#I am struggling with thinned AK paint from pot

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dawn valve
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Hi, my AK paints are always too thinned event from pot, not water added, on wet palette from redgrass and green stuff world, i was thinking i was me that i add too much water on sponge and maybe it is but it happened on dry palette too, is so thinned i struggle to paint a base coat, is the brand bad at this ? I don't remember this kind of behavior with Vallejo paint. (Even the AK black undercoat is sooo thinned for my airbrush, it's not even usable...)

I soak paint on paper towel but it's the same, this got me crazy, it with all my AK paint, of course i shake well

viscid marten
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Strange, I don't have this issue with my AK paints. Maybe it's a bad batch or something?

Can you share a picture or product number for one of them?

dawn valve
viscid marten
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I just used a bunch of AK paints in my latest project and didn't notice any issues with thinning. Maybe it's more that these paints in particular have poor coverage? I don't own these ones in particular but paint lines often have weaknesses where some of the paints are just worse than others.

I would definitely expect for example, any yellow to have poor coverage, especially over black primer. But the darker colors should be fine.

dawn valve
viscid marten
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What about youtube reviews of these paints? Do they behave like the reviews?

dawn valve
viscid marten
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I'd record something real quick on my hobby desk right now but the whole thing is taken over by a non-mini-painting project

viscid marten
dawn valve
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Hum, but I think definitely my wet palette has too much water, but when I remove water is got dry really fast and don't resolved the problem

viscid marten
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Is your paper wet on the top? Because I use a RGG palette and flood it (there's water pooled around the sponge), but the top of the paper is dry. I use the reusable paper.

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Maybe just check those youtube reviews. See what's what.

dawn valve
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Yes paper on top, just humid on touch, I don't see water pool on it

viscid marten
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If the paper is wet on top, that's too much water in my experience. I soak the sponge/foam, then lay the paper on top, and remove any water on top of the paper.

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But that applies to all paints for me, not just AK.

dawn valve
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I mean barely humid, not to dry but not to wet, well I'll try different water saturation levels on spong