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What do you use as a paint pallette?
I dont paint
Proper artist pallette
A Tile
A CD/DVD case
Blister package plastic
Other packing plastic
Wet Pallette
Some laminated object
Other (write in)

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Made in au
Guardsman with Flashlight




Alice Springs

my thumb
   
Made in gb
Maddening Mutant Boss of Chaos






Ice-cream tub lid.

   
Made in gb
Deadly Dark Eldar Warrior





Wales

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

WHFB Dark Elves 6k
Infinity Yu Jing - Too many Tohaa - Too little
40k The Retrograde Tigers c.700 points
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Made in us
Storm Trooper with Maglight





Virginia

Paper plates.


 
   
Made in ca
Longtime Dakkanaut





Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

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

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Made in se
Dakka Veteran






Stockholm, Sweden

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?

   
Made in fr
Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman





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.

CT GAMER wrote:
Kroothawk wrote:Are you sure that pre-industrial Napoleonic times, steampunk and SciFi fit together visually? It sure is a wide stretch.

Right because a game in which hobbits with sniper rifles, Geiger's aliens,Romanesque super soliders and WWI-WWII tanks fight Anime ripp-offs and "orcs" with guns this is a stretch...

Avatar 720 wrote:There were never any missing legions, the Emperor was just crap at maths.
 
   
Made in gb
The Hammer of Witches





cornwall UK

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

   
Made in us
Mekboy on Kustom Deth Kopta






the printed side or beer boxes (yuengling boxes usually)

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Made in ca
Hardened Veteran Guardsman




Canada

Other

-Bottle caps
-Painters pallet (one metal, one plastic)
-Parchment paper ontop of wet paper towel.
   
Made in us
Hardened Veteran Guardsman





United States

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

"I pity the foo who defies the will of the Emperor!"
-Grass4Hopper 
   
Made in sg
Crazed Savage Orc




The far reaches of the universe

My desk.

Don't poke the sleeping squiggoth, he might get cranky.

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Made in gb
Pious Warrior Priest




UK

My girlfriend.
   
Made in us
Deathwing Terminator with Assault Cannon





Gillette Wyoming

I wet brush, you get some interesting results.


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Made in se
Storm Trooper with Maglight






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

   
Made in gb
Lit By the Flames of Prospero





Rampton, UK

A home made wet palette.
   
Made in nl
Paramount Plague Censer Bearer





In your wardrobe, looking for Narnia.

My keyboard.

   
Made in gb
Basecoated Black





England

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

   
Made in us
Sslimey Sslyth






Busy somewhere, airin' out the skin jobs.

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.

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Made in gb
Daring Dark Eldar Raider Rider





Somewhere in the darkness of my mind... Probably

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


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Made in dk
Growlin' Guntrukk Driver with Killacannon




Denmark

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

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Made in nz
Trustworthy Shas'vre





In a hole in New Zealand with internet access

A jam jar lid! Oh Yea!

   
Made in au
Regular Dakkanaut





Left thumb.

Warhammer, 40k, Necromunda, Historicals
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Made in gb
Black Captain of Carn Dûm





Were there be dragons....

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...

"As a customer, I'd really like to like GW, but they seem to hate me." - Ouze
"All politicians are upperclass idiots"
 
   
Made in us
Regular Dakkanaut




A Testors plastic drop cloth.
   
Made in us
Longtime Dakkanaut




Maryland

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.

   
Made in au
Utilizing Careful Highlighting





Australia

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.

Aurora SMs in 5th Ed (18 wins, 3 draws, 13 losses)

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Aurora SMs in 6th Ed (3 wins, 0 draws, 5 losses))
 
   
Made in us
Beast of Nurgle





Minneapolis

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
   
Made in us
Nurgle Predator Driver with an Infestation





The Memphis Sprawl

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.

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Made in us
Inspiring Icon Bearer






a 12 inch square piece of steel.

3000
4000 Deamons - Mainly a fantasy army now.
Tomb Kings-2500 Escalation League for 2012

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