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I need textured paint for terrain but I dont know where to get some, Google isn't real clear, so if someone could help... Thanks, CS

There is a product that you can get at The Home Depot called "No-Skid"...at least I think that is what it is called, but basically it is the fine grain sand that is mixed into paint that you apply to wheel chair ramps and steps to prevent slipping.

You could also use a little glaze medium to thin up the paint, and then add in regular sand and then you will have a little more of a random looking texture.

Ashton

I will look into that, thanks!

For terrain, everything I have seen is simply normal paint with sand mixed in.

There are also various spray paints that are textured....

Army painter does one.

Ok, I found orange peel textured spray from homax, It seems good.

Orange peel texture is a pretty rough product. If you just want some basic texture what you want is the premixed sand texture paint, or this product.

http://www.menards.com/main/paint/paint/paint-additives/powdered/sheetrock-reg-brand-sand-finish-paint-additive/p-1478116.htm

It's basically ground pummice, it's really cheap and can be mixed into any color of paint. It can also be glued to a model's base and painted. I use it all the time.

While you're at the hardware store bring a swatch of the color of paint you want for your ground cover and have them mix up a gallon of that in whatever brand of "Flat" paint they have on sale. I recently got a gallon of my brown ground color for 9 bucks!

Then you can pour a cup or two into a separate container and mix some of the additive in to make textured paint.

This would be more of a sand texture right?
What do you think that the type of paint they used here was?
http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/6397-how-to-make-modular-terrain

If I were a guessing man, I'd say latex paint mixed with sand. Or, you could ask the author.

Cheap household emulsion with sand mixed in will do well for covering terrain base boards and large flat areas of buildings, etc. If you're worried about durability, go over the textured layer with thinned PVA glue once it's dry. (Bear in mind this darkens the colours a bit.)

If you want something finer for spraying smaller buildings, complicated structures and the like, there are textured spray paints available in several colours. They can also be painted over and weathered.

The Tau building shown here was sprayed with textured paint, then had the detail parts added, then oversprayed with a Bleached Bone colour and weathered.



Rust-oleum and Plastikote are the UK brand names for the sprays. There are also own brand versions at major DIY hardware chains.

You should easily find the above materials on-line at whatever are the US equivalents of Homebase and B&Q.

Ok, good to know thanks!

Capitansolstice wrote:This would be more of a sand texture right?
What do you think that the type of paint they used here was?
http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/6397-how-to-make-modular-terrain

Yes and no.
It all depends on how much you mix in, the type of paint is not that relavent. House paint is not that dissimilar from model paint except that it tends to be a bit thicker. It's still acrylic latex paint. The pumice operates roughly the same way as sand and is about the same consistency except that being pourous (it's pummice after all) it's going to stick a bit better and absorb the paint. It's so cheap and lasts so long that I use it instead of sand.

Killcrazy gives an excellent option if you're looking for a different kind of texture. I recommend sand or pummice for ground and basing, not so much for building texture or rock texture. It's all about using the right tool/product for the rightuses. For rock and some buildings, a heavily brushed on mix of watered down wood filler will also get you a nice. rock or concrete look.

We still don't know what kind of terrain project you need texture for.

Here's two examples of pummice used as texture in basing.

The first is it premixed at a very high concentration with brown house paint into a paste that I call "magic mud". This is something that you can't do well with sand because it's the pourousness that allows it to be cohere as a paste


As I mentioned before, you can also glue it to the base and it will absorb slightly watered down paint so well that you never even have to get the brush up next to the miniature. These (please excuse the unfinished state) shows it glued down and painted as grass.

Oh, sorry I'm actually following that tutorial on CMON and making a modular board!

In that case I'd definitley recommend sand textured paint, either premixed, sand mixed with paint, or Sheetrock paint additive mixed into paint.

The benefit of this is going to be to provide some fine texture that will really stand out after drybrushing. Are you going to use filler the way they recommend also, or are you just going to put texture paint over foam?

Yes, I will be using the filler to add texture

Cool.
I see that you are from Illinois also. Other stores probably have it also, but I do know that Menards carrries both the premixed sand-textured latex paint (probably exactly the same as the white stuff they are using in the tutorial) and the Sheetrock Paint additive.

If you want to combine the texture and base coat into one step, you should know that they will not add color to pre-mixed texture paint (not sure why, but they refused), but they'll sell you cheap housepaint in any color that you can add texture to yourself.

I went to lowes today, and they let me try the homax stuff, It has a variable texture nozzle and it looks really nice. I have decided to use this, and then get colored- normal latex paints