| kodiakblair | 25 May 2020 5:24 a.m. PST |
Only do 2mm troops. Painting dirt on them would be ridiculous. |
Frederick  | 25 May 2020 6:09 a.m. PST |
Most of my troops are dirty boots but I do have some units that are parade ground pretty and a few units that are very down and dirty |
| Lascaris | 25 May 2020 6:26 a.m. PST |
Depends on the period. 19th century and earlier are mostly parade ground/muddy boots (except for barbarian types), 20th century are covered in dirt. |
| Corporal Fagen | 25 May 2020 10:16 a.m. PST |
"Muddy" boots but only because i'm sloppy painting the base |
| robert piepenbrink | 25 May 2020 11:28 a.m. PST |
Usually pretty clean, and frequently somewhat spiffier than historical in the Napoleonic Wars and more regular than was normal in the AWI. They only have to please me, after all. As for moderns, who at table-top distance and scale can tell? (My WWII forces being 6mm only makes me more determined to paint them so I can tell the sides apart.) |
| Florida Tory | 25 May 2020 12:29 p.m. PST |
All of the choices, depending on period, casting, and painting style. rick |
 Sgt Slag | 25 May 2020 8:25 p.m. PST |
I game with 25-28mm fantasy mini's, as well as 54mm plastic Army Men figures. I apply The Dip/Royal Walnut to almost all of them. It is quick, effective, and efficient. I will tell you, it is amazing when applied to Skeletons. They end up with a "just dug up", appearance, which I think is quite marvelous. For plastic Army Men figures, it gives them a look as though they have been fighting in the trenches, and the mud, for some time. It conveys a look of combat experience, which I find quite pleasing. YMMV. Cheers! |
| The Last Conformist | 25 May 2020 11:53 p.m. PST |
Depends on the subject, on my mood and level of hurry, and it's sort of evolved over my career as a painter – early on I did little or no dirt, then I had a Devlan-Mud-over-everything phase, and now I tend to default to somewhere in between. |
| Col Durnford | 26 May 2020 6:39 a.m. PST |
Also depends on the troop types. My colonials are parade ground for brits and Zulus. Vietnam collection quite dirty. |
| Yesthatphil | 26 May 2020 9:37 a.m. PST |
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| COL Scott ret | 27 May 2020 1:42 a.m. PST |
It depends, some troops some eras more most others pretty much none. I mean I have been covered in swamp much and desert sand – any blob looks the same when so covered. If I spend time and money to find the best looking troops why would I hide it. |
| Saxondog | 27 May 2020 9:16 a.m. PST |
The grunge of realism. I used to paint ACW and Napoleonics….after they were done, I splashed not to well mixed watery brownish colors on their boots and pants. |
