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Once its dry, what do people do to add depth etc to the base of this texture colour

A wash of Nuln Oil and a drybrush of a lighter color

Personally, I tend to give it a few washes, for example one of Nuln Oil all over, then one or two of Agrax Earthshade in a few selective patches. It helps add a bit of interest to the base. Then yeah, a light drybrush when that's all dry.

 feltmonkey wrote:
Personally, I tend to give it a few washes, for example one of Nuln Oil all over, then one or two of Agrax Earthshade in a few selective patches. It helps add a bit of interest to the base. Then yeah, a light drybrush when that's all dry.

any colour in particular from he gw or ap range you recomend?

The Citadel Painting System PDF recommends Longbeard Grey as a highlight for Astrogranite.

If you don't have the collection of dry paints, an alternative to longbeard grey is pallid wych flesh, which is a very useful "lighter than grey but slightly tinted and not quite white" color.

Personally, after astrograninte I would wash nuhln, and before that dries, add a few splashes of agrax in random, "lower" spots -- this makes it a lot less uniform, and gives it more depth. No need to clean off the brush, just let it muddy in all together. Then drybrush hard with administratum grey, and then selectively or lightly drybrush with pallid wych flesh.

I've been giving mine a liberal wash of Agrax, followed by a very light drybrush of Ceramite White, looks pretty good inky opinion

 dabossofdaskullz wrote:

 feltmonkey wrote:
Personally, I tend to give it a few washes, for example one of Nuln Oil all over, then one or two of Agrax Earthshade in a few selective patches. It helps add a bit of interest to the base. Then yeah, a light drybrush when that's all dry.

any colour in particular from he gw or ap range you recomend?

Any flat grey seems to work well. I actually do something very similar to Talys - Administratum Grey, then a light grey I've mixed. Sometimes I use Stormvermin Fur then mix some white or light grey into it for the lighter highlight, because that has a slightly brown tint to it. I haven't tried Pallid Wytch Flesh - I'll give that a go next time I'm painting tarmac bases.

Thanks eveyone for the tips, going to have to go check my paint collection and see what I got.