>>10400699you use a piece of cardboard for a palette and let let all the paint globs sit out on the cardboard for 12ish hours so that all the linseed oil on the paint gets sucked into the cardboard. the paint on the palette stays wet enough to use for a few days if you keep it covered and moistened a little with min spirits.
the way youre supposed to use oil paints for weathering is you make the tiniest dots with and then wipe 95% of it off in streaks