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After rejoining the hobby after many many years I've started adding to my existing army of Space Wolves.

Have begun painting some Void Claws(keeping in mind painting was never my strong point),done the main armour with an airbrush (first attempt).

I'm not sure whether to Nuln Oil the model now, what are the thoughts of the much more experienced?

I don't want to end up with them being really dark.

With nuln oil, the danger is making things look dirty rather than shaded. Applying it across flat areas like plates will lead to blobbing and pooling in many cases, unless you are diligently cleaning up every panel. It's possible, but it's a pain.
If you apply wash solely into the joints, panel lines and tubing between armoured areas, it will give a very nice shade, but you'll have to clean up any stray brush strokes. That will take far less time, and give a cleaner Astartes look.

However I'd use their dark blue wash (or mix nuln with it) as black is very stark.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

However I'd use their dark blue wash (or mix nuln with it) as black is very stark.

Thanks for your reply, would you wash the whole model with the blue wash or just the joint etc?

Agreed the dark blue wash works really well with greys. Nuln oil is dangerous. It's great for smokey exhausts, grimy mechanicum or ork models but I wouldn't use it on power armour myself.

Mascot wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

However I'd use their dark blue wash (or mix nuln with it) as black is very stark.

Thanks for your reply, would you wash the whole model with the blue wash or just the joint etc?

The joints and then tidy up. You could try the citadel glaze, but test it on something first, it's very much an Ultramarines blue rather than a grey.

Just to be clear, they sell a blue wash "shade" and a blue glaze that will go over flat areas marginally better. It's very bright though.