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I am Starting a snow paint scheme for my eldar and really want to make a good looking snow base on my foot soldiers. if anyone has a good way to do so (pics would be nice to) i would love to hear your thoughts on this

Firstly, don't get the GW snow flock, stuff is crap and just white grass.

Try to get a powder based snow flock like GaleForce Nine's.

This thread has a decent tutorial if you scroll down to the Ogre Scraplauncher.

Basically this is what I got when I followed the tutorial.

With GW's flock.


With a powder based flock.



Important thing to remember is that the colour can show through the flock at times, so paint the area the snow is to go on either white or a blueish colour like space wolves grey. Also it should be left to last after you are done with all the painting, highlighting, washes and varnish if you're going to seal the model.

Take a look at my finished guardsmen squad in my gallery I really liked how the snow turned out, just ask if you want tips

Those look awesome! How did you do it

I have just started using The Army Painters snow flock, (http://www.maelstromgames.co.uk/index.php?act=pro&pre=tap_hob_bat_etl_103_000)it's really cheap and not hard to apply at all. All I did was to thin some PVA glue, paint it onto the base with an old brush, and dip it into the pot. Give it a moment, then take it out and tap off the excess. After this I found I needed to apply a second layer of glue and then to dip it again in order to get a more even application, but I was using the wrong type of PVA at the time


Hope that helps.

A suggestion, add white paint to your pva glue that you use to base with. That way the snow will be thicker.

Mixing a bit of PVA with baking soda gives you a somewhat sculptable paste that dries to look like watery, half-melted snow. Baking soda sprinkled on top of thinned PVA gives a more powdery look. A combination of these two can make surprisingly convincing patches, if you want the underlying ground to poke through (which I think looks significantly better than covering the whole base in snow).

This is a pic of the dried stuff:

A. Giraldez wrote:

It's just so SLUSHY!!

here is a link to the guide (stupid easy) not sure why he takes pics of it while it is still wet, it makes it look blue...

It's really easy, I used this stuff

http://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/show/Item/SN140/page/1

Idk where, but I got it somewhere for 8 bucks...it is enough to base numerous armies, and then some.

I painted the base white, and spread PVA glue all over the base. Try to be messy with it- get it up against the base of the model's feet, put specks of glue up the models feets maybe up to their knee or so. I did this so that the snow went up the models feet, to create the impression they had been trudging through deep snow. Then I dip the model in the snow, shake the excess off. Once it is dried, you can apply more PVA glue to the base and/or legs and dip it again to make the snow appear thicker.

oadie wrote:Mixing a bit of PVA with baking soda gives you a somewhat sculptable paste that dries to look like watery, half-melted snow. Baking soda sprinkled on top of thinned PVA gives a more powdery look. A combination of these two can make surprisingly convincing patches, if you want the underlying ground to poke through (which I think looks significantly better than covering the whole base in snow).

Baking Soda will yellow over time FYI. Archival clear coats might mitigate that but I couldn't say from experience.