What do you use to mix on? Tile or Pallet?

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War Griffon

New member
Ok here we go then :D

After painting for the last 25 plus years I am curious, the current trend seems to be mix/water down your paint on a tile or an old CD.

I have always mixed in one form or another before I even learnt that it was the correct thing to do, when I changed from enamels to acrylics I used to mix them up in the lid of my water jar then I moved onto painters pallets you know those ones you can get with 6 or 12 indentations.

So give me your thoughts what do you use and why?
 
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matty1001

New member
I use little squares of tin foil. One square for each colour.
Easy to move about, cheap, and just throw away once done.

I use to line an ice cube tray with tin foil to have 16 compartments, but it was just easier using little squares.
 
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fieldarchy

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I use ceramic flower palettes. I won\'t use nothin\' else. Though one got demolished on my flight back to VA. I think I need to get a new one.
 
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supervike

Super Moderator
I was using those Microtitier plates that NSA recommended (and Herb the Bitter so graciously gave me)...but I\'ve run out of those, so I\'m back to the old cheapo pallete with a big well in the middle, surrounded by little wells.

I just scrape the paint out of one or two wells, and when it gets so bad, I throw it away and buy a new one.
 
Friar

Friar

Dorks for Orks
I have 3 of the cheapo plastic daisy pots 79 cents and clean up easy nuff with hot water
 
Sukigod

Sukigod

Member
I use a stack of 4\" tiles, off white. The reusability of them is nice, just wash\'em off when done and restack. One fills up with paint, grab another off the stack.

I like being able to see the translucency through to the tile as well. Using deeper wells of the painter palette things, I\'m not able to \"see\" through the paint enough to see if it\'s thin enough.
 
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Undave

Flockwit
They use tiles at my local GW but I find that they tend to suck the moisture out of the paint and sweat it out of the other side.

Myself, I use Pringles lids. Completely non-absorbant, relatively cheap and plentiful and you get to eat the crisps too. I don\'t even need to throw them away after use as all you need to do is bend them and the paint comes straight off.

The only downside is I really hate Pringles.... Still it keeps the Mrs happy so that\'s a plus of sorts :D
 
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Shadzar

Guest
for thinning i just add watter directly to the paint pot lid.

for making my own colors i mix them on my painting surface...of course the newspaper sitting on it was gloss coated from year ago with model cars so its good to last a while and not to hard to clean while protecting the wooden surface its over.

and there is an Inspector Gadget theatre poster under that.
 
Friar

Friar

Dorks for Orks
Aye how can anyone hate pringles their sweet sweet potato-crack. If it wasn\'t for having a local potato chip plant right up the streat in pennsylvania I\'d live offa Pringles but Utz chips are the besterest.
 
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fieldarchy

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Friar, try Poore Brothers once you get to AZ. It\'s a local brand made in AZ and they are GREAT! I love their potato chips, which is actually blasphemous for me to say as I am distantly related to the Utz empire. No seriously I am . . . I didn\'t find that out until I met my birthmother (I was given up for adoption as a baby).
 
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Gussy

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So, do you pre-mix all the shades first? Since I don\'t know highlighting I just use the top of the paint pot. I guess this won\'t work if I need more than one color at the same time.
 
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veggiemanuk

Member
Wet pallet for long sessions with very dilute paint. Just take up the greese proof paper and lay another down once I run out of space.

Tile for smaler sessions, usualy detail work which requires not so dilute a paint.

Out of the pot when working with pre mixed colours that have been diluted to taste, once the session has finished I just add a couple of drops of water to the pot together with a single drop of flow aid.

The pots are pre mixed specific colours that I have made which are used for army painting, my Ultramarines have 4 pots dedicated to them, Basecoat, Main colour, first hilight and second hilight. It means that the colour is perfectly consistant throught the army.
 
Einion

Einion

New member
I mix the main colours on a tile, then transfer to a homemade stay-wet palette. Any small-scale intermediate mixes are done using the brush on the palette paper.

Einion
 
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