Making more progress, and I've also been learning some new things!
First, I found a glazing tutorial by Dana Howl (aka @dana_howl) were I learned something useful that I hadn't heard before. The main new thing was to wet a towel and unload 'most' of the glaze/paint from the brush before going in to paint. 'Most' still takes practice and experience, but the goal is to prevent flooding the area on the miniature. This small bit of information which I had never heard before was huge! It was the missing piece that I didn't know I didn't know. I had always struggled with paint pooling/ponding and then creating marks at the edges of the pool if it dried even a little as I was trying to move it around. I always thought it was a consistency problem or something and this finally gave me the answer!
She recommended using glaze medium rather than water which I had heard before, but I tried it again, and with the above information it was helpful in differentiating more for me in my mind the difference between a wash and a glaze.
Anyway, with that, I have made progress on several areas which directly benefitted from this new information and gave really good results. For example, the Techmarine's helm lens/visor looks really good after applying some blended glazes from green to a slight lemon lime blend with yellow.
And of course, I started in on the green liquid in the Apothecary's backpack. I'm following Louise Sugden's (aka @Savage_ork_guy) Citadel Colour Master Class Glass Bottles technique which was a huge help and so far it's turning out great.
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