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As i try to absorb any information about miniatures painting, i came across this wet palette thing.I got few question.

1.The main one :Should i use this technique for my first painting.
2.I cant decide between Valejjo and Citadel.Would be great if Valejjo is good quality, because its cheaper.
3.People say it save paint and enhance model.Is it true?
4.Should i get some special brushes(i plan to buy some cheaper from Army paint)?

You don't really need to buy one at all, to be honest. It's pretty easy to make your own. Here's a video by a Youtuber who smiles like a lunatic all the way through, but explains how to make one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DMPPqgeZKk

As for your questions,

1) There's no reason why not. It's a case of experimenting a bit when you're first starting out. You might find a dry palette easier to use, but then you might find a wet palette easier. You have to thin your paints a bit, and a wet palette kind of does that for you to an extent.

2) I've never bought one, but in general Vallejo stuff is great. Citadel is also excellent, but you do pay a premium for the GW name. Their wet palette is going to be a bit of parchment paper , a sponge, and a plastic tray. There's nothing more complicated it can be. Quality isn't really going to come into it!

3) It certainly saves paint. The big advantage is that you can close the lid when you've finished painting, and come back the next say and all your paint will still be useable. Personally, I find this is very useful when I'm mixing my own colours (which is most of the time.) Replicating a colour mix I did the day before is, it turns out, not a skill I possess!

4) You don't need special brushes for using a wet palette. Army painter brushes aren't too bad generally. If you want to really improve as a miniature painter, decent brushes are important though. You don't need to break the bank - Rosemary & Co Series 33 are as good as anything around, and they tend to be under £5 each. I'd get a size 0,1,2, and 10/0, personally. Oh, and make sure you get the short handled ones rather than the long-handled, which are about a foot long!

 feltmonkey wrote:
You don't really need to buy one at all, to be honest. It's pretty easy to make your own. Here's a video by a Youtuber who smiles like a lunatic all the way through, but explains how to make one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DMPPqgeZKk

As for your questions,

1) There's no reason why not. It's a case of experimenting a bit when you're first starting out. You might find a dry palette easier to use, but then you might find a wet palette easier. You have to thin your paints a bit, and a wet palette kind of does that for you to an extent.

2) I've never bought one, but in general Vallejo stuff is great. Citadel is also excellent, but you do pay a premium for the GW name. Their wet palette is going to be a bit of parchment paper , a sponge, and a plastic tray. There's nothing more complicated it can be. Quality isn't really going to come into it!

3) It certainly saves paint. The big advantage is that you can close the lid when you've finished painting, and come back the next say and all your paint will still be useable. Personally, I find this is very useful when I'm mixing my own colours (which is most of the time.) Replicating a colour mix I did the day before is, it turns out, not a skill I possess!

4) You don't need special brushes for using a wet palette. Army painter brushes aren't too bad generally. If you want to really improve as a miniature painter, decent brushes are important though. You don't need to break the bank - Rosemary & Co Series 33 are as good as anything around, and they tend to be under £5 each. I'd get a size 0,1,2, and 10/0, personally. Oh, and make sure you get the short handled ones rather than the long-handled, which are about a foot long!

Oh, my bad.I meant if i should use Valejjo paint or Citadel paint.

I see. Well, Vallejo paint is great. A lot of people prefer it to Citadel, actually.

I use Vallejo paints on a wet palette, it's ideal. They're also good if you want to use a normal palette and thin a paint with glaze medium. If I'm making a considerably thinner paint that would run across the wet palette I'd usually just put it on a normal palette because it isn't going to dry fast anyway, being so thin

But anyway, if you're using a paint for a long time it's great to have it on a wet palette so it doesn't dry out quickly and you can go away and come back but still use the same paint

Vallejo has one specific quality that makes it, hands down, better than Citadel: dropper bottles. With Citadel's pots, the slightest amount of paint getting in the lip of the lid can dry and prevent the lid from closing, which'll cause the paint in the pot to dry out faster than it should. With Vallejo's droppers, screw off the top, add a couple drops to your palette, screw the lid back on - very little chance of it drying out in the bottle.

1: Wet palette: yes. You'll use thinner paint (better results for a beginner), and you'll learn a lot about how the paint behaves just by mixing and playing with it on the palette.

2: Vallejo for your basic colours. Avoid their white primer, but the grey and black are fine. Add a mixing ball to Vallejo paint bottles and they are much easier to use.

Read this before you buy a huge number of different paint colours: http://ordinarygaming.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/color-theory-tutorials-why-didnt-i.html

3: Wet palette and dropper bottles both are good ways to save paint.

4: It takes a while to learn how to look after a brush properly, so starting with synthetic brushes is fine. If you can, try to have at least one brush made with kolinsky sable hair. I recommend Rosemary & Co Series 33 size 1 or 2. They may look big, but they will better for detail work than any synthetic brush no matter how small. This is because they maintain a better shape and the paint flows off the brush better.