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Was wondering if anyone does this with their thicker paints to get smoother layers out of them. I am always mixing water and paint on my pallet. Will just adding straight water and shaking it up dry out my paint or something, or is it just hard to get the perfect mix?

You can, yes. Just use a little pallete to mix it on.
I did it once with a pot... boy that was a bad idea... to much water.

Why the giant text. We ain't blind you know.

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:
You can, yes.

Why the giant text. We ain't blind you know.

Must be on your side. My text is reading normal to me.

The text is humongous on my screen.

Really bad idea, the amount of water you would need won't fit in the pot. It'll still be gloopy even if you fill it to the brim with water.

The only really reliable way to do this is to transfer to a dropper bottle and then thin it out, but even then, it's not the best idea. You can always thin thick paint, but you can't thicken thin paint, and for things like drybrushing, you still want it to be thick. It's a pain, I know, but it's one of those things in the hobby you just gotta get used to.

Gw paints are so thick i almost always had to add water to the pots directly to pre-thin them before using them.

Then of course thin them a little more when actually use them.

It's not a bad idea to add some drying retarder to the pots and maybe a touch of water or acrylic thinner to thin them out a bit and stop them drying so fast. But trying to get them to the exact right consistency? I wouldn't bother. For one, different jobs require different consistency. For two, it'd be hard to get the consistency you exactly want anyway, I think it'd be even more annoying if you accidentally over thinned it.

You can but it's not that useful. Much better to thin paint on a palate.

Agreed. I'll occasionally add a splash of water (and possibly a medium, depending on the paint's condition) to keep old paints from thickening overmuch, but I always thin to the task on the palette. Much more flexible, minimizes waste if you overdo it.