Ok, need help regarding washes. We FDM printed a larger scale "mini" as a present for someone and I am painting it. The base coat is done minus some touch ups and I have a set of army painter washes that I was hoping to use to get some shading. This would be my first time using them except for a practice piece that wasn't as well printed or basecoated. There are three problems.
1. I am worried the wash will highlight the FDM layers. This happened a bit on the practice piece, but might be less of a problem on the real deal. Not really sure if anyone will have any advice here, but worth a shot.
2. I think these washes were formulated for minis that are much smaller, this being scaled up ~400% I think? That is important because the shading seems a bit off at this scale, and you can see every detail vs smaller minis.
3. The shading is a bit darker than I was expecting, so I really would like a bit more transparency to not change the base color too much.
I think reducing the viscosity with flow aid or extra medium might help with all of these, but if anyone has some advice that would be great. Has to be done by Friday, so I can't afford to mess up too badly.
Also, pics as an offering to the model gods
