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I was trying to see if anybody had any tips for painting up snow covered models. I was thinking about painting up some dwarfs and had a mountain theme in mind for them. I have done some bases in the past with some snow on them, but I was thinking about having the snow on the models as well. Kind of a "standing steadfast in a snow storm" kind of thing.

I have the GW snow-flock stuff, and for the bases I just added some drops of PVA and then I let the snow fall on top of that. The same way I would flock small patches of grass actually.

Any suggestions on how to make it look good with a whole model? I was thinking about maybe spraying with dullcoate from the top and then "raining" snow on top of that. I guess I could try a test model, but I don't know how that would work out.

I think the problem is that without modelling the actual snowstorm going on it's going to look like they've been standing stock still in a field for the duration of a snowstorm and now that it has cleared they still aren't moving.

Motion and body heat go a long way towards clearing snow off someone, so it only really sticks when it's actually snowing or if they're standing perfectly still. Or at least that's my experience. Without being able to model the still airborne snow, modelling the gathered snow on the figure is going to look a little weird.

http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/tutorial-masterclass-snow-effects.html

Agreed. Could look great on a sniper/infiltrator model who has good reason to let snow pile on him as camouflage, but otherwise will probably look a bit odd, perhaps even as if the model has frozen to death

And unless they've changed it I'd steer clear of the GW snow flock as well. Just expensive white grass...

I usually don't buy GW brand anything, but I think I picked it up somewhere that had it on sale for a buck or something like that.