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So recently I began Tau and I decided with it, I'd buy the new paints and try them out. The paints I'm having issue with is XV-88, Tau Light Ochre, and Ungor Flesh. I figured since these are the main colors the Tau are going to be, I'd get three of each. After painting a Hammerhead an APC, and half of another Hammerhead, I decided to switch bottles for the thrusters and the turret. Upon applying the paint in the same manner as the body I started to notice a difference in color. The first bottle that I had used for the XV-88 for a two tone camo dried and looks more like a dulled down OD color, while the second bottle is more of a muddy brown color. The Light Ochre is having the same issue where the tan is two different tones. I did this in one long painting session using a line format doing one color at a time on each so there was no issue with applying it in uneven layers, etc. (Which shouldn't cause an issue in the first place as they are water based). The Ungor Flesh pretty much was a bottle of water which I took back to the FLGS and they let me swap it out.

From formerly working mixing paints, it seems like they are simply not putting in the same codes when doing the colors... Is anyone else having issues like this with the new paint or is it just me?

Did you thoroughly shake the bottles? I haven't tried multiple pots of any of the new paints, but definitely make sure you really really thoroughly shake the pots, you could even get a stirrer and make sure there's not blobs at the bottom which aren't mixing in with the rest of the paint.

EDIT: Also, did you water the paints down to the same degree and were you using clean water?

I know when I was recently painting my Leman Russ, even using the exact SAME pot of paint I could tell which parts I painted first and which parts I painted last because there was a very subtle change in the colour as the paint may have settled after a while or maybe I used more or less water changing the consistency and tone or maybe the water was slightly dirty, I'm not sure why exactly I just wasn't careful enough. The change is very subtle and probably no one else would notice but me because I'm the one who painted it, but it's definitely there. Especially on things like vehicles where you need a really consistent layer you can often, if looking closely, tell which parts were painted at different times even from the same pot of paint.

I did shake the paint and also mixed it thoroughly and I noticed they were still a little chunky so i used a glass bottled which I have marks on to add water to the paint. The issue is that the paints are literally two different tones rather than the watered down or chunky effect you would get if its mixed poorly.