Vostroyan Painted With New GW Paints

I know I said my next paint experiment using the new paints was going to be an OOP rhino, but I decided last minute to paint something that would be easier for me to strip. A few minutes later I had Vostroyan trooper in hand. It makes sense after all, aren't regular army types the traditional guinea pigs for experimentation?  This miniature was painted using the following rules:

1. Only use new gw paints
2. paint directly out of the pot (I did thin the verdigris---I did this out of habit and stopped when I remembered the rules)
3. follow base + wash + base + layer model

I'd tell you which paints I used, but the names are ...well you know.

When I showed the mini to my wife and asked her what she thought, she paused for a long time. "The paint is think" was her primary remark. If you've been following my work for any amount of time, it should be apparent that I like as little paint on a model as possible. It is why I use airbrushes for my base coats, and why I thin my paints as much as possible. I don't like the look of heavily painted models. On the other hand, I don't think this guy is as bad as my first test mini with the new paints.

Lessons learned so far:

1. The washes do not set in the recesses when used out of the pot.
2. Mephiston red really is a beautiful color
3. The metals need a lot of shaking, and brass/gold may be usable for copper.
4. The silver metals are just as terrible as mentioned before. They clog details.
5. The GW method makes it faster to paint because there is no mixing, and no thinning.