Citadel Dawnstone Layer Paint is designed to be multi-layered. This dark gray color is slightly transparent so you can use it to build your color over several layers until you're happy with it. Now the paint does require a bit of practice to use, but the results are well worth it.

The layer paints are best used as a 2-step highlight, so two paints for each color but this is a guideline. For example, Dawnstone can be combined with Administration Gray. You start with the darker of the two and apply it to the surfaces that you eventually want to provide this dark gray color.

Because the paint is a bit transparent you will continue to see the base color a bit, but by using Dawnstone together with Administratum Gray you can use that transparency to apply the layers. If you apply the lightest color after the darkest color in maybe 1 or two layers, the last highlight of the lightest color will ensure that you have a great result.

The color of Citadel Dawnstone (22-49) is similar to: The Army Painter Uniform Gray (WP1118); Old Citadel Codex Grey; Vallejo Game Color Cold Gray (72050); Vallejo Model Color Basalt Gray (70869); Instar Moon Grey; Rackham Gray of Darkness (45); Reaper Master Rainy Gray (9038); Scale75 Artic Blue Matt.