Help Identifying Color

[Karnegal]

I'm altering my color scheme from one that was too white (used shadow grey base for skin and a bleached bone for the bulk of the crapace with the light blues I used for skin it ended up looking too white, and any amount of highlighting ended up as a waste beyond six inches.

Anyway I'm thinking of switching to something like this (I only have a small amount painted so while I'll be sad to strip and repaint them it won't be major).



My question is where the hell is the shadow grey? My best guess is that they used it as the base for the chitin and then went to grey in all but the deepest grooves. That or it's just the lightest highlight on the thing. I'm hoping for the former since I have a can of Shadow Grey spray base sitting on my shelf.

Also what sort of ink/base color would you (anyone) recommed. I like the look of a base then ink then highlights and I'd like to apply it. I have a lot of shades of blue in GW, Vallejo, and Reaper lines (High Elves are one of my two Fantasy armies so it adds up).

Don't beat your heads against the wall on this I'm not 100% sold on this scheme yet, so it's possible I'll change my mind again before I decide on a final scheme. Whatever I do I'm planning on snow basing though.

[wolffang]

the dark colour looks like midnight blue to me...

[rfly]

Hmmm, that means the middle tone is shadow grey in the darker area. So it can be darker or lighter depending where you look.

[hyperion]

the highlights in the tail seems shadow gray... I think they have used some midnight blue + shadow grey in the body, and then higlighted with shadow gray.

[hivefleetsiafu]

looks pretty cool, its pretty much a copy of my scheme except mine has black skin instead of blueish purple ;D