Xpress Muddy Ground Acrylic

A dirty brown tone of muddy ground. A single-coat acrylic paint for running gear, boots, wheels and the undersides of vehicles, where soil is meant to settle.

Manufacturer Vallejo
Product EAN8591111783599

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3.96 €
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Soil that has been driven over

Muddy Ground has the color of a soaked country track: a murky brown with no rusty or ocher pull, turned rather toward gray. It is exactly this tone that stays on fenders, in a wheel arch and on the soles of boots. Because the paint runs off into the hollows as it dries, it gathers by itself in the grooves of a tread pattern, between track links and in the corners of running gear, that is where real mud would settle.

The usual snag and the defense against it

Anyone who takes on a whole side of a vehicle at once will reach a place where the first stroke has already dried, and the join will stay visible as a sharp boundary across the area. The snag begins at the moment one chooses too large a section. Divide the area according to the real edges, seams and lines of rivets, work always from edge to edge only, and keep the wet front of the stroke moving. Nobody will find a join on an edge; a join in the middle of a door they will.

Typical use

  • Wheel arches, fenders and the undersides of a hull
  • The tread pattern of tires and the gaps between track links
  • The soles, boots and trouser legs of figures
  • A ground under pigments and splashes of dried soil

The effect is stronger if you let the shade rise from the ground upward and fade it away to nothing at the top. A sharp horizontal boundary of mud looks unnatural, whereas gradual weakening matches the way dirt builds up. Most of it belongs in the space behind the wheels, where the tread throws it, and in the gaps between the hull and the frame, from where nobody would ever wash it out. A dry area will take further glazes and powders.

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FAQ

For a first coat, yes; it gives the areas a dirty tone and fills the hollows. Three-dimensional deposits of dried soil, however, are made with pastes and pigments, and the paint on its own is not enough for those.

Keep to the lower third of a vehicle and let the shade fade away at the top. A sharp horizontal line gives away that it is a coat of paint and not dirt.

You chose too large a section and the edge of the stroke dried before you got back to it. Divide the area by edges and seams and work from edge to edge.

Yes, it serves well on ruts in soil, on the edges of roads and on wooden thresholds where water runs down.

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Xpress Muddy Ground Acrylic

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