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I make extensive use of thinned down (1:1) Ogryn Flesh wash. My supply is just about exhausted though and as Reikland Fleshshade is its replacement I tried that. In terms of tone it works well enough however it doesn't thin down well at all. It dries unevenly and leaves areas of light pigment; I had no difficulties of this type with Orgyn Flesh.

I generally use 2 drops of water to 2 drops of shade. Any suggestions on how to get around this, or suggestions for a suitable alternative?

The new shades are not actually washes. They're ink suspended in some sort of medium, I assume acrylic but not sure. You need to thin the medium.

A possible solution would be to mix the shade with a similar color glaze.

Another option would be to check out a paint seller like Valejo or PP to see if they have something similary to the old GW wash.

The problem is you are mixing the shades with water. As a result the shade sits on the water rather than actually mix with it and that is what is causing uneven drying. Try mixing with a paint thinner or alcohol.

 Breotan wrote:
The new shades are not actually washes. They're ink suspended in some sort of medium, I assume acrylic but not sure. You need to thin the medium.

Isn't that what the old washes were (nearly all commercially available washes, actually)? Ink in water/acrylic medium with a bit of surfactant? If the medium is acrylic, water should thin it just fine (up to a point well beyond 1:1, at least).

Spotty and/or chalky finishes to diluted paints/washes are frequently the result of the medium being stretched too far, causing pigment to clump (same thing can happen with the old paints/washes, but usually takes a lot more thinning to become an issue), in which case adding more usually does the trick. Have any acrylic medium, OP (I imagine a pot of the new Lahmian Medium would do the trick, if you're buying GW, exclusively)? It almost sounds like they dropped the ratio in the new line (as a greedy cost-cutting measure, some might say )...