So I recently got the 60 paint bottle set on sale, mostly for the large number of tonal washes, various intermediate colors of blue so I wouldn't have to keep mixing my own highlight or pay 10 bucks for citadel paints, etc. and it came with an instruction thing saying to pour out the medium before using... so I shook it, like it said, squeezed, and instead of clear medium coming out(as the pamphlet showed), it was just paint. Extraordinarily thin paint.

The set bottles also seem to have come with mixing balls pre-loaded in them, but also came with 100 mixing balls, which is confusing.

I exclusively handpaint(no spraying/airbrushing at any point, ever), so having my paints come out that ridiculously thin right away is uhhh... not ideal. Is there a reliable way to separate out the excess medium without wasting paint?

also why are army painter's reds so glossy by default? Mephiston red from Citadel really seems to be unbeatable.