First thing I would do is go out and get a quality brown primer, then look for Krylon plastic-fusion camoflague ultra-matte (I found it al Walmart). They make a Khaki and an Olive that are GREAT. After they are primed, give them a full coat of color. Let them dry, then “dust” on another coat of color, from farther way, so it lands already dry and leaves a slightly dusty look. That will give the ink a better surface to stick to. After the dusty coat is very dry (maybe a couple hours) Then wash the vehicles with a brown ink (make sure you dont get one of those brown inks that looks pink or reddish). Set the vehicles right side up, and let the ink puddle. Dab up the excessfrom the bottom of the treads and any places where it puddled with a damp paintbrush (if you use a dry paintbrush, it will suck up all the ink and leave a bright spot).
Give them a good day or so to dry, then dry-brush some khaki back over them manually with a brush. Just enough to get the color back to khaki on the major flat-spots. Then go back over them with an even quicker dry-brushing of bone-white (just enough to catch the edges and rivets).
If yoiu ar going to do treads and other stuff like that: You will need a tiny paint pin-brush, and a lot of time. Try painting treads with a VERY dark reddish-brown, and then just a very quick, light dry-brush of DARK silver over that brown.
To make rubber wheels look good (jeeps, armored cars & such) paint the tires a dark flat grey.