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Having come back to the hobby after a number of years away I've started to notice that not only are the Citadel paints smaller than before (5.5ml less that the old ones) they also seem to be thicker.
I've been playing about with trying to water my paints down a bit to help with blending and to leave more of the detail on the models however I either seem to go way to far and create washes or else it does nothing at all. I think part of the problem is that I'm only watering down small amounts of paint at any one time.

Does anyone have any tips for watering down? How much paint should I water down at a time? Is water the best thinner or should I look at something else? What do you guys do for this?

I use water for non-metallics/non-foundation paints and proper thinner (winsor and newton) for things with heavy pigment that would split in water. For most normal GW paints I use about 1:2 or 1:1 water to paint and for vallejo model color it is about 2:1.

The basic goal for me is to get it to flow easily but to not pigment pooling in the details of the model.

Ah that's good to know thanks. I think that's close to the mixes I've been using (though I'm not great at measuring ratios by eye). I think I might try adding a drop of water at a time and then trying to learn to control my new freer flowing material.

I use the tip of the handle of the paintbrush to add 1 drop water to 2 drops paint on a palette. It gives a much more controllable mix (but can be slow when you need to mix up a large amount).