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I'm a NOOB at this sort of thing and i'm not sure if there is a fix for this. I have a couple of "older" citadel paint pots and they have become lumpy and essentially usuable. What I'm wondering is if there is a simple fix to bring these pots back to their former glories or should I just consign them to the Emperor's side.

Go to hobby lobby and get some acrylic medium/metallic medium for metal colors; drop 4-5 drops and some water, stir it with a paper clip and let it work for a couple days.

If the paints have set, you are screwed. They have essentially turned into a plastic now. If their is any moisture left, do as above, but if they are dry, they are done.

I'm certainly no expert but I've previously thinned my older, lumpier, paints with a little water and glaze media then strained them through a filter. I've used old t-shirts as the filter material. It's worked for me. If someone has a better way, I'd love to hear it. I could use the help too, haha.

Yeah I've still got a pot of Flesh Wash, a pot of Bestial Brown and a pot of Chainmail that are still trucking from well over a decade ago with occasional topups of water.

You've got to be careful if you've got particularly hard water (your water supply is chalky and you get regular issues with limescale) as it can cause the paint itself to go chalky and weird. If that's the case, bottled water or filtered should do the trick

Alternative agitation accelerator - go to the hardware store, buy a cheap Jigsaw, and one of the smaller sliding F-Clamps (they're a piece of flat steel with a fixed end and the tension end that slides, or the other way around, but you want the thin rod)

Once you have both, fit the clamp into the blade holder on your jigsaw. Take paint pot, put it in the clamp, clamp it FIRMLY into place.

Now that you have it ready, hold your jigsaw up like you are firing shots into the air, and SLOWLY apply trigger pressure. You don't need to pull it all the way, but you want to slowly accelerate the jigsaw from stopped to decent speed. Hold this for a little bit, and it should have helped with the whole stirring and shaking part of your resurrection.

I have a solution that I've used with success that might help. If the paint is just kinda lumpy but you can still see some liquid in it, what I was taught to do is put in a few droplets of water (to act as a replacement for what has been lost) and find a small ball bearing. Drop the bearing into the pot, close it up, and shake vigorously.

The bearing is not dissimilar to the operation of a spraypaint can. The paint will be thinner than before but as long as you didnt overdo it on the water droplets, it wont be by that much.