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Hey guys I'm painting my ravenwing attack bike and trying to do a decent job on it, but I can't make a straight line for the life of me. So I'd like to go over it with a glaze to try and blend things in better. Unfortunately GW glazes are only red/blue/green/yellow as I found out at my FLGS.

What color would you recommend thinning down? As I understand it, a glaze is about 10 drops of lahmian medium to 1 drop of paint, if this is wrong please correct me.

Also, how do you guys like the viewscreen, thought it looked pretty cool myself

Just use a black wash like Nuln Oil or Badab Black

and do what thin it down?

Nah just wash it down with black, ties down all the colours

For the grey lines, you could try drybrushing (allthough thats a rougher faded in look)
But for edge highlights you want to thin the paint a little, use a brush with a nice tip, remove the excess paint fromt he brush, and paint with the side of the brushes bristles where atall possible.
Give it a go on the next one.

Another good way to do black I find, is to prime grey, and drubrush or otherwise highlight it upto a lighter grey. then wash nuln oil, and again if its not dark enough.

A cheaper (per ml - not as a one off use) wash is to get acrylic artsits inks,flow aid, and matte medium from the art store Liquitex make very nice ones of all three.

try imperial primer. it's pretty much a black wash but it is extra watered down.

What was the phrase? "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," was it? Your best bet in the future is to try and tighten up the edgelining, avoiding the issue, entirely. Until then, I'd actually be going back in with regular paint, not a glaze.

It's much easier to paint up to a line that it is to paint the line, itself. Since your surfaces appear to be a flat color, you wouldn't be destroying any previous work by going back in with your black and "cutting in" to tighten up the existing lines.

Currently, the color step is strong enough that a glaze will darken it, but isn't really going to create a blend... at least not without many layers and a decent amount of brush control, which is your current issue. If you do want to glaze it, though, a black wash will work, as mentioned. "Glaze" has been a general term for a technique long before GW put out their current product range - you can do it with dilute paints or inks and you can do it with pre-mixed washes (just apply thin coats to avoid pooling, thereby giving you an even tinting effect). 10:1 (medium:paint) may be a bit extreme for a mix, though - you want to drop the opacity, but not so much that you barely notice the effect. This is assuming, though, that you thin further with water (tweaking their behavior, more than their opacity) while painting. Used neat, that would be a good starting point, as you can always add another drop or two of black, as needed.

Thanks for all the advice everyone, I did 2 washes of nuln oil, one only over the lines then one over the entire model. This is what I got and it is something I can be happy with I think.

Also, mixing your grey paint with black would be a good idea to make it not stand out too much. As it is now it looks extremely unnatural.

I usually hit the entire model with the blue glaze. I think it gives the black (and grey) a nice look.