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Right, I'm currently painting a model and the whole things feels a bit dark to me, i'm painting red.

I wanted to ask, before i foolishly try my radical ideas, if i were to thin down a white paint and wash the model, taking care not to hit the recesses too hard... would that brighten it up? or just create a mess?

Also, thinking on it, i wonder if it could be that my shading isn't dark enough, so the whole model feels to have a dark tone?

Any thoughts or ideas would be great!

thanks

Step away from the paint brush!!!
Don't. Unless you want a horrible apocalypse of ****!
Try adding bleached bone to the red and apply it to raised parts,leaving the recessed areas as they are?
Also,it would help with a picture to look at?

Trying glazing a light red or orange onto the upper portion of the red areas to make it. Brighter and very thinned black red mix onto the lower portions to create a contrast overlapping in the middle. Is it a marine you are painting?