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I'm fairly new to painting and I own a limited range of only GW's paints. I got some tips from few other places so this is thee plan so far:

Whites: Celestra Grey, then Ulthuan Grey and for extreme highlights White White
Oranges: base Skrag Brown or Tuskgor Fur, then brown wash, then Tau Light Ochre for highlights, and for edge highlights Tau Light mixed with some Whites.

How to do those gray blacks on the pants? And what about that green holster, Deathforest Green then Athonian Camo? What about rifle stock, could it be Zandri Dust then brown wash? Gun looks like a lot of trouble, I'd probably go simpler, just black and grays. How to do those gray grays straps on boots, almost non-metallic metallic?

That there is a very good example of hot/cold contrasts.

If you want a mini to pop you can either use colour contrast (look up a colour wheel, use colours at around 120 degrees for max contrast) or hot/cold contrast (which is similar).

In short, 'hot' or 'warm' colours tend to be tinged toward yellows and browns, and cold toward blues. We tend to interpret 'warm' colours as soft, and 'cold' colours as hard materials. It's a trick you can use to make a model feel like it's made of differing things.

This is what you bear in mind when selecting colours (or buying them - there's no substitute for seeing them in the flesh.

So you've got:
A 'cold' light grey on the boots (mix a little blue in with your shade).

A 'warm' dark grey on the fatigues and shoulder pads (highlight your dark grey by adding a yellow/bone or flesh colour to it). You can make a warm dark grey by mixing the same with black.

The orange is kept hot - adding a bone/tan to it to highlight and stop it going yellow.

You can also tint areas by using an appropriate wash/glaze mix - brownish to warm things up, blueish to cool them down.

That particular model screams vallejo / studio giraldez to me.

Azhday wrote:

How to do those gray blacks on the pants?

I would paint the pants black and drybrush a cold grey tone, then wash with nuln oil if you need to cover up any grey that got into the recesses and do some soft edge highlighting where necessary.

Azhday wrote:
And what about that green holster, Deathforest Green then Athonian Camo?

You could do that if you're good at wet-blending your wash into the lighter green, but I'd use the drybrush again. Maybe if Caliban green is too dark, a warpstone glow and a moot green drybrush I'd say. I like contrast, so I'd go for Caliban green.

Azhday wrote:
What about rifle stock, could it be Zandri Dust then brown wash?

Spot-on there. That's what I'd do.

Azhday wrote:
Gun looks like a lot of trouble, I'd probably go simpler, just black and grays. How to do those gray grays straps on boots, almost non-metallic metallic?

Gun doesn't appear to be too difficult. I'd go with a black base coat, an eshin grey drybrush thereafter, layer on some sotek green on the prominent parts that appear to not be totally greyscale and then highlight with something similar to a lightened fenris grey. Boots and straps appear to be a neutral (administratum) grey with a wash and a cool lighting effect with highlights. You can accomplish that either by wet blending a super-light grey and a dark grey or drybrush the super-light grey highlight.

Not saying that's by the book. That's just how I'd accomplish that paint job.

Not going to go into specific colours, but I see a lot of blends, layering and glazing on that model. Would be astonished if there was any dry brushing. Without wanting to dampen any enthusiasm, you're going to need either a heap of natural talent or a lot of practise at the abovementioned techniques before recreating a paint job like that.