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I want to achieve the effect in this picture:



The painter used a brand of paint I don't have access to right now. Can anyone give me a few tips to get that colour with GW paints?

Black primer, heavy dry brush Vallejo German grey, light drybrushing eshin grey, codex grey, highlight administerum grey, skull white; weathering with chardon granite, storm vermin fur.

IMO black primer will never achieve that paint job. Prime it gray and go over or with a very light grey then highlight the edges with white. Wash the recesses with a brown wash.

How about taking Dawnstone, and then mixing thaqt with white in 3:1, 2:1, 1:1 etc mixes until it's bright enough?

No, not black primer.

Use the new white primer from gw. Wash the recesses only with diluted nuhln oil, or apply a skavenblight dinge wash with lahmian medium, again in the recesses only. Then layer with ulthuan grey, layer the raised areas again, and do some white scar highlights, or perhaps pallid wych.

This is not easy to achieve. Not to be negative about it, and you should experiment, but this is a difficult paint scheme to paint.

personally, i paint all of my whites (and all of my other colors, even yellow) over black primer, so it is definitely not hard to achieve, it just takes a progression of layers from dark to light...
for time saving, grey or white primer is better, for sure...

this is an example of my black/grey/white layering



i would not take this approach for a whole army, unless you are a masochist...

cheers
jah