help.....Static Grass

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Pellimore

Member
Oh, I forgot

Ooops, I forgot to mention what I use to glue the sand. PVA or elmers works fine for me.

Another idea, don\'t throw out the possibilty of polystyrene glue (\"plastic glue,\" as I call it). If the base is plastic (which it usually is) the glue will melt, to a minor extent, the base so that the sand/flock/whatever you put on it won\'t look flat, rather slightly wavy. If you work the glue in right you can make some really realistic bases, lots of them, and in almost no time (good for the mass production of army building).

Have fun!
-Pellimore
 
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stu_witter

Guest
Quick and nice static flock...

I paint miniatures professionally for GW fanatic, forge world and heresy miniatures, if I\'m doing a grassy base on a character I use this method as it looks great on a figure and photographs well...

Glue a sand gravel mix to the base with pva. After it has dryed paint this with a mix of dark brown paint and ink. Thinning the paint makes it flow round the sand better, but using water means you\'ll need to do a couple of coats.
Drybrush this in stages all the way up to a beigey sand colour as a final light drybrush.
Load a brush with a little pva and gently drag over the sand and gravel - almost like drybrushing on the pva... but you need to add little blobs rather than smears.
Keep your static flock in a big zip lock bag - open the bag and put the miniature in part way hold it through the bag and seal the top... Now holding the miniature shake the whole thing - this will stick grass to the pva areas in little upward standing clumps. Something to do with being in the bag etc...
Wait to dry... NO blowing, tapping etc - you have only a little pva on and some of the fine detail may just fall off...
When this is dry take a medium soft brush and tickle all the grass to get it all to separate and stand up - the excess comes off... you can blow now to get the bits of the model that stuck on with static.
Now you drybrush the grass very very lightly with a soft brush with a very small amount of paint a drab colour then a bone colour.

This will get rid of the nylon look.

Hope that helps
 
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vincegamer

Active member
These last 2 sound great. I\'ll try them.
Just one question for stu_witter:
When do you remove the mini from the bag? Before or after the glue has dried?
 
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Pellimore

Member
stu_witter, thats a very interesting method. Do you have any pictures of a finished model with that technique?

Thanks for the advice,
Have fun!
-Pellimore
 
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stu_witter

Guest
Not at the mo sorry... the two minis on this site dont show the technique very well, and my old website is rather cruddy and is really low res. I am planning on adding my inquisitor warband. which has the most realistic looking bases I have ever done. sometime soon, so just check my minis in browse in a fortnight or so - if you are still interested.
 
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