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Greetings,

I'm looking to do an Eldar army and the only thing that had kept me from it is that all those clean smooth colors needed something to make them more 'grimdarky' for me. Also, since my painting skills are only slightly above those of a nearsighted rock I usually like to have something interesting about my scheme to help distract from the thick globs of paint everywhere. My solution is to do a little bit of theme combination and go with all the brightness of the Eldar, and base them with a WWI mud n' trenches theme (somebody has to be fighting all those IG armies, yes?)

My goal with the mud bases is to have a very wet effect. I've seen a lot of mud bases and recipes and rather like some of them, but too often they appear a little too dry for my tastes, my desire is to have the base resemple a muddy trench system that is being pounded by pouring rain. I've seen a mud basing using water effects (actually I even saw it somewhere on this site, but couldn't find it ever again, dorf!) and I really kind of liked the way it ended up looking. Has anyone used water effects in basing combined with mud, and if so what advice/suggestions do you have?

As a slight corollary - any advice for very wet mud other then water effects? My only other idea is using some brown ink on it to help make it a bit shinier.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts,
Thor.