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Ok,
I've been painting away with my Angels of Absolution Land raider and have ran into a problem. As you know Absolution's colour is bleached bone (although I've used dheneb stone as it covers better) the problem is I don't have a clue about how to shade it. I'm going to use a brown for doing the recesses such as where the armour joins but the actual overall tank is very bright and somehow I need/want to show some wear and tear. I am going to drybrush the lower armour with mud colours(either side of the tracks).
As for the tank; I can only think of one way to shade it would be to use a wash applied by brush. Now this fills me with horror as I've never used a wash on a vehicle before, indeed I showed my ork battlewagon on dakka a while back and many folks comments centred on "It's a bit clean for an ork vehicle!".
So can anyone give me advice so that the tank does not turn out a complete mess?

This is a nice way to paint bone armor and it involves Dheneb Stone: http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-i-paint-deathwing-bone-armour.html?m=1

Also, don't drybrush the bottom of the tank for a dirt effect; it won't look right. Look up how to weather tanks on Google, there are plenty of tutorials out there to help you. As a matter of fact, stay away from drybrushing when ever possible, especially on things like tanks with large, flat panels.