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You want to make the texture of your base before applying the ironearth. Use whatever you want for this, rocks, sand, Cork. Once this is done, paint that textured area with a regular paint in a Martian red tone, then apply the ironearth on the clear areas, with a little overlap to help it all fit together. Once they are both dry and your crackles are in, you can drybrush with a light orange or fleshtone to tie it all together. Doing it this way will give a base that looks natural, with rocky areas and cracked areas like you'd see in real life. You don't want to apply Cork or rocks over the top of the iron earth as it will look weird and unnatural.

Yeah, that basically ^ good practice for mixing paint.


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You can also just apply the ironcrust to the areas you want texture, then apply the ironearth to the other areas, again with a little overlap/mixing while still wet to get a nicely flowing base. This is probably better for smaller bases. It's how the earth/crust paints were designed to be used.