Pafetikbazerkas foray into 15mm Flames of War

So finally a weekend with enough spare time to post my progress.

I thought the flocking process was going to be pretty straight forward and easy but this was first time with static grass

On my first few bases I tried some thinned down PVA, the thinning I think, my first mistake. It didn’t take very well to the base or the static grass and ended up with a mangy, balding effect on a layer of glossy PVA. So I think to myself, maybe some super glue. I source myself a bottle of superglue with brush applicator and set to it.

The super glue was much improved over the PVA but the end result wasn’t exactly what I would call lush and still showed a lot of gloss finish. Certainly didn’t evoke images of the fields of Normandy and by now I’m feeling a bit frustrated.

So I do a little internet searching to work out where I’m going wrong and I come across an observation about how you shouldn’t matte coat after placing static grass as it will stick to your minis in bad places. So I flip the concept and think to dab some Liquitex matte medium down and press my grass to it. Getting my matte finish and lush grass in one.

This actually worked quite well I think in part because I already a bit of grass on for the process to cling to.  Annoying though I did end up with a bit of grass in unwanted places and had to back track and carefully pick and pry. Some of this I just covered with bigger tufts later.

Once I was satisfied that I had enough grass down I dry brushed the balder areas with a little Zandari Dust to make it look a little dry then shaved a bottle caps worth of soft pastel. At first I mixed a little red and brown and dabbed it on in and around my dry areas then made a darker mix and dabbed it around randomly. Then I took a syringe of Isopropyl alcohol and drop by drop set the powder in place.

Lastly I threw down a scattering of grass tufts, used my airbrush to scour any lose grass off, and gave it a another coat of Matte for good measure.