One thing about my painting technique for my stuff at the moment is the fact I use my paint straight out of the pot. However, I notice most of the other people here seem to thin their paint slightly in order to get a better coat.

Most of my OWN attempts to do this have resulted in my paint ending up more like a wash, flooding various areas and generally resulting in very unimpressive results,no matter how little water I added, to the point where I end up going right back to using it straight out of the pot again. However I feel if I'm going to improve I'm going to need to get the thinning right.

Does anyone have any tips in their own experience on how to get the paint to a perfect consistency for painting on without suffering from massive flooding like I seem to do now? I feel ridiculous for asking this but it's not something that particularly seems to get covered all that well on painting sites.

Thanks in advance for any help :D

tamiya do a paint thinner, I bought some once.. apparently it's like pigmentless paint, good for thinning down your colours without making a wash.. I've not used it much, so I can't really give much feedback. some of the other guys here might know more about it.

how many coats of thinned down paint do you use? because a single layer of thinned down paint will rarely get a consistant colour.

You have too much paint on the brush.

Thats all it is mate.

Water you're paint down to say, 2 parts water to 1 part paint, put some on you're brush, just a small amount and carefully paint the raised surfaces of the model, not the gaps and recesses.

SC

Do what!?! Your a mentalist!!

A single drop does it for me, just dry the brush before mixing it in otherwise you get too much... if you're gonna be doing blending or really fine highlights then yeah, do what SC said, but otherwise i would keep the thinning quite minimalised, really all you need is enough to stop if being lumpy...

When I thin, I just load up my brush, dip it in water, and touch it to my drying paper to get the excess off. It works for me, but then again, I'm not exactly the best painter either XD