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Any suggestions?

I just use water because well its pretty cheap.

^Yep, same.

Isn't the new paint line sposed to be designed to use strait out of the bottle?

jonolikespie wrote:Isn't the new paint line sposed to be designed to use strait out of the bottle?

I found the new line to be thicker and I have had to thin it down more.

So far with the base colors I've been thinning them down 2 parts paint 1 part water. More then enough.

I thin with 10:1 distilled water:flo-Aid(liquitex). I also add 5 drops of Liquitex Slo-Dry to every new paint to prevent drying out and to increase working time on my palette.

If you think, water is not good enough, you can always use the official thinner "Lhamian Medium" by GW.

I'm also using Medium gel and water on mine, i've found the paints to be quite thick and cake rather badly right out of the pot.

Water,flow aid, or acrylic medium. depending on what you're thinning it for. For general brush work, water and flow aid are your friends.
If you want to spray them, I suggest a thin acrylic medium (like Liquitex Airbrush Medium); this will not break the surface tension of the paint like water and flow aid will, and can infact make it stronger while reducing viscosity dramatically.
Gw paints are just like any other acrylic paints, nothing much special about them, they do have a nice opacity on some colours and a nice range of mettallics though.

UnCool Villain wrote:I just use water because well its pretty cheap.

agreed. Water works the best for thinning. If you want to get specific though, for example if your blending colors and need the paints thin and also pliable for more than 2-3 minutes then you might think about using some other source.....but an eye dropper and water is a good way to keep paints thin and new (avoiding coagulation or chunks in your paint)

jonolikespie wrote:Isn't the new paint line sposed to be designed to use strait out of the bottle?

The new paint line's "layer" paints are thinner, but I wouldn't recommend dipping straight out of the pot.

Most of the paint you put on a model should be thinner than that, too much and it will turn out clumpy and awful.
I haven't used the foundation paints before, but I should think one should thin them as well.

What is not thinned out is the dry paints, these are for drybrushing and are meant to be dipped straight out of the pot.
Adding water would defeat the purpose.

Yup, thin those layer paints down a bit, take your time and don't work too fast.
For me, painting with very thin paints can also help to cover up and correct minor errors. If I don't paint a line perfectly with one layer, I can just correct it with the next layer and make it look a bit smoother.
But if I had been painting with something where one layer was enough coverage, that minor error will be there to stay.