Looking for advice on mixing a colour

[Commander Dawnstar]

I'm interested in recreating the blue armour colour from this piece for my Tau, but based on my limited research (hex codes essentially) I'm yet to find anything that feels close enough straight out of the pot. As I have essentially zero experience with mixing paints and a poor eye for gauging colours, I was wondering if any of you with more experience at this sort of thing could advise me on which paints I might want to use to try and produce something in that region?

 

Here's a different example of the colour if it's of any more use.

[Grotsmasha]

I honestly think you could achieve that colour by glazing a light blue over grey. I would practice on a spare piece of plastic to determine just how much medium/water you need to add to the lightest blue GW sells.

 

Cheers,

Jono

[Bung]

What you have there is a a very desaturated blue, to achive this you need a blue tone and mix it with a neutral grey (a grey consisting of 1:1 black and white).

Or you could look at other color ranges than GW if you dont want to mix paints. Vallejo Modellcolor Grey-Blue or Pale-Blue go in that direction, maybe Scalecolor Beringe Blue too.

[Bloody Legionnaire]

To my eyes I bet you "the fang" would get you pretty close to that color. For highlights/layers you could probably mix "the fang" and "russ grey" together at 1:1 as well. 

[Commander Dawnstar]

Thanks for all the tips, guys. I'm still not entirely sure if I'll be going with that scheme but you've definitely given me a lot of useful ideas if I decide to go that way.

[NiceGuyAdi]

If this is going to be for an army, for consistency's sake you might want to mix large batches of paint ready to go, rather than doing it each paint session. I've got a 30ml dropper bottle, which conveniently holds 2 bottles of GW paint, with the blue/black mix I use as a base coat for my Raven Guard. You may find a bottle each of Dawnstone/Administratum Grey and The Fang/Thunderhawk Blue gets you close to what you're after.