Fidget Popper Paint Palettes are SO 2023. 5+1 Upgrades!
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2024
- Miniature painting with a silicone fidget popper palette has become the go-to way of using Speedpaints and Contrast type paints, but were you ale to find a white one? I'm not painting my minis using a fidget popper palette shaped like Dinosaur and rainbow coloured palettes make your hues look all wrong.
So, if you can't find a white coloured fidget popper palette then this video is for you. The State of Play looks at 5 alternative options for a silicone paint palette that wont break the bank.
And, throws in a great recommendation for a dry brush palette that requires no effort on your part, whatsoever.
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Your channel is absolutely brilliant. I love your approach. Methodical, scientific, analytical and reflective. Really awesome.
You missed sarcastic. 🤣🤣 Thanks! I guess I just suffer the same stuff we all do.
@@thestateofplay2023 I vote for the sarcasm, though it is well enough done to probably classify as satire.
@@thestateofplay2023 honestly, as a fellow Brit I feel sarcasm is just our normal form of conversation 🤣
With the choice of governments we have available - is it any wonder?!
I really enjoy this down to earth content. Lego, silicone trays, and fewer tantrums - this speaks to me
"you've spent 2023 scouring the world for a decent white colored fidget popper." You've been spying on me! Where's the camera?? Leave me alone!!! (and keep up with the videos)
🤣🤣 You, me and a million others I think!!
Me too!!!
Guilty as charged
Same
I just posted on Army Painters Facebook Group page about this a week or so ago. the fact that no one has a WHITE one in stock!!! army painter should just make a white fidget popper and sell it. :)
Dollar store plastic cutting boards are good for texture palettes as well. Quick blast of primer and you have a lightly rough, flat surface.
Good shout! But I guess your dollar store has better stuff than mine. 🤣
I've settled on the yellow fidget popper - given I only use speedpaints for basecoats and only sometimes, approximate colour is just good enough for my taste. Great findings in video though, so thanks!
No problem. When you move to washes and glazes, you may need an upgrade. Not for colour. For space! 👍🏼
@@thestateofplay2023 Well, I don't use washes and make glazes on the wet palette (studio XL from RGG), so I will be fine 😃
Gonna steal the Lego idea thanks been wanting a dry brush pallet.
Go for it! 👍🏼😜
The LEGO drybrush palette was absolutely mindbogglingly simple and brilliant!
I like simple. Stops me from having to think too much. That hurts my head. 🤣🤣
@@thestateofplay2023 I can relate. I don't paint well with a headache.
I don't paint well without one either, but you get my point 😅
I feel like that amount of sharp edges will quickly ruin any dry brush though
If your LEGO has sharp edges you might want to return it. That’s not very kid safe. 🤣🤣
@kolosmenus I can recommend DUPLO if you're afraid of hurting your brush. Much safer.
Besides, Drukhari have a lot of sharp edges too. Should we not paint those?
Okay, that lego idea is genius. (I’m sure I can smuggle one away from the kids 😬)
Smuggle? Don’t lie - you mean STEAL. 🤣🤣
I'm here for "party pooper popper pallet".. all day
…I’ll bring drinks and snacks!!
Yer man absolutely nailed it every time. Amazing.
🤣🤣
Silicone Baking Mats? You mad genius! I have now ordered some of those!
Great for making cookies too! I mean, we all need snacks when painting right?! 🤣
As somone who just ordered my fidgetpopper yesterday, but loves baking, i'll grab another choclat form for the hobby, next time im doing some shopping.
And they can be used for both!!
I use a small canvas board as a drybrush palatte. I find it has enough texture while being consistent. It was a quid or so with a frame.
There’s loads of alternatives. I agree. Coarse sandpaper works too. I guess I was offering solutions so people didn’t spend hours gluing sprue bits to a surface when, as you say, there’s quicker wins.
Cork tile, used commonly in basing, works well as a texture pallet. It's slightly absorbent so it works especially well for the dampening pad and cleaning methods.
That’s true. But then you’ve used up your basing material that costs more than a cheap pack of “not really Lego”. 🤣🤣
@@thestateofplay2023 not gonna lie. I was unprepared for just how cheap the knock off lego baseplates are. Touche my friend!
🤣🤣🤣 yeah for the size you get they’re dirt cheap.
Awesome ideas again. Thanks for sharing!
Cheers!
I had the same problem when looking for a silicone white poppit couldn't find one anywhere, then I had the idea about an ice tray when i was in boyes, but couldn't find one, so i gave up. I didn't think about food mould trays though, that last one looked brilliant. And i didnt know about silicone mat if nuln oil spilt on it i could simply slide all back in, ace videos as always. Thanks.
Go! Raid the cooking aisle!! I have your back!
Your fidget popper experience exactly matches my own and why I decided to not get one
Yeah I tried my kids ones and wasn’t really a fan. Hence the upgrade.
I certainly gave up looking for the white fidget poppers however I mostly just use a wet palette these days
Oh hey fellow RUclips man!! I recognise that logo! Yeah, I know what you mean. I mostly use a wet palette but I stopped using it for metallics (due to quick overthinning), washes (coz it spreads out too much) and speedpaints (as the properties change). A fidget popper seemed like a great option until I stole a rainbow one from my kids and realised I hit a brick wall on colour accuracy and ability to add loads of medium for a glaze.
Major props! Other than the actual suggested products given here (which I want to say are sheer genius of the _why didn't I think of that?_ kind) the idea of breaking down a need to its most basic requirements is SOOO valuable.
Years ago, before I started a far-longer-than-anticipated hiatus from the hobby, I did exactly that to reverse engineer wet pallets; the result wasn't perfect by any means, but still a couple of orders of magnitude better than working on the Perspex sheet I'd been using as both mixing surface and palette since, um, 1980 😎
Oh man, I thought I’d been doing this a long time! Bravo!!
Men from the IRS are still looking for Mrs C.Litor (in the US) to this day apparently.
They’ll never find her. She’s gone deep, deep behind the curtains, in a hole. They’ll never g-spot her.
Brilliant - as always!!
Thanks Peter!
Japan lucked out. Never got inflated.
Bought a white pencil case. Both sides are usable. And no unicorns in sight.
🤣🤣 nice one. Although the wells are still too small for washes and glazes.
Man there is SO much more utility in this video than what I expected! Great job, dude!
Hmm, I try to make all my videos with utility…I must be doing something wrong. 🤣 Thanks Mate!
LOL great video! Great advice and the sarcastic humor was a treat.
Sarcastic? I was aiming for modern day irony. Fail! Back to the drawing board. 🤣
Wow thank you and youtube's algorythm for having bring me to watch your video!
Did RUclips MAKE you watch my video? 🤣🤣 I’ll have words….😜
One thing I’d like to add Silikon forms are also very good for brush on prime. Getting that off a normal palette is hard obviously but from Silikone you can just peel it off.
Oh, I’d never thought of that. I’ve never used brush on prime, but I imagine it may contain acetone which would melt plastic palettes.
@@thestateofplay2023 The primers would melt plastic miniatures if they did. I've used Vallejo model range primer as well as their airbrush primer as brush on primer which works fine (especially for smaller sets/pieces like shields where bothering with spraycans is not worth it) and scratching it off normal palettes is a pain in the back side.
@@HistoryandDice Ah no, they don't contain enough acetone to melt the miniature. My bad description there, sorry. I thought they'd have enough to adhere and bond to the plastic. Pretty much why its harder to strip Citadel primer. They're made with a base of acetone.
At the beginning of the video I was really eyeballing my son's popper thing and asking myself if he'll really miss it.
Psst! They don’t miss them for weeks. Then boy, will you get shouted at. 🤣
I just started painting minis a few months ago and made a wet pallet out of an altoids tin and a t shirt. It's worked great. For a dry pallet I just got one for 1$ at doller general
Those are great solutions! Over time as you progress I’d guess size and space on your palette will need to grow. 👍🏼
@thestateofplay2023 I thought of that and I found a metal cigar tin and have that on standby
Another one to consider are silicone chair leg caps
But don’t those usually have indents moulded into the bottom where paint could get stuck?
chocolate molds is where i ended up , they are great and the come in loads of sizes
Great minds think alike!
Excellent video. Never thought about aome of the items in that way. The almost Lego for drybrush pallet was eye opening.
You should try to look at any item as a potential hobby item. That’s probably how the first bank robber put stockings over his head. I bet his bank heist workmates thought he was crazy!! 🤣🤣
Excellent information,thank you SOP.
You’re very welcome
I really have no issue using the multicoloured ones (though I did get a less fancy-shaped one than the ones the kids had), if I put washes / contrast paint in there it's to use immediately and the size makes them rarely last for other usage anyway. The colours I use are never close enough that I would mix them up. If I need more, or a mixture, I'd use a tiny throwaway lidded pot, (about a centimeter diameter and height), or actual dropper (for big mixes).
A lot of tools really depend on how different people paint. I tend to mix and make up washed and glazes so a popper isn’t big enough. And I’d end up spilling little pots everywhere! 🤣
I use a mostly single color one, it has some swirls in it. I generally use it in a similar manner as you. I'm also colorblind I was never going to be able to tell which one was turquoise and which was purple anyway.
Love the idea for the lego dry brush pallette
Yup, much quicker than spending time gluing one together
I was literally searching for a white fidget popper today. After two hours of search I found them 15€ with 20€ shipping.
You saved me a lot of frustration (again). Thanks man :)
Happy to help!
Great idea with the Lego! I often find I either have too much or too little on my brush when dry brushing. This takes out most of the guesswork.
Yeah it’s great. Just keeping repriming the Lego over and over. 👍🏼
I bought mine in early 2023, a 6x6 white square, that was part of a two-pack with a rainbow one for $5.99 on Amazon. It's been out of stock since the summer. But, in early 2023 it was entirely possible to buy a white, square, decently-sized popper for a reasonable price.
While that one is out of stock now, I have a hexagon shaped off- white one in my cart for $7.99 right now and a circular white and black two-pack for $15.99. They exist.
Shame it’s harder now, as you say. Still, depends how you paint. The wells just aren’t big enough for washes and glazes.👍🏼
@thestateofplay2023 - I disagree. I use them often for washes and glazes. But I am not the type to slop washes all over the model. To each their own. I've been using poppers for painting since 2022. I started using travel Keychains with 9 tiny wells. I didn't "upgrade" to my white popper until early 2023, and I still use it.
Great tips!! Thanks!
Not a problem!
I only used my multicolored fidget popper as a pallet when i wast painting away from home, like in the hobby store.
Its easy to transport, easy to clean and i use opaque paint so i have had no problems at all seeing what color i had in them.. I also made sure i only took mines that needed their first flat colors.
So if you are a painter that also paints on the go i would still say they are quite good :)
I agree right up until the point you want to make a glaze or wash. Then popper wells just aren’t big enough and whatever transparency you’re trying to gauge is impossible. 👍🏼
Well I didn spend the entire year, I was lucky and got the last big round white one the shop had 😊
So what you’re saying here is its your fault? You bought the last one….🤣🤣
Fantastic step up, back of the net once again. 👍
GOAAAAAAALLLLLL! 🤣🤣🤣 If only I could kick a ball straight….
Brilliant! Just brilliant!
Yes, but enough about me. How was the video? 🤣🤣
@@thestateofplay2023Fair enough :) The copy and subject matter are on point and top notch. I have no notes there. The delivery is a tad forced, a bit too much like reading from the script. The visuals and editing are very good. The sound quality from the mic could be better, is a bit on the tinny side. The very subtle music is super nice. Summary: Room for improvement in some areas, nothing that's disturbing in any way, and perfectly fixable. The hard things, you've already nailed. Will watch again. Subscribed.
🤣🤣 well my joke backfired. Seriously though thanks. I can fix most things but delivery. That’s how I talk. 😢
@@thestateofplay2023 No hard feelings. I'm here to stay.. now I'll just go and mix up some paints with medium!
Hahahaha they so do love transparent storage boxes! Wife has the exact same ones 😂
I know right! Someone had a go at me about it but…..it’s true! 🤣🤣
Great Video, I actually found that the Football fidget poppers are white and black only on one side but all white on the other.
Still have the other limitations of small wells but still dirt cheap because they are not specifically "white"
Thanks mate! Yeah size - that age old problem. 🤣🤣
@@thestateofplay2023 the chocolate mold also got me thinking, my wife has some cake pop molds she never used that are of similar size and might be a cheaper alternative
Go for it. But I’d bet as soon as you use it - she gets the urge to bake.
For a while now, I have been using the disposable containers that contact lenses come in. They are a decent size, easily washable, they have a little handle for when you are using them.
Sounds great. I can’t get contacts in or out so I don’t have any sadly. 🤣
I stopped painting over a year ago.. just got back into it.. heard about the poppers.. got mine 2 days ago. its big.. and a light beige color and I absolutely love it. clean up is so easy. wells are more than big enough for me.
Poppers do work well. It’s only when you need more paint or large quantities of wash or glaze that you run into issues. 👍🏼
I had tried the ice cube tray one but they came with a tinted blue base so it wasn't ideal. The wells were also much bigger than I needed. The chocolate sheet is much better of an idea.
Yeah, I agree.
This isn't about silicon palettes but more about tools and such in general, the hardware store is a place a lot more miniature painters should visit, there are a lot of nice tools and bits there for us for fairly reasonable prices.
I agree. A tool is a tool no matter which store you get it from.
You got a Like for Mr. C Litor (US) alone! 😁
Yes!! You’re literally the first person to notice! Well done!
Excellent video
Thank you!
Yeefunjoy Push it and Pop Bubble, its a football, but it is white only on the backside 🙂
Good shout! Although it still suffers from lack of space. 👍🏼
I guess I was lucky when I found a gray hexagonal popper on Amazon for $7.
Yes but depends on how much paint it holds
Let's hope this goes viral too..but not before my purchases.
You may already be too late. Choco moulds are already sold out. 😭
@@thestateofplay2023 I know😥
Man…I’m going to stop recommending things!
@@thestateofplay2023 you better be joking. Please keep up the good work.
Another great video - and you still have the best extro in the business!
Thanks man. My extro was suggested by someone…. called Kevin. 😜
I remember the Tabletop Minions video that suggested the use of fidget poppers as palettes but like you, couldn’t find a white one like the one Uncle Atom used. When he gave it a Product of the Year award at the end of last year he provided a link to some on Amazon but even these weren’t white, the closest being a light beige. After a lengthy search online the nearest I could get was half white and half blue. It cost £1.75 with free postage and is a little bigger than I expected - about the diameter of a CD rather than coaster - and has 28 wells in total, 14 of them usable. Before I found it someone suggested spraying a coloured one with white paint, though I imagine this would have to be done before every use as it would no doubt flex off along with the rest of the paint.
In another video Uncle Atom described silicone palettes produced by Turbodork. These have six relatively large wells and a mixing area but are quite expensive (£15 in the UK from Exit 23 Games) and, confusingly, are available in black as well as white. I subsequently found very similar items on eBay after searching for ‘silicone palette’ for much less. One version comes with a lid.
Yeah, you can spray them like a drybrush palette as that paint would also “pop off”. I guess with these things it depends how you paint. If you just need a few drops for one coat and done painting then any colour would do. But for any more advanced level painting the well are too small and rainbows get in the way! 🤣🤣
Cracking video - some great little tips there that’ll definitely be utilising- keep it up 👍🏼
Thanks mate!!
Fantastic video, thank you!
Cheers!
Thanks for the Good ideas
Always!
Wait what? Makeup isle? Will be looking for that video. Could not find white fidget poppers so will look for silicon choc molds now.
🤣🤣🤣
*Slaps forehead* Lego! Of course!
Gotcha! Boy our brows hurt in this hobby, don’t they!
@@thestateofplay2023 Sure do! My brow, and my back. Gotta work on my painting posture.
Indeed!!
Going to dollar tree to see if they have any generic off brand Lego-ish flats!
Good luck!
I'd love to know the reason why women love transparent storage boxes so much. My Mrs won't stop buying them, we have more storage than we know what to do with!
Funny you should mention it. Someone just had a go a me and said I was so 1923! But of course we now live in a world where feelings apparently trump facts. Oh well! Guess they didn’t know plastic was invented for wider use in the 1970s.
But on your point, I have no clue. As a bloke I can just remember what’s in the box. I don’t need it to be see through.
Superb
Thanks mate!
I just use empty yoghurt pots. My kids use loads, and a 10 second clean with the dishes and they work great
Smart plan. Now if I could just get my kids to eat yogurt….
i bought a fidget popper football, pretty much everything is white
I’m sure there’s a joke in there somewhere. But it’s 2024, and I’d probably get cancelled…..
I just use some old display protection foil I originally bought for a tablet but that got delivered bent and as such wasn't usable as a pallete. It's pretty good tbh.
That sounds pretty good! I hope you got a refund but kept it anyway! 🤣
@@thestateofplay2023 yeah yeah, they sent me some more foil which wasn't bent, it all worked out well. 👍
Oh good!
Thanks for making this! I managed to get a fairly normal, mostly white with some grey streaks round one with random ears!😂
Haha! I bet it looks ‘the business”!
I ended up buying a white ghost shaped one around Halloween last year! 😁
Thanks for your amazing content!
And now you can celebrate Halloween all year round! 🤣🤣
I lucked out with a fidget popper listed as a 'Baseball Pop It Fidget Toy'. They're comfy to use. The 'pop' part makes it easy to pop out the paint.
I might upgrade to the chocolate mold, though. It's hard to mix colors in a fidget popper.
Yes they were great until you wanted to do anything with more than two drops.
Cool 🖌
Cheers!
I actually got the set Adam listed on Amazon and they've been great & just large enough for most mixes. I will steal that idea for a drybrush palette though!
Totally. I guess it depends how you paint really what is useful to different people. 👍🏼
ngl I just waited a month for a white popper to ship and it works fine. Can fit around 10-15 drops for thinning when needed. If I'm gonna be working with bigger mixes them I have a lollipop silicon mold that, whelst entirely pink in colour, works fine.
The poppers not being able to holda super amount of paint is a downside, but most of what you work with is a few drops at most, white for eyes, yellow shoulder pad trim, ect. If i'm base coating it just goes strahgt onto a plastic pallete. a silicone try might be a good replacement for the clear plastic one I've been using for a year.
As for spilling nuln oil and other washes? Transfer them to propor dropper bottles, far easier to work with
Lol. I guess you missed my transferring Citadel paints video. 🤣
I’d usually agree but try painting the cloak of Ushoran with 15 drops in a fidget popper. 🤣
@@thestateofplay2023 you can just add more as needed :), and yeah, only vid from you I've seen 😅
Cheers for the ideas 👍
Did wonder if a glue gun would be able to seal up the ice trying holes
It might. But paint might stick to it. I wondered if it could just be melted together with a soldering iron? 🤔
Thanks for the great video! A baking mat for dogtreats was the winner for me. Plenty of room for the same price of a small chocolate form.
🤣🤣🤣👍🏼
Nice video. Thank you.
Thanks
I too spent an age sourcing a fidget popper to have the same issues, genius with the baking tray idea.
If I may share my own unconnected idea?
I've been using UV activated glue, wife does her own nails and suggested UV curing nail building material for sculpting. Much like green stuff it doesn't stick to your hands, its gel like, totally clear, and cures in a minute under UV light, so you can sculpt, fill, what ever, but you don't have to wait hours for it to cure before the next phases of sculpting.
I knocked up a couple of clear water weird for dnd today and some gibbering mouthers, cause they are simple to make.
Will take more practice, but so far I'm calling it a success.
The other little trick I like is for edging figures bases... perminant black chisel tip marker. Fast, cheap, clean, and very robust.
Great suggestions man! Love ‘em!
Ali express "15 cavity flat round silicone cake mold" for 3 or 4 US$. And even better the bottom is flat. 30 cm by 17cm
Yeah those are huge. And whilst an option, you don’t want flat, you want rounded. This keeps it in a pool and stop it from drying out quickly. 👍🏼
Man, my best kept secret is out... not reallybany long time terrain maker raids the cooking and baking isles
baking supplies are amazing source of tools, from rolling pins to cookie cutter shapes, to icing bags, meat grinders or vertical hand-held blenders
🤣🤣 I get why most of those items, but the meat grinder has me concerned about what io earth you’re doing to poor miniatures.
I got excited as I had the same problem trying to find a useable fidget popper and gave up as well. Went to order the chocolate mould only to find out it's now unavailable. I don't know why I didn't think of it as I have some metal ones already and have a lot of silicone mats for use with milliput, green stuff, polymer clay and airdry clay.
edit: Just found Zuvo Silicon Muffin Tray 12 Cups - Non Stick Baking Trays for Cupcakes & Brownies - (23x31cm) Red Baking Moulds for Muffin
Silicone - only $5.36 at the moment
With silicone it's always best to look ion the cooking section rather than in crafting as the same thing in crafting will be twice as much. My tip is to always look for the item in the section with the biggest audience... Artist instead of model making.. Building supplies for knives and steel rules etc.
I totally agree with you!!
I do indeed run out of fingers when sealing the shower!
Not just me then. I knew it!!!
Me too!
I actually have one of the rubber sealant scrapers. Still use fingers though….
The mold one has me thinking. I like drybrushing. Hate wasting paint from wiping the brush. Wonder if you could rig a silicon drybrush palette to recover the excess.
The problem is it’ll still dry. It just won’t stick. I tried on my baking mat.
@@thestateofplay2023 That's a shame, but I appreciate you trying!
I dare you to say "Fidget Popper Pallette Party" 5 times fast....
Awesome video by the way. great recommendations on new items, especially the baking chocolate round molds.
You don’t wanna know how many failed attempts at saying that got cut out of the video….🤣🤣🤣
@@thestateofplay2023 I can only imagine, mate. Haha.
My white fidget popper pallet is coming next week!!! You couldn’t have told me this six months ago?
It took 6 months for delivery?! Was it a while fidget popper palette party pooper Kickstarter? 🤣
I think I will stick to the wet palette over a fidget popper. I would use some of these for storing painting tools. I would get one of those squares for dry brushing.
cool! Wet palettes aren't great for Army Painter speedpaints. For some reason they leak through and can dilute too much.
@@thestateofplay2023 I never had a problem with over diluting or any kind of leaking.
I found white fidget poppers on ebay for £1.49, I bought two of them and they're perfect. The sad news is that the shop doesn't appear to exist anymore. Damn!
And in a few years when your fingers turn green due to toxic popper poisoning don’t come crying to me. 🤣🤣 glad you got some, but for me, the poppers aren’t big enough for mixing glazes and washes.
lego.... why didnt i think of this.. thankyou
Sometimes when things stare us in the face, we just don’t see it. 👍🏼
@thestateofplay2023 and a channel with ingenuity like this helps jolt or rejolt our own creative sparks. Thanks again and keep up the good work. 👍
P.s you just know I'm raiding the boys legobox tonight 😆
Brilliant ideas. Likely will drive the price of more of them up but that cant be helped. ;-)
Cheers!
Oh I’m sure they’ll be out of stock soon. I have a habit of causing that!
Legebiksen dk has a baseball shapen one without print on the backside.
👍🏼
I get that you want bigger wells to mix with, but large wells means your paint dries up quicker due to the larger surface area. Nice vid though.
Tell that to the speedpaint I put in them. It took 3 hours to dry just so I could film the peeling it off footage. I went and watched Rebel Moon while I waited.
Probably should have just watched the paint dry….🤣
Try silicone wax seal trays, about 0.5 deep but useful for some paints.
I looked at those but thought they might not have been deep enough. In hindsight they’d probably work well.
@@thestateofplay2023 Yes, a bit shallow for washes and glazes. Why they make chocolate moulds in brown leaves you wondering on the designers thought patterns. Lets make a mould the same colour as the product just so you cant see if its clean!
🤣🤣 I think the brown ones are oven safe. And the White ones are for refrigerators. But I’m no culinary wizard…
hmm, didn't really see the appeal of the popper thing as a palette. Not sure I'm sold on the idea yet. Maybe I'm okay about the amount of cleaning I have to do. I am going to be painting up some fairly textured minis soon, that I was planning using some variation of slapchop on, so the lego dry brush palette might be useful, which as you mention it, I had kind of forgotten about from the other video.
Haha! I was right. Things get lost in videos unless it’s about only one thing. 🤣🤣
After watching Uncle Atom's video (I have subscribed to his channel for a few years) I did finally manage to find a couple of the off-white poppers before they went up in price too far, but only after having bought a party pack of keyring sized rainbow poppers! Not having kids, I wasn't able to "appropriate" a pastel coloured unicorn version 😳. As I use a wet palette most of the time I don't use these very often and usually only for very small amounts of paint anyway so the keyring size is fine and and effectively disposable. Not very environmentally friendly I know, but hey. As you point out, your preferred solution has also massively increased in price, so likely the only advantage it has over the poppers is the well size, if that is important. My only question is to do with your Lego dry brush palettes - if you are just going to use them to remove excess paint from your dry brushes, why do you have to paint them first?
Lego is too smooth and glossy so paint doesn’t come off the brush properly. Priming with the same model paint let’s it work exactly as it will on a model.
1:56 You might want to contact AP customer service about the faulty Nuclear Sunrise with the dark flecks in 👍
Also, the AmazonOnelink for the chocolate moulds doesn't work ☹
I did. They didn’t get back to me so I bought a new one. I kept the old one because the grit in it is actually quite a cool effect.
I think the chocolate moulds are sold out and onelink is always a bit iffy
Your terrain creation - and free release of the actual files for patreon supporters ought to be the best thing you do for us
Your unique work breaking down colour mixing with all you've learned in graphic design and printing ought to be the best most practical thing you do when so many others have tried. That's so utterly true of the totally practical - Iwata and H&S should put a slip of paper in the box with the URL and pay you a small wad for clearing their hotline queues - airbrush guide
BUT your reviews are probably what you're best at, so clever and complete (they suit your wry delivery perfectly) and how many other channels are trying to do it literally half as well
Gold star with oakleaves and a nice big warm jumper to your fake wife (and fondest regards to your real one - tell her she should be holding up the rainbow unicorn fidget poppers and looking disapproving lol, she'd be an immediate sensation)
Wow, well said! I'm new to the channel and I learned a lot from your comment about the wealth of stuff I need to go back and delve into, kudos and thanks 👍
If I die. I’d like you to write my obituary. At least I might sound a bit more lively and interesting than I actually am!
Glad your enjoying the content!
@@thestateofplay2023 Sorry m8 that was your obituary, your fake wife's Bulgarian ex-KGB lover has paid me to assassinate you.
I've decided on the old frozen spider in the underpants trick, warm up, wake up, aaaaaaaw, doesn't he look peaceful.....?
The first part of your video, where you describe using multi colour fidget poppers describes painting as a colourblind person perfectly.
Really? I had no idea. I thought colourblindness just switched reds and greens?
@thestateofplay2023 it's more a question of colours getting muddied up. I can look at certain colours and not know whether they're green, red, brown, or grey.
I’ll help. If it smells - it’s green. If it’s leaking from your skin - it’s red. If you have to flush it - it’s brown. If it’s grey - it’s probably just the U.K. weather.
@thestateofplay2023 doesn't the brown one smell, too? Or is it just my diet?
Depends what you wash it in….
Ofc the Chocolate mould is now sold out 😅 . Any alternatives for the UK? As it does seem perfect. They have others on Amazon but I suspect they’re for massive spheres.
I haven’t found any alternatives on Amazon but trying any store that sells baking stuff.
I need that swatch paper (1:54)! Where can I get it? Great videos as always, I love your humor, keep up the great work!!
The paper for testing paint? It’s on my Patreon channel. 👍🏼
Great tips video. Luckily, I won't have to buy anything to incorporate these into my usable work items.
So you’re stealing them from your kids and your kitchen then…🤣🤣
@thestateofplay2023 Kitchen and my own collection. I use Legos to make mockups and mold frames for silicon mold making.
I did that once and left it in my room to use again. Then the kids took it apart…🤣
@thestateofplay2023 I'm old and my youngest is 18. So I can get away with it now! 😁
Is it really so hard to just wipe out a plastic dry pallete? I use like one or two wells on my six well pallette, i just wipe it out once i finish with that color then move on. Maybe im just missing something
It depends how you paint. I can use upwards of 16 wells on one model. Washes, glazes, metallics as well as mixed speedpaints. I can also paint into the early hours and don’t want to clean immediately. Come back in the morning and the that paint is dried on. Coming off only with isopropyl alcohol and a good cleaning session.
I can leave a silicone palette for days without cleaning. When I do - it literally just peels off in seconds.
If you like cleaning. Then it doesn’t matter what you use.
I legit use a plastic A4 sheet I got from Amazon, I've had it for years, and i need to get the paint off i just bend the plastic sheet and it just peels off 😬
I tried that but when I made a wash out of speedpaint it just spread out too quickly and dried fast. 😢
1 week ago, I bought a 6" x 12" 48 mini cube Silicone Ice Cube Tray from the $Dollar Tree$ (great minds think alike I guess;-)
Great minds indeed!!!
[Checks out the chocolate mold]
"Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock. "
You seem to have done it again :P
I might just never speak again….🤣
@@thestateofplay2023 Heh, no worries, after a quick check there's many other sellers with what seems to be the exact same one, all seem to come from Shenzen too so i guess some company there made a million of those or something, hopefully we won't be able to crash that market for now :P
Give it time…..🤣