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The topic explains it really, but there is one more thing. I know which scheme I want (Dark Grey base, Light Grey streaks), but what I really need to know is how you "darken" it down. I don't want my tanks to stand out from the rest of the army in terms of brightness (the infantry will have washes which darken them down, using washes on tanks... well, it looks horrible).

So, how to darken down camouflaged tanks?

Maybe start with darker shades of grey for the vehicles?

But generally camo gets brighter ( thanks to the sun ) on vehicles and repainted patches are often darker than the bleached "original"..
at real Tanks that is. Sure in 40k , paints could have some secret ingridients to prevent that.
IMO, personal gear of the soldiers is sooner replaced than any part of a vehicle and the camo should be darker on your infantrymen
( which sit in that chimera and thus in the dark..) than those of the vehicles.

PS: as part of the "factory fresh" group, my Tanks are always not-weathered. The Guard does a lot of things, mine got the honor to keep their vehicles in good condition and until now the Munitorum didin't complain about the requested amounts of paint....