Rectangular Mixing Palette

Green Stuff World rectangular mixing palette

A palette with wells intended for mixing modeling paints. Mixing paint in the cap of a bottle or on a scrap of foil works only until the moment you need to keep a mixed shade for longer or to prepare several tones at once. The palette solves that problem and at the same time keeps the desk in order.

Use

Paints, thinner, a wash or glazes are dispensed into the individual wells. It is practical to set one well aside for clean thinner and always to work from the lighter shade to the darker one. The palette will also serve for preparing a gradual transition, where you mix a series of intermediate steps between two extreme shades and have them all to hand at once.

Work tips

Dried acrylic can usually be peeled off a smooth palette with a fingernail or a toothpick; with solvent-based paints the matching cleaner helps. Do not use sharp metal tools, because grooves in the surface will hold pigment and from then on the palette is harder to clean. Check the chemical resistance to aggressive thinners in a small well before you start working with varnishes on the palette. Note your mixed shades down as ratios of parts, too, or you will never hit them exactly again when touching the model up.

Who it is for

• Modelers who mix their own shades
• Figure painters working with glazes
• Those who prepare gradual transitions of tone
• Anyone who wants to keep the desk in order

Clean the palette after work, so that no paint residues dry in the wells.