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I did as quick search in this forum and didn't find the answer to the age old question....

what is the best snow flock?

Flour?  Sugar? Salt? A mixture?  Something you buy?

It seems as if a lot of perople posting here paint snow effects on their bases.   I thought that the local hobby store, which carries tons of flocks for HO-train-guys might have something, but no luck.

Someone may correct me if I'm wrong, but white glue/hot glue, put onto the base and allowed to dry, then painted white, will look like a snow drift. A friend of mine did this for his Kroot and it looked great. I'll bet I can get a picture or two if needed.

the best one is just too spend the 8 dollars for the light snow not the heavy snow from woodland scenic and apply about three too four layers of snow ( let a layer dry then add a another one it makes it look like it fresh powder and give you deepth in te snow) will post a few pic when i have the army finish. Im using snow and rocks with some winter havest gold feild grass on my models. I tried the flour and it turns too paste or loks alot like ice which is a no go...

I've heard that a dusting of baking powered over a tacky glue surface gives a nice result, although I've never tried it myself.

Can anybody confirm/deny?

I've heard the same thing Trigger and (IIRC) when I've seen it done, it looks quite good and to proper scale as it's the right consistency without being too fine (like talc) or too grainy (like salt or sugar). If you have a local well stocked hobby model shop that hosts serious modelers, you might want to ask staff there or check out some serious armor modeling sites, like Missing Linx, Track Link, or Armorama.

Thanks guys.

Great stuff.  I appreciate the help.

 

I use the woodland senics too, I do about even parts white glue and water with a drop or 2 of white paint as a base then add an equal part snow flock, when it dries it will not come off your base very easy at all. when I did this with out the paint it looked alot more like slush and no so much like snow. You can always add a bit of flock over the top and seal it in with your clear coat when your done. here is a pic of how mine turned out

I based all my Valhallans using plain 'ole sand, painting it Space Wolves Grey and then dry brushing it white.

IMHO it looks better (although less "realistic) than any of the actual snow materials out there.

www.drunkdwarves.com  has a great tutorial on snow bases:

http://www.drunkdwarves.com/pages/artttgttcn9snow.html

Enjoy!

JM

Baking soda & white glue, with maybe just a tiny drop of water. If you want it to look really, really cold, add the barest hint of light blue paint, a little goes a loooong way.

Spoon it onto the base and let it dry. If you added blue, once it is dry you should paint over the top with white, leaving the blue showing in crevices or undercuts.

Once it is dry, brush thin white glue over it, and sprinkle with Woodland Scenics snow.

Check out the Brushthralls:
http://www.brushthralls.com/Mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&Itemid=9&limit=1&limitstart=1

 

 

Posted By Captain Vyper on 06/06/2007 7:59 PM
I use the woodland senics too, I do about even parts white glue and water with a drop or 2 of white paint as a base then add an equal part snow flock, when it dries it will not come off your base very easy at all. when I did this with out the paint it looked alot more like slush and no so much like snow. You can always add a bit of flock over the top and seal it in with your clear coat when your done. here is a pic of how mine turned out

Oh! Very nice!

One challenge of snow is that snow has depth and to see feet you can onle have a few cm of snow on the ground.  I like how you depicted the shallowness of the snow with bush and rock. 

Some of the other techniques mentioned in this thread allow you to build up a layer, or depth, of snow.  The baking-soda and glue technique is very creative and one that never occured to me before.  Great stuff.  I also found some of the HO-train flock on the internet and ordered up a container.  That may be good for a top layer. 

I'm excited to try different things to see what looks good.