Recently, I have tried to make a wet palette for my Tamiya acrylic paints which I’m also using for brush painting.
Till then, I did use a regular aluminium palette from MIG for brush painting Tamiya acrylic paint and added Tamiya acrylic paint retarder to the paint.
1 part paint, 2 parts retarder.
Like with airbrushing their colors.
And this worked fine, until I realized that I’m probably taking to much paint into my brush and that I’m painting to thick layers on my figures.
Which is costing me detail on the figure.
I thought, let’s try to make a wet palette the same way as for other acrylic paints like those of Vallejo.
Instead, using alcohol instead of water because the Tamiya acrylic paint is on alcohol base.
So I bought a 1 liter bottle of Isopropanol alcohol and my mother got me a container and a sponge for this wet palette.
And I cut a sheet of baking paper on the right size for on the sponge.
So I did put the sponge in the container and I poured alcohol on the sponge and let it soak up the alcohol.
And I also left a little pool of alcohol on the bottom of the container, as the video of Quick kits on YouTube told.
So far, it seemed to be working.
However, the alcohol didn’t get through the sheet of baking paper.
Which is what I want from my understanding of the video’s I watched for the wet palette.
And it felt to me like the sponge was getting hard and stiff.
So, I waited some 15 minutes because my mother suggested that to me.
I thought, okay I do that let’s see what happens.
But what needed to be happening wasn’t happening.
The alcohol didn’t come through the baking paper.
It did get till under the baking paper, but it didn’t manage to penetrate the baking paper fully and get to the surface being able to touch the paint and moisten it.
I concluded fairly quickly that it wasn’t going to work like you and Modelbouw Krikke said.
And did put the alcohol which I could get back back in the bottle.
And I’m now going to use it instead of X-20A 250 ml thinner of Tamiya self.
And to clean my brushes with it as well, because I got more of this stuff.
And it is cheaper than Tamiya’s own thinner from which I only get a small amount for a high price.
This leaves me in a troublesome situation, because I’m now having most of my paints being Tamiya acrylic paints. And I even bought two sets of Tamiya figures to practice my figure painting skills on and to test new things out. But as I said earlier, I’m probably getting to a point I’m discovering more and I’m developing my brush painting skills more. And the Tamiya paint starts to feel like it is holding me back from advancing more in this area.
I even bought some new bottles of Tamiya paint for these figures specifically, before I realized this.
So, what am I going to do?
I was thinking to practice more with the airbrush and once the skills with this are sufficiently developed I could try and airbrush only whole figures.
Not using brushes at all to paint my figures.
Which would safe me money, but I don’t know if it is possible to do this and if it isn’t to hard for my current skill level.
The other option would be to buy new paint specifically for brush painting use.
But this would cost me more money and space.
I’m interested in AK Interactive for this and maybe even use it eventually instead of Tamiya paint and Mr. Hobby paint to airbrush with as well.
It is my longest topic yet I’ve posted here. But it was also a lot to share, hope you have read it all through to the end. And I hope you want to comment and help me out if you can.
Although I find it great for airbrushing. 
