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Better with a darker paint or a lighter one?

Repainting my termies into a pale/deathly green color using a combination of catachan green, gretchin green and nergling green. Haven't fully decided which would be the base coat yet but I think I want the nergling green for the robes/decals on the models.

I wanna dry brush the 3rd green on but my experience dry brushing is very limited beyond what I've done on pure accident.

When people dry brush, is it usually with a darker or lighter color?

Also, having limited experience with these particular greens, how well do they mix together? I'm trying to have that plague marines color scheme, but not all the extra looks to em. Just want death/plague armor colors

From the way you are describing your painting process your dry brush coat will be near the end,thus it will be a highlight and the lightest colour. Dry brushing should only leave a small amount of paint on the raised parts giving the impression of light reflecting

Always go from dark to light in my humble opinion on painting

Drybrushing may not be the way to go with terminators. Its a technique more suited to rough/textured surfaces. Where terminator have a lot of large flat panels. I'm sure you still dryrush them,but perhaps blending + edge highlighting will look better? Good luck however you choose to paint them .

Doing a lighter color ten wash for dark areas and glaze for large areas seems to work well, then go back with as dry brush of lighter color on edges only. IMHO, this works well and is easy to blend with gw paints