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I have just received this beauty in the mail and have a few questions:

How can I paint this a little darker on the statue to give it slightly more age?
If paint faint red OSL on the eyes (as if glowing) would that detract from the model or is that setting/scene dependent?
If I paint the stone a lighter color (ancient stone like) would that draw the eyes away from the statue?
If it will is there a way to have it painted like ancient/old stone masonry (the base/lower section looks to much like jade to me) while still drawing the eyes to the statue?

Agrax earthshade or nuln oil wash would darken it down nicely, but you'd need to repair damage to the verdigris if you do that.

I don't think I would OSL the eyes personally, you could potentially just paint them with a clear red to make them look like gems? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrNR-1I4g3w

I don't like the stone in it's current colour, personally, but it should be easy to fix with a drybrush/sponge of a medium grey into a sand colour. I am not sure if that would detract - the material just doesn't look like the marble it is painted as (particularly in the damage areas).

The best way to test this would be to do it in photoshop, or look at other examples of brass statues on sandstone - I don't think it would be a problem.

Just to be clear, that's the stock photo of a kit you received unpainted, right?

@KB thank you for some insight I have been doing research on a few things. unfortunately I don't have Photoshop and buying it isn't enticing at all.

@butter yes that is the stock photo from Kabuki Models website, and the same on the package. Currently it is sitting unpainted

I have also been thinking of going with a brownish oil wash and use the technical paints from GW; but I'm still researching while I wait for my primer to come in.

you could use warplock bronze to darken it, with subtle applications of nihilakh oxide to contrast, for the stone, glazes and dry brushes are the key to getting a worn old masonry look.
start with a medium grey to prime, then lighten that grey with bone and apply a couple of coats. now apply glazes. green, orange, blue, red etc. it will look slightly odd at first, but then hit it with a drybrush of bone lightened grey, give it a thinned down wash of agrax, then a final dry brush of pure bone.

Thanks for the help, with that technique I guess in order to get the colors of the pict below it would be medium grey with light black washes and the bone dry brushes?

Yeah. I forgot to add once im done i use lustrian undergrowth to stipple on mossy patches

Would streaks of a green glaze give the impression of green moss or plant matter on the walls. I was thinking of it but I'm afraid it wont mix with the stone.

Biggest question is where is this thing located? was it outside taking the elements?

or inside a temple?

Was it a temple in the jangles, in like 100% humidity?

What is its story?

Truly historicly untouched by man bronze will probably turn nearly all green

The stone would most likely have a lot of water streaks, and possible mold/moss growth over the ages.

Painting stone however... depending on the stone i like to just use white mixed with black loosly and add a little bit of a spot color. paint the whole thing grey, then glaze up and down in different proportions to get variations,.

My idea is that it has been out in a forgotten ancient temple with little weathering to give it an air of mystery of why so little for something so old. It will be going on a diorama set in the 40k time frame in a jungle, but the rest of the story is something I want to keep secret until I unveil to DD.

Also please forgive the amount of questions, painting isn't my favorite part of the hobby but I want to learn and make my models look good.

Eh thats no issue.

OK then if thats the case. Painting the bronze should be pretty simple. Personally for old bronze i like going black mixed with burnt umber type color highlight up burnt umber. it should be fairly dull.

Then do the patina with a turquoise color tinnnnned down into a glaze. hit the majority of it letting the brown come through and the recesses generally turquoise.

If you want shiny stuff then you will need to find a good metallic bronze and just go with that.

The stone If you are going that style of jungly stone.

it seems to have a little bit of a warm brown color mixed with it. you can then glaze over it with a greyish blue to get that weathered look i think

I was thinking of doing a burnt umber style of oil wash for smooth transition from light to dark and use GW Oxide is select recesses. Doing that should give the looks of old with patina still visible

Same difference

yep, but I'm exited I have been wanting to make a diorama and now I'm going to with this model, it needs a diorama

Green glaze wouldnt give the effect of moss i dont think, more of a sewer style slime.