This changes everything! I made one tonight and it’s working a treat. I’m in Australia so I had to pour the water in anticlockwise. People in the Southern Hemisphere need to keep this in mind otherwise your palette will work backwards.
It must be gratifying to know that nearly 10 years after uploading, your video is still appreciated and useful. Thanks for this, making this pallet after watching has helped my painting considerably. Cheers from Oz😄👍🇦🇺
This video has been invaluable. Thanks for your work, too, I randomly stumbled across your channel recently and it ignited a 15 years dormant hobby passion. Cheers!
+Tïr Eoghain Blackman I'm always so glad to hear about people getting back into the hobby, and if one of my videos can help facilitate that, then it makes me even happier! Thanks for watching!
Could have been me who wrote that comment. Got back into the hobby much thanks to this channel, and the wet palette thing has been invaluable for me as well. Left the hobby about 15 years ago as well. A bit of my hobby budget got into becoming a patreon, feelt suitable since its pretty much your fault and your backlog keeps me company while I paint. =D
Great video- I have sent this to some friends who want an economy wet pallete. Per your comments- some fun facts: The containers you are using are thermoformed polypropylene. Those are not a multi layer structure and have imperfections in material distribution due to the process used to form them cheaply. In order to have a O2 or H2O barrier you would need to have a multi layer structure. EVOH (ethylene vinyl alcohol) is a chemical formulation used in thermoforming to reduce oxygen permeability. You could reduce the moisture permeability through the plastic walls with a layer of HDPE. Ultimately, the poor fit between the lid and the container (respectively) is where you will get your oxygen and moisture loss and transmission. The goal on the lid to container fit is call a "pinch" fit in order to squeeze the lid onto the container to give you a very low cost short duration seal. Just some fun facts from a plastics engineer :)
I’m gonna be real honest, I’ve been a part of this hobby for over 15 years and no joke this is one of the most helpful tips/videos I had. Two years ago I got myself a set of good quality sable brushes and made my own wet palette out of an old tupperware box using this “guide”. The difference those two factors made in both the quality and ease in my painting has been mind boggling. Using a wet palette also saved me a bunch of money on paints as I no longer waste half of it as it dries when thinned.
Oh. My. God. This is the single greatest thing since I was told to thin my paint. I just went and got the things to do this, and I am already enjoying painting so much more! Thank you SO much!
I absolutely LOVE this tutorial, as I had never heard of wet palettes before, and now don't know how I ever made do without them. I looked in my local art store, and an artist/pro wet palette would have cost me €55, but then I went the local discount shop, and got 20 boxes like these for under €10, plus the parchment paper and a bundle of paper towel rolls thrown in for the price. BARGAIN :-D I now have so many wet palettes ready and used regularly for all kinds of model needs, and keep using my discount store bargain shopping trips to stock up on other materials, too. My minis now look SO much better, and my painting service is so in demand, that I have had to take on three other painters to keep up :-)
My friend made me take up the Warhammer hobby again. I was into it when I was somewhere between 10-13. Now Im 26 and I've really been missing something creative and meditative for relaxation. Something to just sit with after I come home from the MTB trail or from a day of work / studying. Your videos (and other vids on youtube) really helped me get a jumping start. Thank you for some great videos!
I had seen Citadel's wet palettes for sale and thought it was an cool concept but not something I had to have. I still say I don't need Citadel's but after making one based on your instructions here and using it tonight I have to say it is one of the coolest and helpful tools in the bag. I was able to do work on multiple minis, laying down a basecoat of black for some chainmail and every drop of paint was used, I never had to worry about it drying up on me, never got that layer of crud on top and it even helped me improve my paint time. Thanks a ton man.
To suppress mould, add a few copper coins (1c or 1p coins) in between the layers of paper towel. Over time the coins will go green as they kill off bad stuff, but your palette should stay fresh. Wash the coins with soap to re-use them.
What's so brilliant about this is it allows for painting at a methodical pace without wasting vast amounts of paint. I'm really achieving better results thanks to this - thank you so much!
Thank you very much for that video. I haven't been painting miniatures since I was a teenager, around 20 years ago, and it's absolutely incredible to witness how easier it is to learn new techniques thanks to the Internet, RUclips and of course people like you.
Entertaining and informative! I am grateful to professionals like you who are willing to share their knowledge with us "newbies". Thanks for your time and effort, it's appreciated.
Thanks so much for the tip! Being the cheap-ass that I am, I bought acrylic paint in tubes, so this method is going to be pretty much essential for painting my minis. I don't even need to buy anything to make this work! Thanks again!
Just started the hobby yesterday, picked up my first 10 miniatures and a few colours and a couple shades. Thought I'd watch these videos as I just threw down my primer.. glad I did. Learning a lot!
I’m very new to mini painting and started using a homemade wet palette last week. It’s so much easier. The only difference I did was that I did not apply the parchment before the water. I went paper towel, water and then parchment. The parchment will need a couple of minutes as it will curl up immediately but then will flatten out once it’s left alone. I find that method better to avoid unneeded water on the top. To be fair I probably don’t have as good an ability to judge the amount of water yet so it cuts that issue out for me! Loving the channel, especially the amazing painting videos by Sam! Thanks!
Hey Atom! I recently started playing Shadespire, my first tabletop like game since almost 30 years (the last was the original heroquest) and you are the reason I decided to start painting. And now I have found not just a new hobby, it became a passion in a very short time. I can't thank you enough! Keep up the good work!
So interesting that you made this. I've been looking into getting into painting minis. My mom recommended that I use a wet pallet. I was trying to tell her that people that paint minis don't use them. I'll have to call her and tell her that she is right, and that they do in fact work very well for this purpose. Mom's, always looking out for you. Thanks.
Well, since it is so cheap and easy to try this out, I went ahead and built a relatively small wet palette and boy is this awesome!!! I didn't really know what to expect but it makes a world of difference. The paint does not dry out so I need much less of it. But the thing that I love most of all: the paint is soooooooo much easier to control! It works soooooooo much smoother! I feel like I am a way better painter just by changing this small thing and I love it!!!! Thank you so much for this incredible tip; it changed painting models from a chore to something I thoroughly enjoy! 😁👍
I did something similar, I used a box just like yours, but instead of a towel I actually used a thin square sponge (ones you would use for cleaning and stuff), and I put a small piece of baking parchment on top of it , after I filled it with enough water. I was sceptical with regards to usage of wet pallet, but once I tried it - I knew for sure... no coming back to not using it. Makes painting so much easier, and my paints last much much longer !
Sponge works fine if you can find the right kind. I figured that paper towel is something that nearly anyone can find around the house, plus you don’t feel bad throwing it out if it gets full of paint. Thanks for watching!
This has been amazingly helpful i had 40 DA veterans to paint and didnt want to blow through all my green and tan paints, thankyou good sir you are scholar and a gentleman
You can be watertight without being airtight. and achieving true air tightness is virtually impossible. For example when humanity travels to the stars we will always need to account for some leakage from the hull of the ship, as some of the smaller atoms will always be able to find their way through the gaps between atomic bonds. Until we work out how to compress elements on an atomic scale, we will always have to deal with this issue. Great video, thanks for all the hard work! :)
This inspired to make my own wet palette. I used one empty, well washed butter container, a sponge, two layers of paper towels and parchment paper. Keeping the sponge fully wet with loads of water there, but not too much in conjuction with paper towels drawing the moisture from the sponge means I need to rehydrate my palette like once a week or alternatively, just squeeze the sponge bit.
I have no art background but I love the "zen" feeling of painting miniatures. Although I love painting, I hate how they come out. I was painting exactly how you described in the beginning of the video. You explained the link I was missing! Thank you!
I had incredible results with this. I'm a beginner painter and this has changed everything for me. I never could thin down my paints very well (details still visible but "rounded down" by the paint just a little bit) and this wet palette just made it so much easier to thin down my paint, paint my miniature and get the color I want. Thank you so much for sharing this.
This video with the other video's that you have put out about technique has been a great help to me! After a 12 year pause I've got back into WH40k, thank you for this video and the others!
ive been playin 40k for a year now. i love painting minis. i came across this video on the crapper and it has changed everything i thought i knew about painting minis. thank you sooooo much for sharing this. subscribing, liking, following.
i don't know what mini's are, but i found this video and it rocks... i also watched a bunch of your other videos because i love looking at your face and hearing you talk... thanks handsome...
Just made my first wet palette tonight and while I didn't get to paint as much tonight as I usually do I already love it! I am new to painting and am really excited for how this can help me. Thanks very much! Especially for showing how to make one and save some money! Love all your videos!
Well, deference to some commenters who have said that they wish they had found this advice years ago, I've been painting models and figures (on and off) for 30 years. This technique is super helpful and you explain it great, but who can say for sure if I would have been able to get it or even been respectful enough to listen 'back then'. What's great is - you're doing this NOW! So, keeping in mind that this is an old vid, answer if you wish, but have you discussed in any way how to anticipate color change due to drying? I've always compensated by experience with the material, but I don't have an understanding or a rubric to bounce my experience off of, so, although I'm getting good results, I feel that my potential is being narrowed. Thanks again for your awesome work and for sharing it with us!
Generally paints 'dry down' which means they get darker as they dry. There's no way to be sure of how much, exactly. That's the issue. Thanks for watching!
I always try to anticipate about "a shade" darker, so I mix my paints just a TINY bit lighter than I want. I then use a toothpick to put a fine line on some white paper and because it dries so quickly on that it can tell me the color it will look when it dries. Hope that's a little helpful.
It has been a few years since I painted. Decided to brush up on my techniques and watch a bit of youtube. First time using a wet palette. Needless to say, this is a real eye opener.
This is probably my favorite comment of the whole salvo, and I've read them all! Thanks to MWG Dave and the Eye of Terror, and as a fellow brother of Chaos, may Papa Nurgle give you all a bug squishy hug, and may your palette always be wet!
Years later I've found Warhammer Underworlds and I'm hooked. Never painted any mini before and only primed the starting war bands. I'm scared to death to have the paint job come out tacky and after watching this I think you saved me some heart ache. Awesome video still helping years later.
Holy crap, this just changed my whole feeling on acrylics. Ages ago I used enamel (oil) which I didn't remember drying out nearly as fast and I couldn't figure out why everyone was saying that acrylics are better. Just got through painting an entire figure without the paint drying. Don't think I'll ever be able to paint without this now. I know this is an older video but thank you for making it :)
I just found this video because I want to start painting miniatures, and I must say: you are one of the best RUclipsrs I've ever seen. The sound quality, presentation, video content, getting straight to the point... awesome work! Your personality is great, too.
The strangest thing I've found about painting miniatures is that the biggest advancements in my ability always seem to come from putting down the brush for months or years at a time. For some reason, I always come back better than I left...
Same here. I started when I was 16 and got better. Stopped at 19 and started again at 26 and I was miles better. Stopped again and now I'm 33 and I'm better. Maybe as I got older I got more patient and more willing to put in the time for more layers etc.
Im exactly the same, when I was 13 (21 now) id just drybrush my marines with gunmetal and glob on flesh tone then attempt to wash them using watery black or red. Just got into it 8 years later and I have more patience and Id maturity plays a big role ie ive spent 80 quid of my hard earned money so I better take my time making mister grey pants mister blue pants
I've collected WH40k for almost 20 years now. I have hundreds of models. I've never painted a single one. Not fully. Now I've started to paint (third time, actually, that I've started to paint), and I believe this will help me not to destroy my models, hang myself and burn the paints. In that order. Thank you so very much for this *awesome* idea.
Recently came across your channel and have been enjoying your past videos. I did want to say that I made a wet palette after watching this and I'm flabbergasted just how well it works and how much quicker I paint because of it. Thank you and keep up the great work.
I've been thinning my paints for a while now but this technique to stop the paint drying out will be a real life saver, can't wait to try it out. Keep up the good work on the videos too!
I finally tried this today and I am AMAZED! I had been using a dry palette and often would have the paint dry before i would even be done painting the part I was working on. Now I can see my paint loss almost entirely being eliminated. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thank you very much for that. I was shocked how good it is. Amazing, I was able to paint whole Stormtrooper mini from Imperial Assault with White Scar colour and the paint did not get tacky. I would not believed it until I tried. Great and cheap;)
Almost 7 years old and still very helpful! Due to all of this quarantine I have bought some minis to paint in the next few months! First time using a wet pallet and I am very excited to get started
I use that tub myself actually. And it was only yesterday that I decided to use if as a wet palette. And then today I run across this video looking for info. The universe provides...
All this time I had a better kind of palette sitting in my kitchen cupboards and had no idea. You have sold me on the wet palette! I'll be trying it on my next mini. Thanks for this.
I cant thank you enough for this video, I have been struggling along with a dry palette and drying paints and this has been a revolution, blending is so easy now and it has really improved my painting even in the hour since I made it.
+Tabletop Minions I'm giving this wet pallet thing a go. Thanks for the heads up. A friend of mine has been at me to try this method for years now and I've stubbornly resisted. It's time to give it a try.
+JohnnyH1982 I'm glad that I have more influence on you than your actually real life friend does. And I'm glad you're actually going to start using a wet palette, it's really super helpful. Thanks for watching!
+Tabletop Minions haha, no problem, I'm happy to keep watching so long as you are producing. Me and my buddy hit Walmart the other day and grabbed up some of that Krylon Camouflage and he's really happy with it. He's also a frequent visitor to your channel. As for the wet pallet, I've noticed just after a few days of use several advantages including not having to worry too hard about thinning paint down the same way I did when just using a piece of paper or a pringles top for a dry pallet. I cannot say with any certainty that there were any immediate effects to my painting quality, but the thinner paints do make edge highlights much more fluid, for sure.
I just made one yesterday following your steps. I'm a brand new painter and it makes thinning paints so much easier. I have some excess paint sitting in the container from last night, let's see how it looks when I get home from work today.
Hi, new to painting minis. I've literally spent about a year watching all the great videos on RUclips and I've really enjoyed yours. I tried this right away. Living in northern Ohio the air is very dry right now especially with forced hot air heating. So on a basic plastic palette the paint dries really quickly. Makes it very hard. I tried this and it work great, mostly. I am using Reynolds Parchment Paper. At times, on the wet palette, the paint doesn't seem to want to mix. The parchment seems to even cause it to want separate. It makes for a great science lab to show my kids. I can open the palette a day later and what was one color is now two distinct colors. Does this happen to others? Being new, I am trying different paint manufactures, but this doesn't seem exclusive to when I am mixing paints from two manufactures. Most of my paint right now is Citadel and Army painter. I am also trying Vallejo and Reaper. Finally, I didn't see it if you've covered it, but what do you do when you go to use some paint and it's getting thicker then when you bought it? Can you add water to thin it back down a bit? Should you ever add it to the bottle? I'd like these bottles to last a long time.
+Carl Kessler Sometimes my paints separate a bit on the palette, but it's usually if I haven't mixed them around with a brush on the parchment. If it happens, I usually just mix it back together with a brush, and problem solved. Thanks for watching!
Know this is an old post, Vallejo flow improver, cheap, get it straight into the bottle, thins the paint back down and doesn't dilute the pigment. Use it just a bit at a time
So I've been getting into Kill Team/40k over the past, uhhhh, while, and I found your videos and have really enjoyed them a ton, shared them with friends, etc, and I came across one of your more recent videos where you talked about this one. You mentioned how the quality doesn't live up to your current standards, which to be fair it doesn't, however I think even still this was a wonderful video. Maybe not on a production level, but in the same way your newer content is, which is the content and personality behind the video! Thanks for all the time and effort you put into the community, it's definitely a help to newbies and veterans alike!
I have a question Do you switch out the parchment paper every refresh If not what happens to the paint from before when I apply the refresh water do I just avoid it or something?
I started using a wet pallet after watching this video and it made painting my pre heresy alpha legion a hell of a lot easer, no need to continually thin my paints now.... Great Tutorial keep up the great work
I am a new subscriber and I love your videos. One idea though, I think sometimes you take too much time to explain one thing that you have already made clear.
Thanks for sharing this. Watched this video a couple years ago and a wet palette combined with tutorials written by pro painters has made my technique soar. And I can’t even tell you how much paint I’ve saved. One thing I do have to add though, is if you set it down and don’t paint for a long time, throw out the old paper towel and dry it or you will grow mold. That’s happened to me and I ended up throwing away a perfectly good Tupperware container.
How often should you swap this out, or can you just replace the parchment paper and add water before you put the next piece in? If so, how often for that?
+RabidRob 42 I put in a new piece of parchment when there aren’t any more empty spaces to put paint, and then I just usually replace everything (the paper towel and water, too. Thanks for watching!
Tonight I made a wet palette for the first time and I was kind of skeptical that it would be much of an improvement, but I was wrong. It worked great, my paints stayed wet the whole time and they went on the model very smoothly. Thanks for the video.
I got here in 2020 by link from other your video. I start using wet palette and it really works great. When checking other videos I had wrong impression that a lot of paint is wasted. This is actually other way around, because it doesn't dry so fast I don't waste as much paint as I had in past. Thank you for this and other videos.
Thank you for posting this video. I watched it probably 4 months ago when I first started painting and now while painting it came across the PC. You are not wrong this has made the greatest improvement to my painting and its amazing that it seems to be a less known "Secret" Thank you for what you do!
@@austoncarpenter4702 I was actually thinking about the sheer volume of paint I've been wasting by painting directly out of my Tamiya pots all these years!
My thanks to you and your great videos! Been struggling to get back into painting my 40K stuff after a long break, slowly finding my love of painting again and your wet palate advice has definitely knocked my paining speed up a notch! Didn't realise how much time I waste thinning down paint until I made my wet palate. So thanks again, and keep up the good work!
This changes everything! I made one tonight and it’s working a treat. I’m in Australia so I had to pour the water in anticlockwise. People in the Southern Hemisphere need to keep this in mind otherwise your palette will work backwards.
Whoa. You just blew my mind. Thanks for watching!
What if you are on the ISS?
wait, is this a joke? i too live in australia. oi! prime ministah!
Australia gang
Of course, and toilets swirls anticlockwise (counterclockwise for the rest the of the world) when you flush them in Australia.
Also, the statement "you can find Paper Towel everywhere" hits different in 2020 lol.
Luckily I don’t use toilet paper in my wet palette. Thanks for watching!
@@tabletopminions R/Cursedcomments
Hahaha, true shit
No it doesn't
@@bensmith5288 ???
Video is 5 years old and it just helped me out a ton. Awesome video and tips. Thanks, brother.
MrForsaken5 video is nearing 7 years old now, and here I am!
9 years now
bruh 10
It must be gratifying to know that nearly 10 years after uploading, your video is still appreciated and useful. Thanks for this, making this pallet after watching has helped my painting considerably. Cheers from Oz😄👍🇦🇺
I know this is an old video. But you sir, made my life. I only wished I had found this before I wasted a pots worth of paint scrubbed off the palete
+Yoshin van Hek I'm always glad to help. Thanks for watching!
I can't explain why, but I just bought some Tau. I don't even play 40K.
+TwistedBishop Oh, I know why. Thanks for watching!
It’s probably because Tau look awesome
That's how I got started with 40K.
Now you do! :)
I've doesn't that. Bought the new Tua starter because the models are awesome!
This video has been invaluable. Thanks for your work, too, I randomly stumbled across your channel recently and it ignited a 15 years dormant hobby passion. Cheers!
+Tïr Eoghain Blackman I'm always so glad to hear about people getting back into the hobby, and if one of my videos can help facilitate that, then it makes me even happier! Thanks for watching!
Could have been me who wrote that comment.
Got back into the hobby much thanks to this channel, and the wet palette thing has been invaluable for me as well.
Left the hobby about 15 years ago as well.
A bit of my hobby budget got into becoming a patreon, feelt suitable since its pretty much your fault and your backlog keeps me company while I paint. =D
Me three. Just decided to purchase my first squad, and your channel's been playing a marathon for me to prepare by.
Same for me, started all that hobby thing again after ... 15/20 years, and mostly thanks to (or because of) this channel. =)
Work in the piping industry. You can have water tight while not having air tight. You're welcome! :)
I guess that makes sense, O2 is a smaller molecule than H2O.
@@mofo888 It is not, H2O is 0.27nm and O2 is 0.3nm
Hydrogen Bonding?
@@mathieutherezien1397 well .... Then crap. Is it just surface tension then?
also parchment paper is great for baking.
Yeah, if you're into that, I guess. But it's great for wet palettes. Thanks for watching!
i bake everything with it, also great for sprayfoam terrain
Why has it taken me a year to read your comment LOL? Thanks for the info.
Great video- I have sent this to some friends who want an economy wet pallete. Per your comments- some fun facts: The containers you are using are thermoformed polypropylene. Those are not a multi layer structure and have imperfections in material distribution due to the process used to form them cheaply. In order to have a O2 or H2O barrier you would need to have a multi layer structure. EVOH (ethylene vinyl alcohol) is a chemical formulation used in thermoforming to reduce oxygen permeability. You could reduce the moisture permeability through the plastic walls with a layer of HDPE. Ultimately, the poor fit between the lid and the container (respectively) is where you will get your oxygen and moisture loss and transmission. The goal on the lid to container fit is call a "pinch" fit in order to squeeze the lid onto the container to give you a very low cost short duration seal. Just some fun facts from a plastics engineer :)
mattcowling NEEEEEEEERRRRD
@@DirectorMoe we're on a miniature painting video... :P
@@owlblocksdavid4955 that the creator speaking said he wanted information on that very subject
He.. Heisenberg?
I googled Nerd and it led me directly to your post!
I’m gonna be real honest, I’ve been a part of this hobby for over 15 years and no joke this is one of the most helpful tips/videos I had.
Two years ago I got myself a set of good quality sable brushes and made my own wet palette out of an old tupperware box using this “guide”.
The difference those two factors made in both the quality and ease in my painting has been mind boggling. Using a wet palette also saved me a bunch of money on paints as I no longer waste half of it as it dries when thinned.
I’m glad to hear that it helped. Thanks for watching!
Oh. My. God. This is the single greatest thing since I was told to thin my paint. I just went and got the things to do this, and I am already enjoying painting so much more! Thank you SO much!
I absolutely LOVE this tutorial, as I had never heard of wet palettes before, and now don't know how I ever made do without them. I looked in my local art store, and an artist/pro wet palette would have cost me €55, but then I went the local discount shop, and got 20 boxes like these for under €10, plus the parchment paper and a bundle of paper towel rolls thrown in for the price. BARGAIN :-D I now have so many wet palettes ready and used regularly for all kinds of model needs, and keep using my discount store bargain shopping trips to stock up on other materials, too. My minis now look SO much better, and my painting service is so in demand, that I have had to take on three other painters to keep up :-)
My friend made me take up the Warhammer hobby again. I was into it when I was somewhere between 10-13. Now Im 26 and I've really been missing something creative and meditative for relaxation. Something to just sit with after I come home from the MTB trail or from a day of work / studying.
Your videos (and other vids on youtube) really helped me get a jumping start. Thank you for some great videos!
Glad to hear you're getting back into it. Thanks for watching!
Man, it's the damndest thing, but for some reason I now really, REALLY want to buy me some Tau...
me too.....
Why is so many writing this? "Must buy Tau"? Am i totally imune to that kind of brainwashing? Or do i simply don't have any humor?...
I had seen Citadel's wet palettes for sale and thought it was an cool concept but not something I had to have. I still say I don't need Citadel's but after making one based on your instructions here and using it tonight I have to say it is one of the coolest and helpful tools in the bag. I was able to do work on multiple minis, laying down a basecoat of black for some chainmail and every drop of paint was used, I never had to worry about it drying up on me, never got that layer of crud on top and it even helped me improve my paint time. Thanks a ton man.
Glad to hear it, and thanks for watching!
Just an update, the homemade palette I made from this video is still better than any of the pro palettes I've bought in the intervening 9 years!
6 years on. Made one today after watching. Changed my painting life. Unreal! Thank you!
To suppress mould, add a few copper coins (1c or 1p coins) in between the layers of paper towel. Over time the coins will go green as they kill off bad stuff, but your palette should stay fresh. Wash the coins with soap to re-use them.
Interesting tip. I don’t think I’ve gotten mold before, but I’ll try it if I do. Thanks for watching!
Great Idea, Added it to my wet pallet.
1p? What am I, made if money?
It turns green from oxidation not mould
would the modern clad shield penny still work?
What's so brilliant about this is it allows for painting at a methodical pace without wasting vast amounts of paint. I'm really achieving better results thanks to this - thank you so much!
Since I started using a wet palette my figure painting has improved 10 fold. Thank you. Great watching your videos.
Thank you very much for that video. I haven't been painting miniatures since I was a teenager, around 20 years ago, and it's absolutely incredible to witness how easier it is to learn new techniques thanks to the Internet, RUclips and of course people like you.
It's a great time to be a painter. Thanks for watching!
Followed the advice in this today and made a wet palette. Cannot believe the difference in painting results already! Thanks!!
Love how you are sarcastic and your hilarious mannerisms, your channel is the reason I bought my first set of 40k models!
+erik clifton Wow, I'm glad to get someone else into the hobby. Thanks for watching!
Entertaining and informative! I am grateful to professionals like you who are willing to share their knowledge with us "newbies". Thanks for your time and effort, it's appreciated.
Thanks so much for the tip! Being the cheap-ass that I am, I bought acrylic paint in tubes, so this method is going to be pretty much essential for painting my minis. I don't even need to buy anything to make this work!
Thanks again!
Step 1: Stick it in there
Step 2: Wrap it
Step 3: Get it wet
I think these instructions are backwards.
Lol such a play on words
This is a good comment
Lube it up
Stick it in
Call it good.
Good one
Just started the hobby yesterday, picked up my first 10 miniatures and a few colours and a couple shades. Thought I'd watch these videos as I just threw down my primer.. glad I did. Learning a lot!
I’m very new to mini painting and started using a homemade wet palette last week. It’s so much easier. The only difference I did was that I did not apply the parchment before the water. I went paper towel, water and then parchment. The parchment will need a couple of minutes as it will curl up immediately but then will flatten out once it’s left alone. I find that method better to avoid unneeded water on the top. To be fair I probably don’t have as good an ability to judge the amount of water yet so it cuts that issue out for me! Loving the channel, especially the amazing painting videos by Sam! Thanks!
How have I not heard about this before??? I’ve been painting minis for nearly 30 years and this is an absolute game changer! Thanks so much!
Hey Atom! I recently started playing Shadespire, my first tabletop like game since almost 30 years (the last was the original heroquest) and you are the reason I decided to start painting. And now I have found not just a new hobby, it became a passion in a very short time. I can't thank you enough! Keep up the good work!
I paint garage kits and gunpla, not miniatures, but I can't believe I had never heard of this technique before. This is utterly genius, thank you!!!
So interesting that you made this. I've been looking into getting into painting minis. My mom recommended that I use a wet pallet. I was trying to tell her that people that paint minis don't use them. I'll have to call her and tell her that she is right, and that they do in fact work very well for this purpose. Mom's, always looking out for you. Thanks.
Mom's can be pretty smart. Thanks for watching!
Well, since it is so cheap and easy to try this out, I went ahead and built a relatively small wet palette and boy is this awesome!!! I didn't really know what to expect but it makes a world of difference. The paint does not dry out so I need much less of it. But the thing that I love most of all: the paint is soooooooo much easier to control! It works soooooooo much smoother! I feel like I am a way better painter just by changing this small thing and I love it!!!! Thank you so much for this incredible tip; it changed painting models from a chore to something I thoroughly enjoy! 😁👍
I did something similar, I used a box just like yours, but instead of a towel I actually used a thin square sponge (ones you would use for cleaning and stuff), and I put a small piece of baking parchment on top of it , after I filled it with enough water.
I was sceptical with regards to usage of wet pallet, but once I tried it - I knew for sure... no coming back to not using it. Makes painting so much easier, and my paints last much much longer !
Sponge works fine if you can find the right kind. I figured that paper towel is something that nearly anyone can find around the house, plus you don’t feel bad throwing it out if it gets full of paint. Thanks for watching!
This has been amazingly helpful i had 40 DA veterans to paint and didnt want to blow through all my green and tan paints, thankyou good sir you are scholar and a gentleman
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Great video, thanks for all the hard work! :)
This inspired to make my own wet palette. I used one empty, well washed butter container, a sponge, two layers of paper towels and parchment paper. Keeping the sponge fully wet with loads of water there, but not too much in conjuction with paper towels drawing the moisture from the sponge means I need to rehydrate my palette like once a week or alternatively, just squeeze the sponge bit.
I have no art background but I love the "zen" feeling of painting miniatures. Although I love painting, I hate how they come out. I was painting exactly how you described in the beginning of the video. You explained the link I was missing! Thank you!
I had incredible results with this. I'm a beginner painter and this has changed everything for me. I never could thin down my paints very well (details still visible but "rounded down" by the paint just a little bit) and this wet palette just made it so much easier to thin down my paint, paint my miniature and get the color I want. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Glad it's working for you. Thanks for watching!
love how calm he is even though I already do all of this I still watch him while I paint, is that weird?
GW should hire him for customer relations.
This video with the other video's that you have put out about technique has been a great help to me! After a 12 year pause I've got back into WH40k, thank you for this video and the others!
Always glad to help. Thanks for watching!
For those of us in Canada you can get all of this in Dollarama for cheap.
Thank you for the video! This was an absolute necessity for me
ive been playin 40k for a year now. i love painting minis. i came across this video on the crapper and it has changed everything i thought i knew about painting minis. thank you sooooo much for sharing this. subscribing, liking, following.
+yerbiggestfan poop Thanks, that's some high praise. Thanks for watching (and flushing).
Awesome quote at the end.. "IT WILL HELP YOUR GAME .... your painting, game" :)
Simply the best painting tip on the Internet. Period.
i don't know what mini's are, but i found this video and it rocks... i also watched a bunch of your other videos because i love looking at your face and hearing you talk... thanks handsome...
Just made my first wet palette tonight and while I didn't get to paint as much tonight as I usually do I already love it!
I am new to painting and am really excited for how this can help me. Thanks very much! Especially for showing how to make one and save some money!
Love all your videos!
I'm glad it helped. Thanks for watching!
Well, deference to some commenters who have said that they wish they had found this advice years ago, I've been painting models and figures (on and off) for 30 years. This technique is super helpful and you explain it great, but who can say for sure if I would have been able to get it or even been respectful enough to listen 'back then'. What's great is - you're doing this NOW!
So, keeping in mind that this is an old vid, answer if you wish, but have you discussed in any way how to anticipate color change due to drying? I've always compensated by experience with the material, but I don't have an understanding or a rubric to bounce my experience off of, so, although I'm getting good results, I feel that my potential is being narrowed.
Thanks again for your awesome work and for sharing it with us!
Generally paints 'dry down' which means they get darker as they dry. There's no way to be sure of how much, exactly. That's the issue. Thanks for watching!
I always try to anticipate about "a shade" darker, so I mix my paints just a TINY bit lighter than I want. I then use a toothpick to put a fine line on some white paper and because it dries so quickly on that it can tell me the color it will look when it dries. Hope that's a little helpful.
It has been a few years since I painted. Decided to brush up on my techniques and watch a bit of youtube. First time using a wet palette. Needless to say, this is a real eye opener.
+Bert Saerens It totally changed the way I paint. I can't barely paint without it now. Thanks for watching!
I have only one thing to say to you.
Thanks so much! I love my Wet Palette.
I'm glad it's helping. Thanks for watching!
I just started with miniature painting and immediately ran into the problem of paints drying on my palette. Wet palette works wonders. Thank you!
It's one of the the best things any painter can do to make their hobby better. Thanks for watching!
This is probably my favorite comment of the whole salvo, and I've read them all! Thanks to MWG Dave and the Eye of Terror, and as a fellow brother of Chaos, may Papa Nurgle give you all a bug squishy hug, and may your palette always be wet!
Years later I've found Warhammer Underworlds and I'm hooked. Never painted any mini before and only primed the starting war bands. I'm scared to death to have the paint job come out tacky and after watching this I think you saved me some heart ache. Awesome video still helping years later.
7 years later and this is still helping hobbyists everywhere
Single best painting advice yet. Thank you!!
+James Harlin Wet palette is seriously a game changer. Thanks for watching!
I had all the equipment in my house already, KNOWLEDGE is power! You are the best man! Thanks!!
Holy crap, this just changed my whole feeling on acrylics. Ages ago I used enamel (oil) which I didn't remember drying out nearly as fast and I couldn't figure out why everyone was saying that acrylics are better. Just got through painting an entire figure without the paint drying. Don't think I'll ever be able to paint without this now. I know this is an older video but thank you for making it :)
Always glad to help. Thanks for watching!
I just found this video because I want to start painting miniatures, and I must say: you are one of the best RUclipsrs I've ever seen. The sound quality, presentation, video content, getting straight to the point... awesome work! Your personality is great, too.
The strangest thing I've found about painting miniatures is that the biggest advancements in my ability always seem to come from putting down the brush for months or years at a time. For some reason, I always come back better than I left...
Same here. I started when I was 16 and got better. Stopped at 19 and started again at 26 and I was miles better. Stopped again and now I'm 33 and I'm better. Maybe as I got older I got more patient and more willing to put in the time for more layers etc.
I find my increased laziness can be passed off as patience at times....
Im exactly the same, when I was 13 (21 now) id just drybrush my marines with gunmetal and glob on flesh tone then attempt to wash them using watery black or red. Just got into it 8 years later and I have more patience and Id maturity plays a big role ie ive spent 80 quid of my hard earned money so I better take my time making mister grey pants mister blue pants
I've collected WH40k for almost 20 years now.
I have hundreds of models.
I've never painted a single one. Not fully.
Now I've started to paint (third time, actually, that I've started to paint), and I believe this will help me not to destroy my models, hang myself and burn the paints.
In that order.
Thank you so very much for this *awesome* idea.
You are a blessing. (Also the subtle dad jokes are why I subscribed.)
And I'm not even a dad. Thanks for watching!
Tabletop Minions Here from 2018. Surprise! You're a Dad!
Recently came across your channel and have been enjoying your past videos. I did want to say that I made a wet palette after watching this and I'm flabbergasted just how well it works and how much quicker I paint because of it. Thank you and keep up the great work.
This is a super helpful tutorial :) I've never tried a wet palette, but I'll definitely be trying this out :)
It's really, really helpful. You'll enjoy it, I think. Thanks for watching!
I've been thinning my paints for a while now but this technique to stop the paint drying out will be a real life saver, can't wait to try it out. Keep up the good work on the videos too!
Wait! I'm stuck!!
Where do I acquire this thing you call paper towel?
And also...where can I buy Tau?
I finally tried this today and I am AMAZED! I had been using a dry palette and often would have the paint dry before i would even be done painting the part I was working on. Now I can see my paint loss almost entirely being eliminated. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thank you very much for that. I was shocked how good it is. Amazing, I was able to paint whole Stormtrooper mini from Imperial Assault with White Scar colour and the paint did not get tacky. I would not believed it until I tried. Great and cheap;)
This video is 7 years old and it’s still super helpful!
Just made my own today after watching your video! Can't wait to try it out this afternoon! Thanks!
+VictoryLost It changed my life, painting-wise. Thanks for watching!
Almost 7 years old and still very helpful! Due to all of this quarantine I have bought some minis to paint in the next few months! First time using a wet pallet and I am very excited to get started
thanks, this channel has been invaluable as a beginner
+Jetorax I'm very glad it helps. Thanks for watching!
This is a game changer. I tried it and will never paint without it again! Thanks Uncle Atom!
I use that exact same plastic tub and parchment paper! However, I use a sponge rather than paper towels.
+Jade Prout I see more people using a sponge. I should try that out. Thanks for watching!
I use that tub myself actually. And it was only yesterday that I decided to use if as a wet palette. And then today I run across this video looking for info. The universe provides...
All this time I had a better kind of palette sitting in my kitchen cupboards and had no idea. You have sold me on the wet palette! I'll be trying it on my next mini. Thanks for this.
+theRayDog It works so well and made my painting so much better. Thanks for watching!
Must. Buy. Tau.
Why? Please tell me I dont understand
@@Griff-i-nator I think that this video was released around the time when Tau were updated.
I cant thank you enough for this video, I have been struggling along with a dry palette and drying paints and this has been a revolution, blending is so easy now and it has really improved my painting even in the hour since I made it.
all those years of dried paint...
Now is the time to start anew. Thanks for watching!
I have been painting Battletech miniatures & Historicals for years.And this has been something amazing it also has given me new insights.
Wet palette is a game changer for many. Thanks for watching!
A few months in to my new hobby that is 40k. Very helpful video!
+Darren Thompson Wet palette is really an amazing thing. It helps so, so much. Glad you're getting into it. Thanks for watching!
+Tabletop Minions I'm giving this wet pallet thing a go. Thanks for the heads up. A friend of mine has been at me to try this method for years now and I've stubbornly resisted. It's time to give it a try.
+JohnnyH1982 I'm glad that I have more influence on you than your actually real life friend does. And I'm glad you're actually going to start using a wet palette, it's really super helpful. Thanks for watching!
+Tabletop Minions haha, no problem, I'm happy to keep watching so long as you are producing. Me and my buddy hit Walmart the other day and grabbed up some of that Krylon Camouflage and he's really happy with it. He's also a frequent visitor to your channel.
As for the wet pallet, I've noticed just after a few days of use several advantages including not having to worry too hard about thinning paint down the same way I did when just using a piece of paper or a pringles top for a dry pallet. I cannot say with any certainty that there were any immediate effects to my painting quality, but the thinner paints do make edge highlights much more fluid, for sure.
I just made one yesterday following your steps. I'm a brand new painter and it makes thinning paints so much easier. I have some excess paint sitting in the container from last night, let's see how it looks when I get home from work today.
Thank you for the great videos. I really like all of your content!
+Paul Ellis Im glad you like it. Thanks for watching!
Just getting into miniature painting, and have been hearing about wet pallets constantly. Thank you for the easy breakdown!
Hi, new to painting minis. I've literally spent about a year watching all the great videos on RUclips and I've really enjoyed yours. I tried this right away. Living in northern Ohio the air is very dry right now especially with forced hot air heating. So on a basic plastic palette the paint dries really quickly. Makes it very hard. I tried this and it work great, mostly. I am using Reynolds Parchment Paper. At times, on the wet palette, the paint doesn't seem to want to mix. The parchment seems to even cause it to want separate. It makes for a great science lab to show my kids. I can open the palette a day later and what was one color is now two distinct colors. Does this happen to others? Being new, I am trying different paint manufactures, but this doesn't seem exclusive to when I am mixing paints from two manufactures. Most of my paint right now is Citadel and Army painter. I am also trying Vallejo and Reaper.
Finally, I didn't see it if you've covered it, but what do you do when you go to use some paint and it's getting thicker then when you bought it? Can you add water to thin it back down a bit? Should you ever add it to the bottle? I'd like these bottles to last a long time.
+Carl Kessler Sometimes my paints separate a bit on the palette, but it's usually if I haven't mixed them around with a brush on the parchment. If it happens, I usually just mix it back together with a brush, and problem solved. Thanks for watching!
Know this is an old post, Vallejo flow improver, cheap, get it straight into the bottle, thins the paint back down and doesn't dilute the pigment. Use it just a bit at a time
So I've been getting into Kill Team/40k over the past, uhhhh, while, and I found your videos and have really enjoyed them a ton, shared them with friends, etc, and I came across one of your more recent videos where you talked about this one. You mentioned how the quality doesn't live up to your current standards, which to be fair it doesn't, however I think even still this was a wonderful video. Maybe not on a production level, but in the same way your newer content is, which is the content and personality behind the video! Thanks for all the time and effort you put into the community, it's definitely a help to newbies and veterans alike!
I have a question
Do you switch out the parchment paper every refresh
If not what happens to the paint from before when I apply the refresh water do I just avoid it or something?
I started using a wet pallet after watching this video and it made painting my pre heresy alpha legion a hell of a lot easer, no need to continually thin my paints now.... Great Tutorial keep up the great work
Man it feels like my whole life was a lie... Need to try this
Not your *whole* life. But make sure to try it. Thanks for watching!
10 years on, this home made wet palette still works. Amazing
I am a new subscriber and I love your videos. One idea though, I think sometimes you take too much time to explain one thing that you have already made clear.
Settings -> Speed -> 1.25
Thanks for sharing this. Watched this video a couple years ago and a wet palette combined with tutorials written by pro painters has made my technique soar. And I can’t even tell you how much paint I’ve saved.
One thing I do have to add though, is if you set it down and don’t paint for a long time, throw out the old paper towel and dry it or you will grow mold. That’s happened to me and I ended up throwing away a perfectly good Tupperware container.
How often should you swap this out, or can you just replace the parchment paper and add water before you put the next piece in? If so, how often for that?
+RabidRob 42 I put in a new piece of parchment when there aren’t any more empty spaces to put paint, and then I just usually replace everything (the paper towel and water, too. Thanks for watching!
Ok awesome, thank you.
Tonight I made a wet palette for the first time and I was kind of skeptical that it would be much of an improvement, but I was wrong. It worked great, my paints stayed wet the whole time and they went on the model very smoothly. Thanks for the video.
Still useful.
I got here in 2020 by link from other your video. I start using wet palette and it really works great. When checking other videos I had wrong impression that a lot of paint is wasted. This is actually other way around, because it doesn't dry so fast I don't waste as much paint as I had in past.
Thank you for this and other videos.
Hmm I use it only for wet blendin.
It's great for regular painting, too. Thanks for watching!
Great video! Just made a wet palette tonight and you're right it was a game changer! I never realized the difference it could make.
Tau for sale!
Thank you for posting this video. I watched it probably 4 months ago when I first started painting and now while painting it came across the PC. You are not wrong this has made the greatest improvement to my painting and its amazing that it seems to be a less known "Secret" Thank you for what you do!
You're still helping people in 2019! You've just revolutionized my painting game, so thanks for this!
Josh Yaks lol me too.
I have paint wasting away right now because I don’t have a wet palette.
@@austoncarpenter4702 I was actually thinking about the sheer volume of paint I've been wasting by painting directly out of my Tamiya pots all these years!
My thanks to you and your great videos! Been struggling to get back into painting my 40K stuff after a long break, slowly finding my love of painting again and your wet palate advice has definitely knocked my paining speed up a notch! Didn't realise how much time I waste thinning down paint until I made my wet palate. So thanks again, and keep up the good work!