Servo Skull Paint Palette

[excelite]

When I recently relocated back to the EU it turned out that those poppers were quite hard to find in plain white… in the Us no issue at all, but here… 

 

depending on the price it might actually solve my issue, as I tossed my old ones to reduce the stuff I had to take back over …

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

Love it. 

 

Totally unexpected but a welcome surprise. 

[Madao]

 

To anyone who's even considering getting this, please do yourself a favor and google "wet palette". 

There are many comments like that in this thread, so sorry for picking only this one.

 

I have dry, wet and silicone pop-up palettes and all of them have their uses (although I use dry one rarely). Wet palettes are great for usual acrylics, but are bad for metallics (in my experience) and useless for contrast/speed/... paints and inks - this is where a silicone pop-up palette shines. I wouldn't buy this servo-skull one,  because I prefer deep wells, which keep the contrast paint usable longer, before it dries enough to become condensed and sticky. If it is not a requirement for you, then it is a nice palette and I recommend everyone to get a silicone one, either from GW (it is as good as any of their overpriced products) or from anywhere else.

Edited October 2 by Madao

[MithrilForge]

Jesus GW … how about making models that people have been waiting ages for instead of stupid ideas like this …

if it was dirt cheap it’d probably be ok for some painters, but this is GW …so  it won’t be worth the price they’ll charge … 

[DuskRaider]

Well this is certainly one of the GW products of all time. 

[m0nolith]

 

There are many comments like that in this thread, so sorry for picking only this one.

 

I have dry, wet and silicone pop-up pallettes and all of them have their uses (although I use dry one rarely). Wet pallettes are great for usual acrylics, but are bad for metallics (in my experience) and useless for contrast/speed/... paints and inks - this is where a silicone pop-up pallette shines. I wouldn't buy this servo-skull one,  because I prefer deep wells, which keep the contrast paint usable longer, before it dries enough to become condensed and sticky. If it is not a requirement for you, then it is a nice pallette and I recommend everyone to get a silicone one, either from GW (it is as good as any of their overpriced products) or from anywhere else.

All fair points.

Personally I've switched to a wet palette years ago and never looked back.
I should state that I haven't really used metallics nor inks for a while now, so me not taking those into account was my mistake and the points you made about them were all valid. 

That's not to say that I won't one day return to using those, its just that I've been really enjoying painting NMM.

Edited October 2 by m0nolith

[FormelyKnownAsSmashyPants]

I’ve become quite pessimistic and cynical when it comes to GW lately, however, this is actually really cool. As others have mentioned you can use a fidget popper but these are usually garish, rainbow coloured things. Finding a white one is very hard.

[sitnam]

 

Jesus GW … how about making models that people have been waiting ages for instead of stupid ideas like this …

if it was dirt cheap it’d probably be ok for some painters, but this is GW …so  it won’t be worth the price they’ll charge … 

 

You can dislike the pallete as much as you want, but GW has been releasing a ton of stuff people have wanted in the last few years. Kroot refresh, traitor guard, arbitrators, Kasrkin, resized Terminators, Eldar refresh, Krieg, Rough Riders, Cadian refresh. Thats without getting into HH or AoS systems.  

[ThePenitentOne]

I'm not a great painter, so I don't know what makes a good palette, but I've just always used the plastic lids of margarine tubs. Free (cuz everyone needs margarine) and disposable.

 

It's fine for people to spend their own money on whatever they want... But this hobby is expensive enough that I'll use margarine lids, hand write my own datacards and use the dice from yahtzee, backgammon, snakes and ladders. I'll use buckstore measuring tapes and Canadian tire Xacto knives and clippers.

[MithrilForge]

 

 

You can dislike the pallete as much as you want, but GW has been releasing a ton of stuff people have wanted in the last few years. Kroot refresh, traitor guard, arbitrators, Kasrkin, resized Terminators, Eldar refresh, Krieg, Rough Riders, Cadian refresh. Thats without getting into HH or AoS systems.  

You are right , I said the pallete is crap but please make more models we want instead like the good ones you’ve listed … I don’t know why you said that as what you’ve said is what I said …

[lhg033]

I hadnt noticed the article said they were replacing the pad with this - may need to stock up on some more of those if that's the case. I use these pretty much constantly when I paint for mixing old sheets to protect the dning table from paint spills etc.

[Halandaar]

 

Jesus GW … how about making models that people have been waiting ages for instead of stupid ideas like this …

 

Yes because this was definitely put together by the miniatures design team and it was definitely produced using their normal plastic injection moulding machines despite being made of silicone 

[Magos Takatus]

To be fair, I don't think that they are paying miniature sculptors to design these modelling and painting tools, It's not one or the other, the can certainly do both. 

 

My first impression was to roll my eyes, but considering my wet palette has fidget popper next to it for metallic paints, messy dropper bottles and washes I had to grudgingly admit it has value. Then I realised it's entirely on brand for my Ademech-loving self and realised having different sized wells might be quite useful.

Edited October 2 by Magos Takatus
Ninja'd by Halandaar. Good job. :D

[Stitch5000]

 

I love it, fun stuff is...fun

 

My dinosaur shaped silicone popper serves me well but this is a good present for someone

 

And thanks to Rusted Boltgun for the idea of using a bit of tile

 

Anyone that went to a UK GW store in the 90s or early 2000s will have fond memories of painting using a white tile. If you were really in the cool kids gang, the staff memeber might even let you clean the accumulated layers of paint from the tile before closing!

[Stitch5000]

 

Jesus GW … how about making models that people have been waiting ages for instead of stupid ideas like this …

if it was dirt cheap it’d probably be ok for some painters, but this is GW …so  it won’t be worth the price they’ll charge … 

Do you think GW consists of 15 guys with beards moving from project to project, one at a time and that this ancillary product has encroached on the production time of whatever it is that you feel so entitled to?

[SvenIronhand]

Bah, they'll never replace the good ol' paper plate.

[sitnam]

 

You are right , I said the pallete is crap but please make more models we want instead like the good ones you’ve listed … I don’t know why you said that as what you’ve said is what I said …

 

No, you pretty much implied that GW is wasting time making crap instead of making good models. But they have been making good models whilst also coming out with "crap".

 

This pallet likely had 0 impact on model design or release

[Marshal Reinhard]

 

Bah, they'll never replace the good ol' paper plate.

They might conquer segments but nothing will likely ever end the market dominance of the "great white"

[Xenith]

 

On the other, they will literally do anything but come out with a wet pallete

 

 

They explained this a while back in that youtube series that got peachy involved. I cant remember the name, seems they've faded from memory once they lost peachy. But wet pallette = longer lasting paints = fewer paints bought from GW. 

[Emperor Ming]

Price?

 

If its around the £4 mark

[Bryan Blaire]

If you are looking for something besides white fidget poppers to serve as silicone well palettes and don’t want to pay for a GW servo-skull version, you can take a look at ordering “flat round disc silicone mold baking tray” - the ones I have are specifically for chocolates/caramels.  It came as a pair: one tray that has 24 wider, shallower round wells - 35mm/ 1 & 5/16 inch diameter (I don’t prefer this one as much - seemed like Contrast/Speed Paint stuff dried more quickly in it after mixing), and then a second tray with 35 smaller diameter (23mm/ 7/8 inch) but 2-3 times deeper round wells.  The smaller wells are probably 1.5-2 times the volume you get in standard fidget popper pops also.

 

The trays don’t have more rigid outer walls like fidget poppers do, but if you are working on a flat surface, it shouldn’t pose any difficulty, and they pop inside out to get the paint off just like a fidget popper can.  If you really get something stuck on, you can always wash them in the sink or dishwasher as well - they are meant for baking candies after all.

Edited October 3 by Bryan Blaire

[Firedrake Cordova]

 

I cant remember the name, seems they've faded from memory once they lost peachy.

The Painting Phase.  

[Rusted Boltgun]

On 10/2/2024 at 2:32 PM, Emperor Ming said:

Price?

 

If its around the £4 mark

 

Now up for pre-order.

£9.

[Nephaston]

Pricey, but seemingly also available from 3rd party sellers for a discount. For me at most a maybe, and probably only to get to free shipping if I somehow find myself NOT wanting a miniature instead.