Help - Problems with citadel wash

[Archeodigger]

Hello everybody!
I have same problems with the citadel wash coelia greenshade.
I started to paint my WE army and I use as a base for the leather (boots, armor, shoulder straps) the dryad bark washed with coelia greenshade and then highlighted.
However the effect was rather shiny and glossy

Reading on the forum I found the solution: shake well the wash and then apply.
I tried this solution on a new model, but the effect is totally different.
The brown is gone and now the leather parts have a gray-bluish color.

It is normal, there is an alternative solution?
Thanks in advance for any advice!!

 

[TrystanGST]

Pics are broken - but I've never heard of shaking a wash changing the colors. Then again I've never heard of shaking a wash period.

 

[Maenas]

Maybe you got an "impure" pot with wrong proportions of its ingredients in it. I would go to the shop and ask/complain there. Would possibly bring also the minis one with shading on, one without and try there a new pot.
And by the way I got to shake my washes too because some times I found they tend to get less fluid at the bottom. (my last pot of Nuln oil is a perfect example of this)

 

[Archeodigger]

Hello! Thanks for the reply.

Pics are broken

What do you mean by that? I personally took the pictures....

I honestly do not understand the cause of this effect, but I've noticed the same with other wash (Nuln oil, agrax heartshade).
The wash used in the 2 miniatures showing before was the same... in the second one the wash was only shaken.

 

[MAXXxxx]

he means, that we can't see the pictures at all, just empty placeholders for them.

one alternative I'd suggest: use the armypainter inks. They are exactly the same as the old washes by color (old badab black = dark tone, old devlan mud = strong tone, ...) and I didn't have any problems with them.
Of course 1 problem is that GW's new shades are different in color to the old washes most of the time (for example the crimson is a LOT different to the baalred, the green one differs too, the agrax is the same as far as I see it, nuln is a bit different, but not much)

 

[Archeodigger]

he means, that we can't see the pictures at all, just empty placeholders for them.

Ups! Sorry... now can you see the pictures?

 

[TrystanGST]

Sure can. Now I see what you mean. And I second Maenas' suggestion about bad inks.

 

[MrJim]

Coelia greenshade is a blue/green wash and is not what you want to use on Wood Elves.

Their three "Green" shades are as follows:

Coelia Green - blue green for shading their Blue/Green paints such as Stegadon Scale Green (actually kinda blue) and Incubi Darkness. (also bluish)
Biel-Tan Green - bright green for shading their brighter green paints including those used to paint Wood Elves. This is the shade you should be using.
Anthonian Camoshade - This is an olive green that will dull down you greens to make them look more dull and subdued. (like real camouflage)

GW has a bad habit (IMO) of mis-using color names. Slannesh Grey is Lavender, Ulthuan Grey is Mint Green, etc, etc.