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So I want to add clumps of snow to the bases of my Spyrer project.

I've bought some white flock from GW and on a test base put pva on it and dipped it in the white flock, problem is it looks a bit grey and a bit rubbish!

I've had a look online and found a technique where you mix equal pva, bicarb of soda, white flock plus had a little white paint, you then dab it on and sprinkle flock over the top.

Is that a good way? How do you do yours? Pics would help.

Thanks

I don't have any pics atm (need a new camera), but I have had much success using PVA glue, bicardb soda, and slapping it on the base. It can turn a bit yellow, so just add a bit of 'Ard Coat to it once it dries. Altertanively, I believe you could use the snow flock you already ordered, mix it in with the pva, and do the same thing. I haven't done this, but I have seen others do this to achieve a good effect.

So I had a crack using what I had to hand. Starting left to right:

1. PVA, snow flock and a dab of white paint, pre mixed and slapped on.
2. Pva put on the base then snow flock lightly sprinkled on the top.
3. Pva on the base then base put in the flock pot and well covered (this is how I normally flock)

The base colour isnt the final product, just 3 bases I had laying around from when I started my guard project.

Thoughts?

I have had success and it has been recommended to me that to get a good snow effect it to use wall filler paste. You can mould it into whatever style you want, and when it drys it is solid and has a nice pure white colour too it.

I tried that method and here was my results:

Baking soda and PVA glue.

from your 3 samples I think the left most and right most both look good.

I remember seeing in a tutorial that painting the area of the base you want to put snow on white and then doing your right most technique looked pretty good, maybe you should give that a try.

Part of the issue is that GW snow flock isn't granulated - it's white static grass. This gives it an odd texture and makes achieving coverage a bit tricky, which explains why the more thoroughly flocked base looks better than the sprinkled one (and the pre-mixed paste with additional paint looks best of all, at least IMO). Most tutorials assume you're using a granulated snow flock, like Woodland Scenics Soft Flake Snow, baking soda, etc. where sprinkling is a viable technique to add "fluffy snow" texture.

Even so, if you want anything more than a light dusting, I'd recommend using the sprinkled layer as texture only, relying on a thicker flock/glue/possibly paint mixture to build up your main coverage. Adjusting the ratio of glue to flock, choosing to sprinkle a final layer or not, and hitting the dried layer with gloss or matte varnish all tweak the result, letting you choose to have a wet or dry snow effect of various densities.

Thanks guys really helpful, might of been a mistake getting the GW stuff but that's what I've got now.

The pre mixed stuff looks ok on here but in reality it looks really bad.

With the GW stuff being the same as static grass, it could explain why treating it as normal flock is looking the better.

ids1984 wrote:
Thanks guys really helpful, might of been a mistake getting the GW stuff but that's what I've got now.

The pre mixed stuff looks ok on here but in reality it looks really bad.

With the GW stuff being the same as static grass, it could explain why treating it as normal flock is looking the better.

the mixed stuff looks really thick but bright. Try painting white underneath the normal flocking method, it will make it bright and look pretty realistic, snow wise.

Might try adding a little white to the pva then flock.

I been using the woodland scenics snow flock, which is about $12 USD and you get about a quart of the stuff which goes a LONG way.