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Still digging out my old gear for another round of painting.

What are peoples opinions on wet vs dry palette?
I've got a home made wet palette from the last time I was painting, but I've completely forgotten everything.
Can you still use acrylic thinner on a wet palette when mixing the paint?
Does a dry palette using thinner a better option?

The stuff I have is X-20A thinner.
I also have some Winsor & Newton Acrylic Flow Improver, for love nor money, I can't remember why I bought it.

Wet vs dry is personal preference, really. I like a wet palette because I do a lot of mixing, and it's a good way to keep your paints the right level of thin. I find dry palettes a pain because the paint consistency changes over time, which can obviously affect the way it applies to your model. Not to mention it's wasteful. In my experience, people who prefer dry palettes are just people who haven't bothered to give wet palettes a proper go; not that there's anything wrong with that, but there's not really any reason I can see to use a dry palette over a wet one for general miniature painting. Whatever floats your boat though.

You can use anything on a wet palette that you could use on a dry palette; a wet palette doesn't affect anything in the paint at all apart from water content. So if it's water soluble - you can use it. And if it's not water soluble, then you can't use it with acrylic paint in the first place

Oh and keep your homemade wet palette - don't waste your money on a fancy one, they are all identical in function.

We use a mix of both, though as mentioned it's down to personal preference really.

Though our Water+ does help a lot on a dry palette by giving a nice rich, silky feel to your paints which allows you to blend quite nicely on a dry palette as you would on a wet palette.

Though it also works just as well with a wet palette, just the effect is ever so slightly reduced.

As for having experience with both, I always find myself being drawn back to a dry palette, no idea why I just could never get on with a wet palette

I gave a wet pallet a go. My problem was I don't have a level surface in my painting area so the paint was running down and getting under the sponge and/or running into other colours.

Having changed from a dry palette to a wet palette, I can honestly say it's improved my painting greatly. The paint stays wet for longer and if you want to thin it with thinners you can although water from the palette itself is more than enough to thin it. I do add some matte medium to my paint to help with the application of the paint.

At the end of the day, it's a matter of preference.

I settled on a disposable wet palette: a folded paper towel wrapped in parchment paper and held under the tap. I found it necessary because everything dries quickly in Colorado, and I don't know what I'm missing out on not having a better one. Flow aid I haven't messed with just yet and I tend to replace paints if the consistency is too far off.