It's Snow Joke......

...Its true, I have started testing my snow for my biggest board and scenery project for a couple of years!

First off I have been using this awesome tut, which is how I am basically making my snow with a couple of adjustments.


Ultrawerke - Snow tut


My materials below... (the floor polish is same as Klear/future - UK peeps can get it from Lakeland plastics)

Its hard to get the consitancy right. I actually used boiled water to mix the PVA as I was having troubles with not mixing it down enough and was getting globs of the baking powder. That helped smoothing. Here are some test bases at different consistancies:

Its not showing up so well on the pic - but I was having yellowing issues. I have seen some other snow tuts where they add a small amount of acrylic paint. dont add to much as it makes it crumbly! lol

I found a thinner mix is better as I can literally just pour the stuff on and it pretty much shapes itself with a little help!

I should get better at spreading it round with a bit of practice - I just hope it doesent dry yellow! If this is ok, I'm set to go about snowing my entire board. My aim is to make a really atmospheric board as I rarely use it, so want somewhere special when not club gaming. As its not being used that much - it should stay tidy for years to come.

You can see my board as it stands here

Spent my christmas money! NEW AIRBRUSH!!!

It has arrived! I'm going to have some fun with this. I have adjustable nozzles, dual action and should compliment my other airbrush.

I can fully recommend these guys - fast delivery and very helpful...

everythingairbrush

My plan is to work on scenery next. Im turning my board into a winter wonderland of snow. I have some snow tutorials to test and will post my results tomorrow.

I have bunkers to paint, fortress of redemption.. all sorts!

Big Mek Painted! (Base to do...)

Finally got the motivation to finish this guy, I'm really sick of painting Orks now - but I had to get him finished for gaming/tourny purposes. If Im honest the conversion was a bit rushed and I dont love it. I'm pleased with the glow effect and I have used my new Vallejo florescent colours. I also used my matt medium to make washes which was great. So the paint job although not 100% on my part - I'm pretty pleased with it.

IoB box glued!

Ok spent the best part of yesterday putting together this set. This is just the kind of thing I would have loved when I was younger. I think these sets are awesome - great smell and loads of plastic! The only niggle I have is they havent supplied movement trays. Now I'm a WFB newb, but I still know that trying to move those models in units - esp the Skaven would but a pain. GW you tight wods put the movement trays in there!! Luckily my friend Drax has lent me some. I should have been playing today, but nurgles rot has set in at my house so Im going to paint that big mek instead.