Can I please get some recommendations on using static grass on bases. When I followed the directions on the canister I purchased it ends up looking like clumps of green hair. Not awful, but not the effect I'm looking for. How do I get it to stand up without tweezers and hours of labor?
basing with static grass (flock)
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I posted this recently, give it a shot (or just look at my minis & wait for someone else to post 
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"...thin superglue - scatter grass - turn mini upside down - tap base firmly - turn upright - blow gently up toward his knees from below, all around, to stand more strands up - leave to dry - brush out all little strands from his armpits, etc"
http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36686
After that it's inks & paint time!
Cheers, B.
)..."...thin superglue - scatter grass - turn mini upside down - tap base firmly - turn upright - blow gently up toward his knees from below, all around, to stand more strands up - leave to dry - brush out all little strands from his armpits, etc"
http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36686
After that it's inks & paint time!
Cheers, B.
The technique I use is to take my base, already coated in painted ballast (small rocks) with larger chunks of a larger rock meant for railroad track decoration. Once those are painted and drybrushed I add a little white glue around the larger rocks and anywhere else I want a bit of grass, then I dip the base into my flock. When I pull it out I blow off the excess and blow upward to get it to stand a little. Afterwards I drybrush the grass with a light yellow and then again with a little white to give it some highlights. You can see my recent post to see what this ends up looking like.
I used a vacuum cleaner (unfortunately I do not know any more where I have read about this trick originally, sorry):
1. Brush glue to the surface. I have thinned the glue with water, so I was able to brush really everything.
2. Scatter the grass - I did it by using a plastic shaker.
3. Directly use the vacuum cleaner in a short distance to the surface. The grass already should be fixed strong enough to the glue in order not to be sucked in - but it will be aligned without any difficulties in the air flow - and in the end stand upright more or less perfectly.
When you want to glue grass to larger areas by using this technique, be sure to do only small sections of it at one time, one after the other. Otherwise - when doing too large sections at one time - the glue in some sections already might be almost dry and the grass therefore completely fixed. And you won't get any chance any more to get it upright...
Better do a first try on some cardboard.
1. Brush glue to the surface. I have thinned the glue with water, so I was able to brush really everything.
2. Scatter the grass - I did it by using a plastic shaker.
3. Directly use the vacuum cleaner in a short distance to the surface. The grass already should be fixed strong enough to the glue in order not to be sucked in - but it will be aligned without any difficulties in the air flow - and in the end stand upright more or less perfectly.
When you want to glue grass to larger areas by using this technique, be sure to do only small sections of it at one time, one after the other. Otherwise - when doing too large sections at one time - the glue in some sections already might be almost dry and the grass therefore completely fixed. And you won't get any chance any more to get it upright...
Better do a first try on some cardboard.
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for something like this just use pva glue and drop clumps of static grass onto the glue, shake of access and then wait to dry.
quick wash with a mid tone green and when dry light drybrush with khaki.
remember to keep the static grass in a plastic tub, a quick shake before you use it and it's charged up once again.
Hope that helps.
quick wash with a mid tone green and when dry light drybrush with khaki.
remember to keep the static grass in a plastic tub, a quick shake before you use it and it's charged up once again.
Hope that helps.
You'll soon realise that we are all Evil, Warped, Twisted and after the soul of your firstborn.
Oh and what ever you do DO NOT STAND between a CMON'er and the Coffee pot.
I don't think you need static charge at all.
I always do patches because they look like tufts of grass and much more interesting than a solid cover.
Thin PVA with a little water.
I add just a little dark green acrylic so that the groundwork ends up a little green under each patch.
Blob onto the base so each stands up proud of the surface.
Sprinkle static grass on, picking it up using tweezers.
Pick the figure up and hold it side on over some container or other to catch the grass.
Tap the base a coupla times.
Most of the static grass that didn't stick drops into the container.
Blow on the base to remove the rest.
It always stands up for me.
When dry I dry brush a little light colour on.
I always do patches because they look like tufts of grass and much more interesting than a solid cover.
Thin PVA with a little water.
I add just a little dark green acrylic so that the groundwork ends up a little green under each patch.
Blob onto the base so each stands up proud of the surface.
Sprinkle static grass on, picking it up using tweezers.
Pick the figure up and hold it side on over some container or other to catch the grass.
Tap the base a coupla times.
Most of the static grass that didn't stick drops into the container.
Blow on the base to remove the rest.
It always stands up for me.
When dry I dry brush a little light colour on.
