Thanks for the replies. I'm still new to the whole basing thing, and am pretty much just doing something a little simple for the whole army.
I noticed the pooling on the first few things I did, thought....frak...then had the thought that it actually adds to the flavor of the army. They've just been out there fighting so damn much and for so long stuff is dirty and they don't have a lot of laundry time. Took a lot of stress off