Gavin Thorne wrote:
I don't think you're tagging correctly, or possibly using an incorrect address. I looked up the image's address using Firefox's View Image Details right-click option, then pasted it between img tags:

 Gavin Thorne wrote:
Hmmm, coming up now that I added the images to my post. If I had to guess, I'd say that starting with a Russ Grey and highlighting to Fenrisian Grey, adding white to the Fenrisian for your final highlight would be spot on for a comparable tone of blue/gray. Nuln oil would work for your shading around engine intakes, but you might get better results using Eshin Grey as your basecoat, for both the line detail and the engine weathering.

I believe the canopies are more of a bronze tone than brass or gold. Could be the angle though.

As for the symbol, it's probably freehanded with painstaking patience. You could always print your own, though. Dakka has a few articles detailing that process.

That Phoenix looks much more gray than blue gray to me though.

 Gavin Thorne wrote:
Yeah, that's about it.

Prime in a flat gray and basecoat in a dark gray (Eshin or otherwise, I was looking more at tones and depths than saturation of pigment).

At that point, I'd apply a masking agent via brush on the cracks, then highlight with your lighter shades using your airbrush. It's either that or use tape and paper to mask off the area around the lines after you paint the rest then fill the lines with the darker grey, which is probably more work than you want to do.

Something some folks have done is to use a paint pen to fill the line detail on eldar models. It's not always as clean as I'd like it to be, but liquid masking agents probably wouldn't be any better. Depends on how steady your hand is.

BTW, I'm getting a 403 error on the pics now. Did they get dropped or locked by the host?