that I've converted by putting those small crocodile clips on, I also use syringes for measuring paint

Take care

Andy

[Ace of Spades]

I also use a syringe; I replaced the needle with a bit of plastic tubing that fits just right and I use it to drip dilluted pva-glue onto the sand on the bases. Sometimes mix in some paint too. Keeps me from fiddling with filler, glue and paint in between freshly painted figures.
The dilluted glue will soak into the sand without staining the figures. When it starts to set you can still shape it quite well.
Okay; keeping the right amount of pressure on the syringe is quite important!

Cheers,
Rob