Gerry Can Show You How To Make Snow Bases
March 4, 2020 by dignity
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Superglue and soda makes a great “frozen ice-snow” effect. Useful for ice and snow around rivers, lakes or puddles in roads…
True. But the yellowing is annoying
But is it that bad? I think I will make a test piece and hang a UV light over it for a day… and then we will see how bad it is. I’ve heard it many times but never seen it.
I’ve read about model railways layouts turning yellow but we are talking years after the soda was used.
I think after “years” my main problem would be the collected dust and dead insects… 😉
Yeah it’s not over night but Lloyd had issues months after doing his.
Hairspray is great, but remember it can be reactivated with water and water based products like varnish.
Very good and detailed tutorial.
Do you ever use the ground glass mixed with clear resin?
I have seen people do it and it looks very realistic. It gives more of a melting snow effect.
I have the feeling that the expensive version I have may be something like that. I’m very lazy and don’t wear a mask.for the ground glass you really need to. Secret weapon used to make a snow flock out of it. Don’t know if they still do, but it looked great
Sorry, but a quick glimpse of the thumbnail appears as if Gerry was making frosted doughnuts. Ahhhhh, doughnuts.
Drools
the final results are very impressive looking Gerry.
Whenever I use a fine powder snow and hairspray I know it will come off later so I seal it in with a few coats of gently sprayed on varnish. It holds on a lot better after, although expect some snow to dissolve in the process. Also, dust mask! DUST MASK! Any time a fine powder is involved use a dust mask, even if just to stop you blowing it away. I’ve been known to make a snow paste before for building up volume out of some AP Battlefields Snow and PVA (and perhaps a drop of water?). If I… Read more »
Yeah a dust mask isn’t going to happen unless you fancy subtitling it all
Fair enough for the videos. Although having someone do a bad Bane impersonation for a voice over might be funny for a few minutes
No one cared who I was until I put on the PPE
While it was your least favourite, that flock looks like it would still be good for doing frost; would be interesting to see you apply it to various urban bases to see if it would look like early morning frost/icy patches on them. 😉
That is a fantastic vid @avernos and very useful. I was wondering if instead of PVAing the base that mixing the Bicarb or Baking Power in a container and making a paste and them spooning it one would work? That way you could add paint to it to colour it.
Oh I am thinking. The Bicarb would be great for sand as way I bet too.
Future ideas, basing for mud, sand and jungle and how to varnish you figures correctly.
You could mix them, but they will discolour, how much and how quickly is another matter but it will happen.
Ahh there’s no basing like snow basing there’s no basing i know….Gerry’s basing is so apeeling, sorry could not resist it..