Snow flocking for bases- recommendations?

[Barks]

Hi TWW,

 

I’m looking to make some bases painted as earth, then with some areas of snow. Does anyone have any tips or tricks for snow bases? In my FLGSs they’ve got Galeforce 9, 4Ground, and Noch snow effect flocking.

 

Regards

 

Barks

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[paintpig]

Carb soda with white glue rings a bell, white tile corking or gap filler would be my choice. Depends on how easily they can be applied for a particular situation, I think the (acrylic) gap filler should be easy enough for terrain if your dabbing a bit on the troops or vehicles then go for the carb (baking) soda.

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[Paul]

I recently did some snow bases on some Ion Age figs, and I really like how they turned out: I just mixed bicarbonate of soda, white glue, and some white paint (to stop the bicarb from yellowing) into a paste and applied it on top of the earth base with a sculpting tool.

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[willz]

Wood glue and Gale force snow, some white paint and winter grass.

 

[Katie L]

Glass Microspheres. What’s it really used for? Adding to resin to make it lighter when you’re filling volumes while repairing or assembling fibreglass or cars or so on.

They don’t absorb moisture, odours or in fact anything else. They don’t change colour (indeed, they’re colourless, like ice crystals and only look white in bulk) and it’s chemically stable for any reasonable expectation of the survival of you, me and human civilisation…

And they come in big cheap buckets. Frankly one of these will last you and your friends for some time to come.

http://www.easycomposites.co.uk/#!/resin-gel-silicone-adhesive/filler-powders-and-additives/general-fillers-and-additives/glass-bubbles-microballoons-microspheres.html

Mix it with combinations of water, thinner, white wood glue, acrylic medium, varnishes and white paint to get a whole range of snow effects.

Examples; https://www.fysh.org/~katie/wargames/pictures/flintloque/IMG_20140523_143735.jpg

Because you can mix it with things as well as pour it on “dry” to surfaces, you can very easily make dry crunchy snow, slush, runny snow, thin powdery coatings, the dusty stuff at the bottom of greatcoats, piled up snow, sparkly ice effects, footprints, icey looking stuff, dirty snow, mud/ice mixes, grass-poking-through snow… And it’s cheap enough you can afford to play with the effects.

 

 

[Mr. Average]

White sand, or unmixed plaster of Paris powder has worked well for me. Also crushed joint compound. But I happen to have access to a lot of building materials, it being my metier.

[paintpig]

Well with all that to choose from Barks it sounds like your away.

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[paintpig]

@ Katie I was going to say microspheres aren’t much chop being a pretty dull colour but I saw you were using white paint. I thought of fumed glass which is brilliant white but quite dangerous if inhaled, perfectly safe once mixed in any liquid. I’ll try the micro spheres next time I’m in a position to borrow some.

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