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Would like to know if anyone has any good formulas/techniques for painting mud weathering on Imperial Guard infantry. I am not a huge fan of Guardsmen who look fresh out of boot camp and want to have my guys look weathered and in the midst of battle with blood, mud and all.

Mud... I'd say stipple the colours you use on your bases on their boots/pants.

 Matthew wrote:
Mud... I'd say stipple the colours you use on your bases on their boots/pants.

This, just flick some of the paint you're using on the base onto the boots and lower legs.

For weathering the armour, I suggest sponge weathering, carefully applied to it only hits the armour plates and not the fatigues. Take a small amount of paint on a sponge, dab it on some tissue until it's almost all gone, dab the rest onto the mini where you want the damage. I suggest black or brown if you have light armour, silver or gunmetal if it's darker.

As far as blood goes, I'd use it very sparingly. Unlike Astartes who have the strength and endurance to live long enough to get covered in blood (theirs and their enemy's), Guardsmen can't take a hit very well. You'll get away with the odd patch through clothing, but I wouldn't go with much as if a guardsmen is bleeding that profusely, he's probably already out of action.

If you regularly fight big scary things such as tyranids, consider painting a few patches of dark fabric around the groin area. For, y'know, realism.

Mud is a very nice effect to show the heavy march through a drenched wet landscape.

One thing to think of, to make it nice, is that when mud dries it becomes lighter, so if you use light tones almost kaki further up the boots or legs and the a darker brown closer to the ground to get the effect that it is partially dried and caked onto the clothing.

Check out this tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4LvLh_R5qY

Mdlbuildr wrote:
Check out this tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4LvLh_R5qY

Thanks a lot man this is exactly what I was looking for.

 granander wrote:
Mud is a very nice effect to show the heavy march through a drenched wet landscape.

One thing to think of, to make it nice, is that when mud dries it becomes lighter, so if you use light tones almost kaki further up the boots or legs and the a darker brown closer to the ground to get the effect that it is partially dried and caked onto the clothing.

That's actually a nifty thought, I've never heard nor seen that done.