The Army Painter’s Scrubby Cup and Thin Plastic Glue are here to save your brushes and give your models cleaner bonds between parts.
The Army Painter just dropped a pair of hobby tools that look a lot more useful than the usual accessory filler some companies drop. One is for painters tired of abusing their brushes in a random coffee mug. The other is for builders who want cleaner seams without the usual glue-covered nonsense.
The big win here is that both products are built around actual hobby problems. The Scrubby Cup is finally available online after being one of those event-only items people kept hunting for, while the new Thin Plastic Glue gives hobbyists another extra-thin cement option that’s easier to find than Tamiya glue.
Add in the fact that the cup is cheaper than GW’s water pot and far easier to toss in a travel kit, and this is a pretty easy product drop to pay attention to.
New Army Painter Products: Spring 2026
All product pricing is accurate as of the article date
This release is all about practical hobby tools, not flashy shelf candy. The Army Painter Scrubby Cup has finally landed on the company’s webstore, which matters because people have been asking where to get one for a while now. Before this, it had that event-exclusive energy where everyone saw it, liked it, and then had to go hunting.
Now it’s just available.
Alongside it comes The Army Painter Thin Plastic Glue, also labeled as extra-thin cement, aimed at builders who want tighter joins, less mess, and more control. Put together, these feel like two products made for painters and hobbyists who are tired of making do with kitchen junk drawer solutions and whatever glue bottle happened to be in stock.
The Army Painter Scrubby Cup: $25
At a glance, sure, it is a rinse cup. But it’s also collapsible, portable, and built with features that make sense for miniature painters instead of just existing to pad out a hobby line.
The collapsible design is the first big plus. It folds down when you are done, which is handy for hobbyists with crowded desks, smaller workspaces, or travel setups. That already makes it more useful than the average water cup sitting around your hobby station, collecting paint sludge. It is portable, easy to stash, and does not feel like another bulky chunk of plastic demanding permanent table space.
Then you get into the brush-care side of things. The spill-resistant design is one of those features that sounds boring until you almost dump dirty rinse water across a half-finished squad. Built-in brush rests help keep your tools from rolling off the desk, and the tip-straightening grooves are a nice touch for anyone trying to keep detail brushes alive longer than three painting sessions.
The real standout, though, is the removable scrubby bottom. Instead of grinding paint out of your bristles against the side of a mug like a complete animal, you get an actual textured cleaning surface designed to help clear paint out without beating your brushes to death.
Since it was developed with Game Envy, this feels like a product where somebody actually thought about brush maintenance before writing the marketing copy.
And let’s be honest, one of the easiest comparisons here is GW’s water pot. The Scrubby Cup looks cheaper than GW’s water cup, is more portable, and, frankly, is more useful. If you are already spending hobby money on a dedicated rinse setup, this one at least feels like it is trying to earn it.
The Army Painter Thin Plastic Glue: $8.63
This one looks like a solid pickup for builders who are tired of wrestling with messier plastic cement. The big selling point is the Poly-Weld formula, which lightly melts the plastic surfaces together instead of just sticking them with a basic adhesive layer. That means stronger joints and cleaner seams, which is exactly what you want when you are assembling miniatures and trying not to leave ugly construction scars all over the model.
That alone gives it some real hobby value.
The extra-thin consistency is another big plus. This stuff is designed to flow into seams and tight contact points through capillary action, which is the fancy way of saying the glue moves where it needs to go without you slopping it everywhere. Touch it to the join, let it run into place, and enjoy not flooding the whole part like it is your first day with a glue bottle.
That makes it especially useful on fiddly kits, tiny contact points, and awkward joins that always seem to shift the second you get glue near them. The integrated brush applicator only helps more, since it gives you better control over detail work and cuts down on the usual overapplication disasters.
New hobbyists should find that easier to manage, and veteran builders will probably just appreciate getting cleaner results faster.
Then there’s the big comparison a lot of hobbyists are going to make right away. Tamiya Extra Thin is great, but depending on where you are shopping, it can still be weirdly annoying to get. That gives Army Painter an opening here. This looks like the kind of product that should be easier to find, easier to toss into an order with paints and supplies, and less of a chore to track down when your current bottle finally runs dry.
The airtight screw lid is also a smart touch. Extra-thin cement is fantastic right up until you realize half the bottle evaporated because the lid setup was garbage. Keeping it fresh between hobby sessions is not some bonus feature. It is part of whether the product does its job.
Final Thoughts on the New Army Painter Products
This is a pretty smart little release from The Army Painter because both products solve actual hobby headaches. The Scrubby Cup gives painters a more portable, more organized, and more useful cleaning setup than the usual random cup on the desk. The Thin Plastic Glue looks like a legit extra-thin cement option for builders who want cleaner seams, better control, and less mess.
More importantly, both products seem positioned where hobbyists will actually care. The Scrubby Cup is finally easy to buy online, cheaper than GW’s water pot, and portable enough to make sense for cramped desks or hobby travel.
The glue has a real shot too, mostly because it looks like a solid alternative that should be easier to get than Tamiya glue without giving up the precision people want from extra-thin cement.
Are you grabbing the Scrubby Cup, the Thin Plastic Glue, or both?
