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You may have already seen my pumice review. I was browsing my local hobby shop the other day and noticed in the corner of a shelf some pots of Tamiya diorama paints. What caught my interest is that these are ready-to-go paints mixed with textures. I picked up the soil effect one to give it a go:

The bottle looks like this:


And the results are impressive:


I have done nothing to that bare, plastic base beyond slapping some of the soil effects on it and letting it dry. Very nice effect, seems rock solid and will be my basing method for the future I think as there is no hassle with painting and sealing sand, you can just slap it on and drybrush it (the above has had no paint whatsoever on it yet though). This will also be very useful when mixing dirt and rocks on a single base I think as well.

There is quite a large range of colours and textures available, including: Brown (soil effect), Dark Earth (soil effect), Green (grass effect), Khaki (grass effect), Dark Grey (pavement effect), Light Grey (pavement effect). I'm not sure what the grass effect would look like, it apparently has 5mm fibers in it so would look a bit like astroturf and would be slightly inferior to properly applied static grass I presume.

Apparently these just came out this month. Good work Tamiya!

I used some of this for rose gardens on a display based Malifaux crew.

$21 per pot they can keep it on the shelf.

Cheers Lego - how much do you get in a pot though, and how much is it?

Is it worth it when sand is free and PVA is £1 a bottle? These are my main considerations

Looks pretty cool.

Tek wrote:Cheers Lego - how much do you get in a pot though, and how much is it?

Is it worth it when sand is free and PVA is £1 a bottle? These are my main considerations

Modelzone sell it for £10.25 for 250ml. The bottle claims it can cover a 250x350mm area easily. Not as cheap as PVA+sand+paint, but significantly less time for batch work.