Not much progress on this lot, as I got distracted by painting some scenery http://kiwidave.pbworks.com/w/page/7780162/Scenery%20-%2010mm (the ones that the bottom of the page)

Those are very nice mate 

Cheers Nik! They came out better than I expected

Like the canal. Just the right feature to grace(?) a WW2 landscape. 

THOSE ARE REALLY COOL!

More distractions :



Pendraken PS41


Pendraken PS40


Not entirely convinced by the snow, but it does the job

(And I had man-flu last week, so these were easier to do and didn't require vast amount of focus/concentration)

Up close the snow looks a bit grainy - but fine from a distance I would guess. 

Yeah - I was hoping it was going to come out flatter, but as the GF9 snow is quite grainy, I'll have to live with it. Or maybe come up with a better way - make a paste perhaps?

I did hear of people using flour for snow. You'd have to seal it, I think. 

Quote from: Kiwidave on 24 May 2012, 08:04:10 AM
Or maybe come up with a better way - make a paste perhaps?

That's what I do mate - mix up PVA, water, white paint & your snow...looks like this:

I'll have to try that approach Nik

After a bit of a hiatus due to watching football, other distractions and a bad bout of can't-be-arsed, here is some progress:






Do to: paint the webbing, packs, water bottles etc (and maybe boots); paint radios, flame throwers and mine detectors; paint the CO's table and other bric-a-brac; 'whitewash' the artillery;  ink the whole lot and base them.

Distractions were these:

They need the bases doing (either just heavy white dry-brush, or Nik's paste method)

I might have been better off just buying trees that were already flocked, as this lot took ages and two coats of flock and two coats of spray matt varnish. I'm not entirely happy with them as there are as white as I'd hoped - the Gale Force 9 snow gets translucent when sprayed with varnish, which makes the underlying colour show though a bit - so I might dry-brush with  some household white satin.

Wrong time of year (another week or so needed  ) but you could try Chistmas Deorations Spray Snow. may need a cople of coats, but it won't come off........

IanS

Not a bad idea Ian. I'll have a look in the local Pound Shop