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Hey, I've just finished basing my first brood of Nid's prior to priming and was wondering if anyone had tips on sealing the flock, before I probably lose half of it with the spray painting lol.

I'm using a mix of fine sand, vermiculite and limestone chips as a flock, it was adhered with PVA glue I'm just not sure it will hold on well enough. I've done a second, watered down layer of PVA to see if that will do the trick but want to be sure before I have to spend hours cleaning and re-flocking if I mess it all up.

Any help would be appreciated, cheers

I flock with sand all the time before I prime. The primer helps seal all the sand on the base. So when I paint it the sand doesn't soak up a lot of paint. I am sure your will be fine, but if you are that worried take a spare base and flock that and then prime it to see what happens.

 balsak_da_mighty wrote:
I flock with sand all the time before I prime. The primer helps seal all the sand on the base. So when I paint it the sand doesn't soak up a lot of paint. I am sure your will be fine, but if you are that worried take a spare base and flock that and then prime it to see what happens.

If all my bases didn't have models on them... Lol. I'll just try it with one model first and deal with it afterwards if it goes crazy. Thanks for the advice, hopefully the primer will help like you said.

The layer of watered down pva should hold the flock onto the base while priming, just make sure the pva is dry.

I did a test model and only a few tiny bits were loose so the watered down PVA definitely worked fine. Thanks again!

 BreakingMyself wrote:
...adhered with PVA glue...I've done a second, watered down layer of PVA...

This is my style. I use Woodland Scenics ballast or talus and attach it exactly as quoted above. I even do a 2nd watered down layer on grassy flock. What's more, I do this exact same thing when flocking tables. I've been using the same Eldar models since 2001 or so, and they're still holding firm. 4-5 times since then (we're talking 11 or so YEARS), a chunk will break off and I super glue it back on.

I can 100% verify that, in my experience, this is a tested and proven method that works.



Ghidorah

If you use a varnish of any type to finish of the model (matt, gloss, satin) this will help also.

Thanks. I might be matt varnishing when I'm finished, if the paint job is worthy of protecting that is lol.