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I'm slowly starting to notice just how important the thickness of the paint you are applying is. Once this became appearant to me, I started wondering if washes worked the same way. Every source I've ever read said you dip straight from the pot, but when I try that on, say, nids, it looks terrible. So I'm wondering, do you thin washes before you apply them?

If there's another thread that goes into detail regarding everything washes, just redirect me there if you don't mind.

What brand of wash are you using?

The citadel paints. Namely badab black. I used devlan mud and badab on guardsmen and that worked well enough, using badab on nids and it's terrible looking.

Depends on what you're aiming for. When I wash the yellow areas (pipes and cables and tubing) on my chaos marines I wash straight from the pot to seriously dull down the colour and to give a really mucky, sooty look.

However, when I wash their armour in badab black to tie it all together, I make a thinner was with water so the black pigment is much less strong.

Try this thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/230249.page#565930

Hope it helps.

Interesting link bone. I've seen dipping done before, and I was never impressed by the effect it left. Of course, I'm talking about this stuff you buy in a large tub that you dip stuff into. My friend got some and we both agreed it was money wasted.

However....someone made a post about using citadel washes to dip. It doesn't sound like a bad idea, but I imagine it will take all of my badab pot and then some to make a container suitably large enough to stick a whole figure in.

@lunarman - I think that's what I'll try, just thinning things down. I mean, using paints taught me how thinning is required to have a good model, so it makes sense it would transfer over to washing too.