I tried something different last night while painting the olive drab base onto a tank last night. In looking at photos of tanks in WWII books I noticed that the paint almost always has several different shades of the base color mixed together. A kind of splatchy look to it due to weather, and what not, I'm sure. So what I did was mix up three different shades of olive drab, each one just a bit lighter than the next. I then put the first layer on with a brush using a kind of scubbing, blotting, and twisting action. I did the same with each shade. If it looked to light I used the dark base color, if to dark I used the lighter shade. After layering all of the shades together using the blotting, twisting, and scrubbing action I was really surprised to see it looked very close to what I was seeing in my Histrory of WWII book. It also much to my suprise had the texture of worn and weather beaten metal when finished. I don't have a digital camera to show it here but I thought I would like to share this with everyone. :-)