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I have a copy of White Dwarf withba Skin tone I wanted to try out.

Long story short, what is the difference between the glaze technique, and the regular and recess wash shades? I would like a very easy answer to this.

P.S. Before anyone says Google amd YouTube are my friends... No, they're not.

Glazing is applying layers of mostly transparent paint to surfaces to build up subtle tones, tinted to underlying layers and smooth gradients. shading is using thin paints that run easily into recesses and around details to help define details. Washing is a combination of the two, when you are using the shade to both tint the main surfaces of the videos, and also defining recesses and details. Contrast paints and their ilk are particularly aggressive washes that replace the need to do a separate base layer before hitting g it with a complementary wash.

You can use washes or thinned contrast pants to create glaze consistency easily, but you can also thin down other paints to get the right transparency. Using acrylic medium rather than water makes it a bit easier I believe, but I think you can just use water as well.

 Flinty wrote:
Glazing is applying layers of mostly transparent paint to surfaces to build up subtle tones, tinted to underlying layers and smooth gradients. shading is using thin paints that run easily into recesses and around details to help define details. Washing is a combination of the two, when you are using the shade to both tint the main surfaces of the videos, and also defining recesses and details. Contrast paints and their ilk are particularly aggressive washes that replace the need to do a separate base layer before hitting g it with a complementary wash.

You can use washes or thinned contrast pants to create glaze consistency easily, but you can also thin down other paints to get the right transparency. Using acrylic medium rather than water makes it a bit easier I believe, but I think you can just use water as well.

Thanks for the explanation, something tells me I needed to have a Warhammer+ plus account to learn something that is not about gluing parts together these days.

Last night I did a shade wash with 1:3 paint to medium but it wound up as a layer. Exactly how much water/medium do I need for it to become shade(the paint in question is Army Painter if that helps)?

It can vary even from paint to paint within a specific range. The not-very-helpful answer is as much as it takes for it to look how you want it to on the model.

This is a nice little one-stop-shop of a tutorial video: