The Army Painter Hydropack Bundle Stay Wet Palette for Acrylic Painting - Acrylic Paint Palette, 50 Pcs Wet Palette Paper, and 2 Wet Pallet Sponges

Had this product recommended to me in a painters class. Turned out to be a great buy. Having all of the extra papers and extra sponge is amazing as well.

Im not really taken with this thing. At first I thought it was very cool, but the sponge sucks, the papers do not wick well, and paints still dry out on the palette if you keep going for too long. There are much better wet palette kits for much less... Including just making your own.

I tried my own home made wet palette, but it was nothing compared to this. It keeps the paints wet and with a little work helps thin them to the right amount

Pick you up a masterson sta-wet. Save yourself $10, or buy a bunch more replacement sponges for said wet palette. As for this palette, compared to one I made myself out of a plastic sandwich container, paper towels, two pennies, and food grade parchment paper, Id rather use the one I made myself. This palette is very professional-looking. It does not hold or even have a seal. Moisture condensed on the top lid of my palette. The paints I had on it overnight leaked into one another and turned a pale gray. Bought mine at my LGS, so I cant return it, though Ive not asked. Probably will ask em about in-store credit, see if I cant score some more minis out of it. Overall, save your money, go to the dollar store and pick up a nice big sandwich container of some sort, some paper towels and some parchment paper, layer it and get it nice and wet with some distilled or otherwise filtered water, call it good and start painting. Or pick up a masterson sta-wet. Either will provide you with more of a seal than the reviewed palette.

This wet pallet keeps my acrylics moist for weeks. It doubles as storage for the brushes I use and makes my miniatures happy.

Ive generally enjoyed using this wet palette, but...well, frankly, the hydro foam is much worse than standard paper towels and the hydro sheets are much worse than standard parchment paper. The case is super nifty though. See, the problem with the hydro garbage this is designed to use: given a day or two, Army Painter paints bleed back through the hydro-sheets into the hydro-foam. Youd think theyd have tested this with their own paints at least! But it doesnt seem so. To make things even more odd, the pattern (pictured) doesnt even correspond with the paints I was using! The purple on the right-hand side? I wasnt painting with purple. The only yellow I was painting with was on the lower left, but it seems to have migrated everywhere. Same with the orange. Even worse, it seems like it has also become a bit of a petri dish for something or another--this hardly seems antimicrobial! I have to wonder if the colors here are even from the paints or if some weird bacteria or mold is actually producing pigment inside of the foam. (But perhaps its just different pigments in the same paint migrating at different rates, like in chromatography.) And, worse, I havent a clue how to clean out this stinking foam! All-in-all, this is a great little wet palette case, but the foam and sheets are really not up to the task. Im going to have to see if I cant make this baby work with something else, because I really like the case at least and would rather not go back to using my old tupperware wet palette.

Box came a bit beated up but pallet came in great condition otherwise!

Paint and time saver

I wanted one, so I went to Amazon and bought one.

This is the first wet palette I have ever purchased and I love this product. I have been using army painter paints for a while and noticed I was throwing away paint after each painting session. I live in a very dry area and my paints dry fast. Both on my projects and on my palette. Thanks to this product I can start painting one day and continue the next. This has already saved me money as I no longer throw away paints after each session. They included a generous amount of sheets and 2 hydro foams to start you on your painting. I love that I have a space for my favorite brushes and a band to keep it together. The only thing I wish The Army Painter would have added to this product is a watertight seal. Perhaps they will add this in an updated version of this product.