New to painting minis and struggling with layering/semi-transparent paint
Hello, I started painting minis just recently, painted only 2 minis so far and currently working on my third, so I am very inexperienced. There is one thing I can't seem to figure out - how to paint in layers or get a semi-transparent paint. I am currently painting a furry pokémon-like guy from Dragon Eclipse board game which is mostly dark blue, gradualy lightening to lighter/almost white in his chest area, so my idea was to paint the darker color on him and then paint lighter blue on him with semi-translucent layers, lightening him gradually. I am using Army Painter acrylic paints with wet palette and I'm probably not very good with thinning my paints, but I am mostly getting two results - either the paint starts covering the previous color completely, or when I thin it out with water more, it starts to behave very watery/like wash, sticking only to crevices and not the fur parts of the mini. So i basically could get only two shades of blue on my mini and had to resort to dry-brushing some white onto it to blend it out somehow.
So my question is - can I somehow "thin" my paint with water to be semi-translucent, but not runny like a wash with my Army Painter paints, or do I need some special kind of medium? Or is iit just issue of not knowing how to thin my paints properly?
