Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Howdy,

Have a quick question just want to get some feedback on. I haven't been painting long getting to the stage in pretty confident in thinning paints on the pallet but they seem to dry up on the pallet quick so I'm going through paint fast. Just wondering should I be dipping my brush in the water pot every time I'm ready for more paint on the brush?

Apologies if it seems a dumb question frustrating get the right flow on the brush then when I go back its started to dry and go sticky but hesitant to wet the brush and thin the paint to much.

Cheers

I would recommend you to use a wet palette:
http://www.fullborerminiatures.com/articles/wetpalette.html

This will help you with paint drying and should make your painting process much more comfortable overall.

Or buy the Privateer Press one. It comes with the wet palette and a stack sheets, and the sheets afterwards are pretty cheap (about $7 or so for several months' supply, even at the pretty quick rate that I change them).

Late addition: Wet palette all the way, whether bought or DIY (as my first was and my current is).

Paint thinning takes some practice and development of 'the feel,' regardless of how much advice you receive. I thought I was missing something for months, when I first started out. Turns out, I was just taking advice that didn't take into account the arid environment in which I painted. Counteracting the rapid evaporation gave me a HUGE advantage (or just leveled the playing field, depending on your perspective), allowing me to finally develop a sense of paint consistency vs. paint behavior and the tasks to which each dilution was suited.

The most simplified advice, without oversimplifying the the point of lying, is this: Thin as little as it takes to make the paint flow smoothly. If you're manipulating the paint any more than that, you're moving into intermediate/advanced techniques. Whichever case, a wet palette will make some things easier and others possible, where they previously weren't.