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Has anyone used these before and are they any good?
They are basically hairy stickers you put on the base right?
I saw them on the GW website today an am intrigued.

I have a pack of the Army Builder tufts that have been around for a while:
http://usshop.thearmypainter.com/products.php?ProductGroupId=3

To be honest, I have the Winter Tufts that I thought I'd be using, but haven't gotten a chance to even try it out yet. It seems useful, so I dropped $6 on it and haven't touched it since.

Absolutionis wrote:I have a pack of the Army Builder tufts that have been around for a while:
http://usshop.thearmypainter.com/products.php?ProductGroupId=3

To be honest, I have the Winter Tufts that I thought I'd be using, but haven't gotten a chance to even try it out yet. It seems useful, so I dropped $6 on it and haven't touched it since.

thier site is down atm. And I was wanting to see what they look like. I need something for my Dark Elves as a winter theme.

The Army Painter site works for me. Odd.
Try their main site:
http://www.thearmypainter.com/

There are other companies that do this too:
http://www.sceneryexpress.com/products.asp?dept=1056

EDIT: To be honest, I believe Silfor did it first by catering to scenery modelers; then Army Painter took the idea to cater to the wargaming hobby. Games Workshop no doubt took this idea to cater for their "Games Workshop Hobby". It all seems to be pretty much the same product.

Yeah it's working now >.>

GW's is more than double the price and they don't have winter out so yeah.

For price comparison, how many tufts come in the Army Painter and Silfor packages?

So are they basically stickers then? or do you glue clumps together?

Not sure if GW's new offerings have any tack to them, but some do - those are, in a way, like stickers. Each "clump," as you put it, is a cohesive unit - pluck the whole tuft off the plastic backing sheet, then glue (if it isn't self-adhesive or, at least, sufficiently so) it to your otherwise finished base. It's as easy as that. Great for adding sparse patches of dead weeds to desolate landscapes or adding a bit of visual variety to otherwise plain grass bases.