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Getting started

Eleven dry leaves and one decant

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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"Wide mouth to get fingers in, clear so you can see what is inside." That is the brief, exactly.

What this group actually is

Screws, bearings, track pins, pin vise bits, scale wheels, photoetch frets, decal sheets, unpainted figures, neodymium magnets and weathering powder. Small, numerous, easily lost and sorted by eye.

Which makes it a sorting problem

A modeller does not have one container, they have forty. The question is never which jar is best, it is how to keep forty of them findable on a bench that is also a workbench.

The archetype gets this right

store-small-dry, 15 to 500 mL, wide mouth, clear, scooped. In a library where the archetype is usually describing a neighbouring craft, this one describes the craft in front of it.

So the gaps here are measured against its own words

Wide, and 376 of 646 containers are bottles. Clear, and 175 of 646 are clear. The archetype is right and the shelf only partly follows it.

The twelfth leaf belongs elsewhere

Paint decant is the miniature painting property, where the repackager question under the art materials law and the resin compatibility chart are set out in full. Nothing about it is repeated here.

Which leaves two regulated questions

Not about the containers, but about what goes in them. A small part is measured by a cylinder, and a magnet is measured by that same cylinder plus a flux index.

Those matter because of who is in the room

Modelling is a hobby adults do at a table, often in a house with children, and the parts are the right size to be swallowed. The two gauges exist for exactly that.

And one leaf is the dangerous one

Neodymium magnets have their own federal standard because of what two of them do to a bowel. The magnets section covers it rather than leaving it implied.

Weathering powder is the other outlier

A fine pigment rather than a part, dusty, and the only thing in the group with an inhalation question. The miniature painting property covers pigment handling.

Read the containers page for what is genuinely here

A big shelf, a good jar range, and two specific absences: compartment boxes and anything that would hold a decal sheet flat.

References

The archetype behind this shelf is store-small-dry: 15 to 500 mL, wide mouth, no closure requirement, PP and PET and glass, cold, solid, chunky, scooped, with "small dry parts, wide mouth to get fingers in, clear so you can see what is inside" as its stated reason. Eleven of the twelve leaves are dry parts, so the archetype describes the craft correctly, which is uncommon in this library.
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The model parts and paint shelf is 1,136 rows: 646 containers and 490 closures. 5 mL to 2,000 mL with a median of 118; 25 containers at 15 mL or under, 84 at 30 or under, 183 at 60 or under, 336 at 120 or under, 522 at 250 or under. 351 PET, 117 glass, 100 HDPE, 78 PP. 376 bottles, 255 jars, 13 tubs and pails, 2 tubes. 175 clear, 141 white, 101 amber, 61 blue, 60 natural, 47 black. Closures: 288 continuous thread, 32 disc top, 31 child resistant, 26 spouted, 22 dome lids, 19 lug and twist, 14 phenolic, 13 spice caps, 11 liners and sealing discs, 10 flip top.
Written from 16 CFR 1501.4 and 16 CFR 1262, and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. No cylinder dimensions appear anywhere in this property, because the rule gives them in a figure rather than in its text. Whether a particular part or magnet passes either test is a determination about that article; we sell the container it is kept in. Whether a kit is a children's product is the four-factor test covered in the resin jewelry property.