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I've been into modelling for about 3 years now, but have only recently gotten into using washes. I need some help thought for washes for my Arctic army, I tried both brown and black, but both made the models look grubby, and didn't bring out the detail/shadow the way they do on a none Arctic colour scheme. The actual paints I use are: Space Wolves Grey, Codex Grey and skull white. The black wash works fine on the Codex Grey, but the Space Wolves Grey (comes out pale-bluish) and white don't benefit from this wash. What colour washes would people suggest, or how should I got about mixing my own washes?
Thanks,
Raith

Have you looked into blue washes? I'm far from an expert painter, but I seem to remember someone mentioning that for snow effects.

I've used watered-down Shadow Grey on my White Scars and it works pretty well. The blue wash looks a bit too harsh, in my opinion.

Thin blue works well. Just make sure it's a weak one, because Blue Wash by GW is pretty pigmented.

I myself have an urbancamo-arctic theme to my Tau army, I haven't found washes to be overly effective on the Tau as they are, in my opinion portrayed to have a crisp/clean look to their force with the obvious exception of the kroot. With the skull white as the base colour i have found using fortress grey in the recesses in between the panels to give a much smoother flow of colour. Along with this i use a 50/50 mix of codex grey and chaos black to colour the vents, engines, legs (battlesuits), etc. with a dry-brush of codex grey to give it a little more distinction.

If you end up spraying your models in Skull white then you can also use the tub skull white as a highlight on the raised sections as its a slightly brighter shade.

Alternatively if you really want to use a wash then I suggest a very pale grey, just pale enough to notice the difference against the white. [This is all assuming with your arctic theme you are using white as the main colour]

Hope this helps...

Mix Asurmen Blue and Badab Black, That's what I did with my Space Wolves and it worked out pretty well.