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I paint my 1/72nd scale wargames figures this way. I bought a tin of translucent brown paint (intended for furniture etc.) for shading sand, khaki, etc. uniforms, and made my own dark grey from a tin of colourless paint plus a tube of black pigment for use on field grey, olive drab, and similar colours. I find this works better than a wash because it’s more controllable and doesn’t run down to the bottom.See what you mean now. Old Boris Gamges there (a GW 28mm I think, he’s standing on a penny) was shaded in some places with W&N inks to achieve a similar effect.
Here’s some Caesar Miniatures British troops to show the effect:
At left is unpainted (duh …), the one in the middle just has the basic colours, the one on the right is the same but with nothing more than a coat of the translucent brown paint.