06-23-2015, 11:05 AM
Kind words from all of you. I'm honored.
Snow: It was a big of a process. If you look at my photo album you may have picked up I used green florist foam (the dense stuff) and just used my bare fingers to rub away and craft the snow drifts. I then painted with a thin slurry of plaster water. Which was a bad move because it grabbed the foam and pulled it away from the supporting MDF board (which I had to fix later). I had intended on using microballoons (nothing compares) but knew they were quite tempormental. Trick: make a slurry of future floor wax and microballons, make thin pancakes, then let it dry. Break those pancakes up and you have jagged snowballs, round them with your bare fingers if you want a smoother look (hence a lot of the plowed snow). A month before I was going to apply the snow, I saw a FB post on a product called Precision Snow & Ice. They have some really nice products and I highly recommend their starter kit (sieve, wash, and 2 types of snow). I also got a couple sheets of their ice. I ended up using a 50:50 mix of the Precision product and microballoons. The white on the chicken feet is their wash product with some loose powder thrown on while wet.
As for the painting - thanks, but I feel you exagerate. Its really not much similar to the actual model. Those guys had their own random style. I'm a little to focused on doing that way. I tried to be ITSO (in the spirit of) the weathering they used but also mix a bit real world weathering (as practiced by the armor guys). I hadn't painted in probably 8 years - so considering, I suppose I'm kinda happy with it.
As for the base, I usually have to explain it for the lay people. I really needed something heavy to balance the top heavy model. I know I wanted snow. But didn't know how to terminate it towards the table. The base is supposed to remind you of the Hoth rebel turrets in shape and color. In that you have some symbology: the bad guys beating/over the good guys. Cheesy, but works in my mind.
thanks again for the words.
Snow: It was a big of a process. If you look at my photo album you may have picked up I used green florist foam (the dense stuff) and just used my bare fingers to rub away and craft the snow drifts. I then painted with a thin slurry of plaster water. Which was a bad move because it grabbed the foam and pulled it away from the supporting MDF board (which I had to fix later). I had intended on using microballoons (nothing compares) but knew they were quite tempormental. Trick: make a slurry of future floor wax and microballons, make thin pancakes, then let it dry. Break those pancakes up and you have jagged snowballs, round them with your bare fingers if you want a smoother look (hence a lot of the plowed snow). A month before I was going to apply the snow, I saw a FB post on a product called Precision Snow & Ice. They have some really nice products and I highly recommend their starter kit (sieve, wash, and 2 types of snow). I also got a couple sheets of their ice. I ended up using a 50:50 mix of the Precision product and microballoons. The white on the chicken feet is their wash product with some loose powder thrown on while wet.
As for the painting - thanks, but I feel you exagerate. Its really not much similar to the actual model. Those guys had their own random style. I'm a little to focused on doing that way. I tried to be ITSO (in the spirit of) the weathering they used but also mix a bit real world weathering (as practiced by the armor guys). I hadn't painted in probably 8 years - so considering, I suppose I'm kinda happy with it.
As for the base, I usually have to explain it for the lay people. I really needed something heavy to balance the top heavy model. I know I wanted snow. But didn't know how to terminate it towards the table. The base is supposed to remind you of the Hoth rebel turrets in shape and color. In that you have some symbology: the bad guys beating/over the good guys. Cheesy, but works in my mind.
thanks again for the words.