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my thumb

Ice-cream tub lid.

A piece of newspaper that has become stiff due to all the paint drying on it.

Paper plates.

I like to mix on a wet pallet but I like to paint from a piece of paper.

I find it way easier to control moisture on a slice of paper

How do you mean "paint from a piece of paper"? Do you use the paper to remove excess paint from the brush before applying it to the model?

i'm really cheap, so if i can't find some scrap plastic, i'll use the underside of the 25mm bases. Just a coat of black after to hide all evidence of my having been there.

Thumb - yeah I use my thumb sometimes too - and my laptop still has blobs of paint on it because I was painting and streaming at the same time

the printed side or beer boxes (yuengling boxes usually)

Other

-Bottle caps
-Painters pallet (one metal, one plastic)
-Parchment paper ontop of wet paper towel.

Old ceramic plate that doesn't match the rest of our dishes.

My desk.

My girlfriend.

I wet brush, you get some interesting results.

I just flip a base upside down and use them as a pallette

A home made wet palette.

My keyboard.

I use an old side-plate, although it's more paint than plate today.

I use a kitchen cutting board exactly like this one except it's white plastic...



I've used it for the last 15 or so years. Paint and either peel the dried paint off or prime over the whole thing if you want a clear pallet.

Works great.

i voted tile, but its more like a round plastic saucer.

The Defenestrator wrote:Old teacup saucer. It works like a charm, though it has probably half an inch in caked paint by now; all hard as a rock.

Me too. I need to start using the bottom of it more so I can get it completely covered in paint

A jam jar lid! Oh Yea!

Left thumb.

I use a cheap china saucer (nicked from the cupboard :/) which I havnt cleaned for about 2 years so the ridge in the middle that holds the cups in place no longer exists as the paint is at the same level...

A Testors plastic drop cloth.

Homemade wet palette:

Take a plastic container, put down some cut-to-size paper towels, and wet them enough that a tiny bit of water collects when you tilt it. Then put freezer paper on top.

Voila - a perfectly usable wet palette. I've had paint stay good for up to a week.

Ice cube tray works awesome for me for years now. Each little cube is a major colour over time, so I have my foundations my metalics and so on. Because they are deep rather than wide, my paints dont dry quickly and if they drain back to the bottom when I mix with water or re-water them if I have a big batch of a single colour. Would never change, ice cube tray is the way forward for painting.

I use a sheet of plasticard. That way I can write my thoughts on it when working, cut on it, mix my palette, whatever, and be safe in the knowledge that my desk will remain safe

-Nikolakhs

I'm all about my future terrain projects I'll never get to, and I save the blister packs off of everything. They make awesome palettes, as do the lids of Grizzly dip cans (don't hate, at least I quit smoking). My current heavy use piece of crap to paint from is actual a 4"x5" piece of quarter inch blue foam board. It was on my desk to be made into some ruin or other and I started mixing nurgle paints on it. Still using it after four months.

a 12 inch square piece of steel.