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My Tempestus Scions are painted in yellow olive (Vallejo if it matters), basically a drab green. What color wash would work best, and what would be good for edge highlighting? I mostly have Vallejo, but there's GW paint locally as well. I've always been rather cruddy at highlighting and not very inventive for washes, so any advice would be appreciated.

Athonian Camoshade should work nicely for a wash for that.

 Joyous_Oblivion wrote:
Athonian Camoshade should work nicely for a wash for that.

So a green shade would be best for green armor? I've never been much good at shades. I used to use a green shade for my orc skin in wfb, but I was going more for blending my highlights with that.

or a brown. that paint is not exactly the same hue as the GW green wash. gota experiment

Athonian Camoshade is a brownish green. Depending on what you want the final colour to look like, you could use a green, brown or black wash, then a highlight colour that complements that. So if you use Athonian Camoshade, perhaps a khaki colour as a highlight. Mix it with the base colour if it's too stark on its own.

My recipe for Imperial Guard fatigues is to basecoat with