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I’m into the guard getting painted and settled on a scheme for urban combat. I went with Eshin grey armour and khaki fatigues as grey on grey looked a little third reich for my liking.

Now that said. I want the tanks grey and I saw this image. I was wondering if anyone knew how to achieve this effect?

It looks to me like it would be

Mechanicus standard grey primer
Dry brush dawnstone
Add additional colours and end highlight said colours
Agrax Earthshade in the crevices
Apply transfers
Black paint on sponge the whole thing for weathering

Sound about right?

The wash on there looks more red to me than Agrax in places - zoom in on the riveted panel above the tread gun mount and the top edges around the turret greebles. It looks close to crimson in places. So potentially more than one wash. The metal areas and deep recesses look more like a black wash.

Base colour is definitely a cold blue-grey or neutral grey with blue-grey highlights. Bottom looks to have lots of rust coloured weathering powder or paint on it. Same with the treads, there's red-brown in there probably suggesting dirt and/or rust.

The dirt around the bottom is more orange, suggesting mournfang brown to me or potentially a Reddy brown pigment.

Also looks like there's some sliver chipping / extreme edge highlighting on the metal plates in a few spots. Particularly visible on the horizontal edge of the panel above the main turret with the red light on it.