I'm guessing I'm just doing something wrong...

I was painting up some Reaper minis and slathered on some GW wash. It ended up drying all shiny in the recesses; it looks like the paint is still wet or something. So before I start my Runewars minis, I thought I'd get to the bottom of this. Do I need to use less ink or sop some of it up or something?

Did you hit those minis with some matte varnish? The Army Painter anti-shine varnish took the shine off of minis I dipped in minwax for shading.

If it's pooling a lot, it's a good idea to sop some of it up. The trouble is that what is "a lot" is hard to describe, and comes with experience...which I don't have because I've only used a wash on about 4 miniatures total in my life

In my experience, washes often dry shiny. Just apply a matte spray varnish at the end, as WWHSD mentions, and it will be fine.

Note that GW have gloss and non gloss versions of some of their washes. In my experience the non-gloss Nuln Oil dries very matt.

Incidentally the gloss Nuln Oil is great for metallics.

I used a GW brown wash, matte I think, no shine at all. Great for skeletons, but won't be any good for Daqan.