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Hey Gang!

I am getting very frustrated painting some model that are true grey. Everything I mix & airbrush is a blueish grey at all levels of the greyscale. I tried various Reaper paints, even mixing PURE WHITE and PURE BLACK. I still get a blueish grey. What's going on here? I also tried adding a tiny bit of yellow, but that just turns the mix into a greenish muck grey.

Anybody find a real true grey paint out there?

I am trying to paint like the Marines in the photo here:

Help us out a little, what paints have you tried other than Reaper? : )

Army Painter War paint has a couple good 'grey's that seem to be close to what you're looking for. I'll see if I can find what they were called.

EDIT:
Look into trying out either Ash Grey or Uniform Grey from Army Painter.

Try Tamiya paints.

Sky Grey (XF-19) is a pretty light, neutral grey and Dark Sea Grey (XF-54) is a dark neutral grey. Neutral Grey (XF-53) might work too, but I think it has little bit of blue in it. Also, Flat Black (XF-1) and Flat White (XF-2) would work if you want to mix your own grey, as they are both pretty pure colors.

Vallejo may have what you need from the panzer series. True saturated grey

I don't use Reaper white or black, so I can't say as to why you're seeing blue. But just some random thoughts, in no particular order:

- Could it be that your lighting is adding some blue? For instance, fluorescent lighting and/or "daylight" bulbs (5000k+) could do that.

- Mixing black and white from Vallejo, P3, or GW paints do NOT give you any blue. I guarantee you that this is so.

- Could your brush be dirty? Have you tried mixing it with a toothpick?

- Vallejo has a bazillion greys, some of which are indistinguishable from each other. Medium Sea Grey is probably close to your photo there (plus shades, plus highlights, etc.). I own like... 8 Vallejo greys, or maybe more. There are some really nice dark greys, too, darker than what anyone else produces out of the bottle.

- GW's progression of Mechanicus Standard Grey - Dawnstone - Administratum grey are all "blue free".

 Talys wrote:

- GW's progression of Mechanicus Standard Grey - Dawnstone - Administratum grey are all "blue free".

I can attest to this - my Krieg use these colours by brush and airbrush (see my post in this forum for evidence or go to my blog by hitting the WWW)

Thanks for the painting advice fellas,

Last night I did in fact pickup and try the GW progression of Mechanicus Standard Grey - Dawnstone - Administratum grey.

Perfect solution, I'm very happy. hahaa