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i dont have the new foundation paints yet, so this is regarding the older GW paints.

i noticed many times painters are told to thin their paints because the paints seem un even.

i didnt think much of it till i dug up a few bottle that i guess i forgot to throw away, and tried it.

it was really awful.it takes like 4 coats to be able to cover even white undercoat ( to achieve the paint color )
same goes for yellow, orange, red, white color.

and after 4 coats, it does indeed build up, and soon enough .... we have it the THICK paints.

so i dunno D: i really dont like those paints, am i doing something wrong with it?

well to me, before i put on watered down white/yellow, i give it a light coat of bleached bone, then just put down like 1 or 2 watered down coats of "old" white/yellow. it still works great.

The best thing to do is work up from a closer colour.
e.g. if painting yellow, try orange over the basecoat first.

Very few white paints will cover black with one coat. Same for yellow, red and orange. Pigment density is the issue there.

I use astronomican grey as the undercoat for white now (I used to use shadow grey, then space wolf grey, then white) over a black primer.

*cries

no one reads the original post >.<
was all the light color were over white undercoat.

uhm i think we're telling you wat to do? since you were asking if you were wrong with it. uhhhhhhh yeah?

for perfect one coat white mix i little bit of varnish and water into foundation white its really good

The Foundations are indeed the answer to your problem.

High pigment means one coat covers black and white evenly, and you can then use the thin coats of normal paint over the top to lighten.

Yellow and Orange paints, as stated are notorious for bad coverage, and it's not just GW paints. It's all to do with the pigment level, which I understand to be necessarily low in these colours. Why, I dunno. Just what I've been told!