Basing miniatures

[FierceKitty]

I use scatter but I am not sure about this flock.  Are they strips you glue down or what?

Coloured grains of powder, simulating grass, earth, shingles, or what would you.

[mmcv]

I use scatter but I am not sure about this flock.  Are they strips you glue down or what?

Coloured grains of powder, simulating grass, earth, shingles, or what would you.

As FK said. It's often just coloured sawdust. Suspect it's the same thing you mean by scatter. Then foliage power and clumps are the coloured sponge and I tend to call general other bits "scatter" - coloured plastic strands, grit, leaves, etc.

[hammurabi70]

Coloured grains of powder, simulating grass, earth, shingles, or what would you.

I use scatter but have never tried flock; this suggests flock as finer grains than scatter.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I use scatter but have never tried flock; this suggests flock as finer grains than scatter.

Thats right, I mix 2-3 different greens to get a decent colour, some are far to bright.

[mmcv]

I use scatter but have never tried flock; this suggests flock as finer grains than scatter.

This is the sort of thing, https://www.serious-play.co.uk/collections/modelling-flock

As Ian said, often you can mix them to pleasing effects. My ECW mix for instance is mostly moss green and brown with a smaller proportion of dark brown, dark green and light green. Then some grass and scatter over the top.

E.g.



Or for some recent bases I've been just adding to the base in patches for textual and visual difference:



Crusader basing uses a mix of browns and yellows with a very small proportion of green:




Looks a bit odd close up like that but at a distance has a pleasing effect.

[fsn]

I use 2mm Javis static grass (available from your friendly neighbourhood Pendraken). 2 parts Summer, 2 parts spring, 1 part autumn.

[Adamwest]

Plenty of food for thought, mmcv i like your crusader bases very autumny!

[DHautpol]

I find that PVA works just fine on the thin plywood bases I use.  Once the glue has set I texture the bases using BASETEX (Colour Party Paints) and dry-brush.  On the few occasions I've had to re-base (usually because I've made a mistake), I've generally found the figures to be infuriatingly well attached.

I wouldn't generally use Superglue, but I make one exception.  I also collect ADLER 6mm and the figures are quite widely spaced on their strips.  This means they have to be snipped into individual figures and then based.  In this situation, Gel Superglue is the "Holy Grail" of adhesives as it is viscous (I think that's the right word) enough to support the weight of the figure being glued - place your blobs of Superglue on the base, position a figure, count to ten and move on to the next figure.  Occasionally a figure or two may start to lean but these can easily be straightened, count to ten again and then let go.