I really appreciate how you market your own brand. "I like mine, but here's how you can do it cheaper if you like." You don't find that mindset very often. Keep up the great work, Luke.
When someone who sells these products gives you directions bro make your own.... makes me want to buy more of your stuff due to the honesty this shows. Cheers
I really like the final look of that moss paint and I had no idea the effect could be created so easily. I have some of your green foam scatter already so I'll definitely be trying it out at some point
Love the snow! Some of us do not do gaming models or terrain, but rather Christmas villages. The snow was exactly what I was looking for. Your subs are more than gamers. Thanks so much!
For rust effects on a board you could probably get thin iron sheet which is dirt cheap and coat it in vinegar and salt mixture. It’s lightweight and you get a real rust effect.
I've been using poundshop brown acrylic frame sealant mixed with sand and a little water as a basing texture for a few years now. For stony ground I add some bird grit into the mix; for swamp terrain bases I added some black paint to darken it and some dried herbs to give the impression of rotting vegetation.
My favorite is the moss, I need to do a project where I can use this one. I love making my own products at home, I actually watched your how to make sculptamold the other week and am making a huge batch for a fraction of the cost compared to store bought. Thanks for that!
I recenently made about 50 bucks worth of green Stirland Mud from sand, cheap craft paint, and ready made drywall compound for like... a bucks worth of material. All thanks to an old video you made Luke. Thank you for saving me $$$
Cheers Luke, I caught the "Wargaming bug" in 1972 and there was no shop bought products then so we had to do what you do , Your GG products are a boon to peeps like me , (Ta muchly for that .) There is one more thing i use , Cigarette ash , mixed with pva gives a good Concrete/Stone finish , but keep that one under ya hat 😉.. Any-hoo ~gud upload and cheers. Luv~Luv~Luv . 🐺
Basically whatever you do just don't buy citadel and it's fine. Agrellan earth is 7.80€ for 24 ML pot and GSW Mojave Mudcrack is about 5.50€ for 60 ML bottle. There's very little difference in performance but GSW doesn't chip off as easily so it's little bit better. Vallejo texture paints are far more durable than citadel ones and come in 200ml tubs which cost about 9.50€. 24ml bottle of Astrogranite is 7.80€ so you get about 8 times more texture paint for same amount of money when buying Vallejo.
This is the answer. Been using the same pot of Vallejo texture paste for like 4 years going now and it cost me 12 bucks. Mixing my own would take way more time and be way less consistent. @@slimjim7411
I've found that egg shells can make for really cool bases as well. I take the egg shells, put them in a jar with a lid (usually it's a Homepride Pasta bake jar 😂) and shake until I get the size I want. Then I mix the egg shell with P.V.A. glue and slap it on the base. Prime, paint. Done. If I'm after a pointy ground effect I wait for the glue to dry a bit then place some larger bits of egg shell where I want them. It's an interesting look.
i appreciate your video but also you can make the rust effect with just paints and dry brushing only also for the textures you can just use any sands/paper towel, etc.
A while back, my local Michaels had some "non-slip grit additive" in a jar, for a big discount. I experimented with it in texture paint. It worked pretty well, mixed with PVA and paint. I also added some fairly large grit sand, for added texture. I've mostly done it as texture prior to priming models, but it worked decently well on its own from my experiments. I've also acquired a kind of snow effect paste ("Snow-Tex" from DecoArt), but I haven't yet tried it out.
This feels like a video from the attic but with better production - the only thing missing was something from poundland🤣. Really like all of these, but the moss paint wins for me👍
Really appreciate your effort and honesty in this video. You didn't hesitate to say "well this is good for terrain, but I'd still use THIS for a model". Helps clear up the value in both products. I really needed this as I'm about to do a display board for Legion and need a mud texture. This'll save me a ton of cash, thanks Luke!
thanks for essentially reuploading the higher production quality of the mud video. i went looking for it about a year ago and couldnt find it and have been guessing on how it was done ever since. cheers!
While I'm lazy and usually end up buying these kind of products from AK or Mig, I do love these "how to's". I just have to remember to use it next time I need texture paint. (-:
For big rust areas I use a rust colour first, then hairspray for wet chipping, top colour on, wet stiff brush to wear down to the rust, Matt varnish then a bit of silver drybrushing and oily brown washes to finish :). Great for vehicles and big areas.
For rust I use alcohol ink. Start with yellow then add orange, then a red brown, and finally a very dark brown. Just layer then and do it while they are still tacky so they mix a bit.
I'll keep the mud texture in mind when I run out of the store bought stuff. My dioramas are fairly small so that stuff should last for at least 12-15 of them. A lot of my dioramas show a lot of raw sand or earth. The moss? Love it. I might give the rust a try, but it'd have to be super fine powder mixed in. I go out in the world and collect coffee cans full of dirt from construction sites, and after sieving them, I get a very fine powder. I'll give it a whirl.
Honestly I've never used any factory made texture paints or coverings. I've always just mixed stuff up. But I've used sand, kitty litter, corn meal, crushed stone, aquarium gravel, rocks and dirt from outside, baking soda, coffee grounds, and anything else that I have ever thought of. And basically mixed it into glue or paint, or both. I've also just put glue on a base and shook stuff on. I've always felt the pre-made texture paints were too expensive for the amount you got. And I'm glad you shared these recipes with us. I'd rather just make my own. Especially since it would be about an hour ordeal to drive my closest shop that carries pre-made texture paints, buy it, and drive back. Most of the stuff I use can be purchased at a closer shop in 10 minutes if I don't screw around looking at other stuff in the shop. And can be bought cheaper and in bigger abundance.
I use a dollar store sieve and tea strainer to sift regular sand. The sieve pulls out the small rocks, the tea strainer lets through the very fine sand leaving you with regular sand. Three grades of basing material from one bag.
Normally for snow I use baking soda plus PVA glue and water if necessary, egg shells for cracked terrains, there's also coffee powder (used) and PVA plus sand and acrylic colours for terrain
For rust effect I have found that a layer of a dark red brown dry pigment with a lighter orange dry pigments gives great results. And it's wicked cheap if you buy some artist pastel chalk sticks. Like $25 for every color you could ever need and the sandpaper to process it down to a powder.
i liked all of them. Giving people a choise to use what suits them the best. my first atempt on snow (25 years ago ) was plaster an drybrushing it with a white paint as it hardens to much "off-white". Great Job and as allways an entertaining Video.
Love the moss effect best. The rust looks very effective (though people tend to overdo the orange). I'll probably give the wall filler ground paste a go, I assume you can mix up a whole container with acrylic paint and sand and keep the lid on to keep it from setting, as long as you don't add the PVA?
You can even add the PVA. As long as the lid is on tight, should last for ages. I have some texture paint I made 18+ months ago stored in a clip top yoghurt pot and it’s still fine.
Made a pot up using the wall filler (in the container it came in as was half empty), probably 3 years ago using filler, paint, sand, grit and PVA, and its still fine. It will probably outlast me at this point
"Texture" and "Dry" are a complete waste of money. Mainly because they DRY up... If only I had used them up by then. An empty pot is usually an indicator of a good paint. Quite annoying when products are made and sold not to last... I have coffee beans that have been fresh longer. The GW pots are not tight enough by far.
You could always swap bottles. I put all of my "normal" citadel paints into empty MiG dropper bottles. I've just started experimenting with the terrain stuff, but you could use things like small mustard jars or similar to keep them from drying out.
Good video always appreciate money saving tips ( i use ash to bulk out filler/grout & stale cinnamon or real rust for rust & cat litter for stone or smashed up for dust & cheap trade pva sealer seems to sub for mod podge & cheapest pale emulsion coloured with craft paint or ink saves some money too ) cheers
I would use all the homemade versions, simply because they are cheaper and can be easily customised to suit my project. Love to see you doing more home made alternatives, it's what got me watching you years ago.
I’ve learnt more from your channel and am just getting in to 1/35 scale model but the tips are absolutely amazing that’s why I was keep popping back to watch your videos and I subscribed
Another great video. Kudos Luke. I love how you KNOW what these products are really made of and how they work so you can replicate them. Not too common I think, so well done to you!
I haven't done a lot of terrain stuff but wall grout works wonders for building up texture, really easy to work with. That moss idea sounds brilliant, I'll have to give that a go.
Loved all the suggestions and will try them out. I did think your homemade mud could be just a wee tad darker as compared to the shop bought product. Great cost saving suggestions!
I use spackle mixed with sand, craft paint, and pva for most of my bases. But I alter amounts of the different things to make it have a different effect. For instance adding lots of water will give more crackle effect.
I’ve been making snow like this for a while. Works great. I use a ton of it because, for some reason I always gravitate towards frosty games and factions (Frostgrave and AoS Beastclaw Raiders). Not sure why I never considered moss paint before. But I’m probably going to go mix some up right now lol
Good stuff as always, Interesting video. My challenge to you is to make a home made texture paste that cracks like some o the GW ones (martian iron earth etc). I've had limited success with Calcium Bentonite.
Try coffee grounds, pva, a bit of water, and maybe some craft paint if you want to try and color it a bit. If you play with the mix the material separates as it dries and cracks. Sort of gives a cracked lava field look.
Very helpful. I can safely say I'll be using all of these over the course of my hobby life. But more importantly and most currently I'll be using the snow one as I plan on making a small board for Star Wars Legion to represent Hoth, the ice world.
Try getting some iron powder, graphite, and water in a cup. Let it sit for a couple of days. Add some pva glue, filler compound, and spread that on. You can add some tan paint and white ink. You will be surprised at the results.
These look great! Definitely like the look of the moss. The only paint I use is Games Workshop Texture paint Agrellan Earth. I wonder if there is an alternative to that? It dries and creates cracks like a desert planet.
For dirt I've taken to using coconut coir. You can hit it with a gloss varnish and some washes if you want it muddy. (Thank you Squidmar for the idea) I've recently been experimenting with tea leaves for scatter flock as well. Green tea (from tea bags, so ground up) seems to be solid for half mulched leaves.
Prices are in $AUD buut: 100ml filler = $10 PVA Glue = $5 ($8 for your brand) GGS Tropical Beach = $12 Paint = $1 Total = $28 for 100g. For the same price I can get two 200ml of Vallejo's texture paint.
Cool vid. Must say I’m definitely a fan of the Golden products you showed inside the Skillshare section. Their texture mediums are truly amazing. However, one thing which always amazes me is how just the slush from my washed paint brushes, either with a little gesso or matte medium also gives the most amazing effects. With water added suddenly you have amazing pin washes for scraps. And so indeed we can go and on and on. Definitely will try the eggshells I saw mentioned further up in the comments. So, yes, got some favorites, but simple screwing around and experimenting is indeed the utmost favorite of ‘m all. Thanks 🙏 for sharing.
Can you store this homemade texture paints once you make them? Can they hold or will they dry up too fast? I know they are quite easy to make, but i usually do single bases, small pieces of scenery or small dioramas, so mixing them up every single time is a hustle. Being able to store it and use it like a store bought product would make all the difference in the world.
Cool, all effects look super nice. Have you ever considered putting those types of products in sealed ziplock bags? The ones where you cut the top off but it can be closed after that.
My rust is similar except I just use brown paint first and then I make the texture paint with the orange. It's funny because the result is almost the same, just more flaky rust.
While it may not be a comparison, the moss is exactly what I need for putting together the models from Dominion. They are already in a swamp and that is gonna add a nice pop of color near water or ruins!
Great approach, very true, thanks very much for posting this! Combining different materials and approaches depending on cost, volume and desired effect is very wise and can be much more cost-efficient in the long run. I would add another factor: location. Currently I live in a place practically in the middle of a desert, so I have millions (...maybe billions?) of tons of all the types of sand I could wish practically in my backyard. So I would never buy "packaged" sand, it makes no sense (though I still have to bake the sand to fully sterilize/disinfect it and finding small, uniformelly-sized rocks or coarse sand is still difficult...). But I have almost no trees, tree bark, nor twigs etc. And no nearby home depot to buy cheap every day stuff to replace some branded products. So it makes sense to buy the latter through online shopping from Europe or the US. But when I was living in Europe, in a totally different physical (and urban) environment, the situation was exactly the opposite. One more thing is, I find the experimenting with household, cheap materials, to achieve various painting and weathering results and environmental effects, very thrilling, part of the joy of modelling & painting, so there's another advantage over the ready-made products! Creating "natural" rust using iron trimmings or even better, kitchen wire mesh, and vinegar and baking soda etc is one example, but there are so many others. Now we need some advice on how to replace branded "moss" with some household or back yard material. Real moss? (duh)... Tee leaves (sterilised)? Sponge trimmings? Maybe... 😅
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2:20 Mud
4:30 Snow
6:20 Moss
7:40 Rust
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I love the mud,snow and moss paint and i will be making the moss for my Dracula kit...... thanks a lot for the info......
I really appreciate how you market your own brand. "I like mine, but here's how you can do it cheaper if you like." You don't find that mindset very often. Keep up the great work, Luke.
Honestly, it makes me much more likely to buy GGS knowing that I'm being treated like a hobbyist first and a customer second.
Yeh, u preaching the truth there brotha...
From the DIY wash videos to this you always knock it out of the park. Thanks for the awsome hobby content.
Thanks luke ill be trying all of these ideas in the near future. Really helpful.
When someone who sells these products gives you directions bro make your own.... makes me want to buy more of your stuff due to the honesty this shows. Cheers
Yeah really, but I guess he knows there are still people out there who can't afford or just like to DIY all the things.
I really like the final look of that moss paint and I had no idea the effect could be created so easily. I have some of your green foam scatter already so I'll definitely be trying it out at some point
Love the snow! Some of us do not do gaming models or terrain, but rather Christmas villages. The snow was exactly what I was looking for. Your subs are more than gamers. Thanks so much!
I thought WTF, when you were applying the “luminous” moss effect. But once dry, it looks fantastic. I’m definitely going to be using that.
For rust effects on a board you could probably get thin iron sheet which is dirt cheap and coat it in vinegar and salt mixture. It’s lightweight and you get a real rust effect.
I've been using poundshop brown acrylic frame sealant mixed with sand and a little water as a basing texture for a few years now. For stony ground I add some bird grit into the mix; for swamp terrain bases I added some black paint to darken it and some dried herbs to give the impression of rotting vegetation.
What a amazing ideas 💡 thank you that would look amazing as a plague marine base
My favorite is the moss, I need to do a project where I can use this one. I love making my own products at home, I actually watched your how to make sculptamold the other week and am making a huge batch for a fraction of the cost compared to store bought. Thanks for that!
I recenently made about 50 bucks worth of green Stirland Mud from sand, cheap craft paint, and ready made drywall compound for like... a bucks worth of material. All thanks to an old video you made Luke. Thank you for saving me $$$
Another good one for rust, if you want really extreme rough texture, is superglue + sodium bicarbonate.
Cheers Luke,
I caught the "Wargaming bug" in 1972 and there was no shop bought products then so we had to do what you do , Your GG products are a boon to peeps like me , (Ta muchly for that .) There is one more thing i use , Cigarette ash , mixed with pva gives a good Concrete/Stone finish , but keep that one under ya hat 😉..
Any-hoo ~gud upload and cheers.
Luv~Luv~Luv .
🐺
Basically whatever you do just don't buy citadel and it's fine. Agrellan earth is 7.80€ for 24 ML pot and GSW Mojave Mudcrack is about 5.50€ for 60 ML bottle.
There's very little difference in performance but GSW doesn't chip off as easily so it's little bit better.
Vallejo texture paints are far more durable than citadel ones and come in 200ml tubs which cost about 9.50€. 24ml bottle of Astrogranite is 7.80€ so you get about 8 times more texture paint for same amount of money when buying Vallejo.
Yup I think price, quality, and lack of fuss the Vallejo texture paints have been my go to base paints since before GW even made a texture paint.
This is the answer. Been using the same pot of Vallejo texture paste for like 4 years going now and it cost me 12 bucks. Mixing my own would take way more time and be way less consistent. @@slimjim7411
I've found that egg shells can make for really cool bases as well. I take the egg shells, put them in a jar with a lid (usually it's a Homepride Pasta bake jar 😂) and shake until I get the size I want. Then I mix the egg shell with P.V.A. glue and slap it on the base. Prime, paint. Done. If I'm after a pointy ground effect I wait for the glue to dry a bit then place some larger bits of egg shell where I want them. It's an interesting look.
That's a really cool idea bud!, I can see how it would work.
It's like walking on eggshells with you
@@asafoetidajones8181 😂
I used egg shells to do cracked lava floor. Red/yellow base the paint egg shells black and slap em on. Nice and easy, looks goot too.
If you grind them up and put them in your meals they are a great source of calcium too ;)
Yes Luke! This is why I subbed back in the Yoshi in the attic days!
KILLED IT
i appreciate your video but also you can make the rust effect with just paints and dry brushing only
also for the textures you can just use any sands/paper towel, etc.
Great stuff; thanks for sharing. That moss paint looks especially cool.
A while back, my local Michaels had some "non-slip grit additive" in a jar, for a big discount. I experimented with it in texture paint. It worked pretty well, mixed with PVA and paint. I also added some fairly large grit sand, for added texture. I've mostly done it as texture prior to priming models, but it worked decently well on its own from my experiments.
I've also acquired a kind of snow effect paste ("Snow-Tex" from DecoArt), but I haven't yet tried it out.
This feels like a video from the attic but with better production - the only thing missing was something from poundland🤣.
Really like all of these, but the moss paint wins for me👍
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I bet that wall filler came from Poundland - that was where I got mine for terrain stuff!
Really appreciate your effort and honesty in this video. You didn't hesitate to say "well this is good for terrain, but I'd still use THIS for a model". Helps clear up the value in both products. I really needed this as I'm about to do a display board for Legion and need a mud texture. This'll save me a ton of cash, thanks Luke!
thanks for essentially reuploading the higher production quality of the mud video. i went looking for it about a year ago and couldnt find it and have been guessing on how it was done ever since. cheers!
a good looking snow effect is always appreciated. And you have lots of experience in creating snow dioramas!
While I'm lazy and usually end up buying these kind of products from AK or Mig, I do love these "how to's".
I just have to remember to use it next time I need texture paint. (-:
All were very useful but the moss is pretty epic and it tones down so well as you pointed out.
Luke is honestly the best in the business. Loved it my dude!
For big rust areas I use a rust colour first, then hairspray for wet chipping, top colour on, wet stiff brush to wear down to the rust, Matt varnish then a bit of silver drybrushing and oily brown washes to finish :). Great for vehicles and big areas.
For rust I use alcohol ink. Start with yellow then add orange, then a red brown, and finally a very dark brown. Just layer then and do it while they are still tacky so they mix a bit.
I'll keep the mud texture in mind when I run out of the store bought stuff. My dioramas are fairly small so that stuff should last for at least 12-15 of them. A lot of my dioramas show a lot of raw sand or earth. The moss? Love it. I might give the rust a try, but it'd have to be super fine powder mixed in. I go out in the world and collect coffee cans full of dirt from construction sites, and after sieving them, I get a very fine powder. I'll give it a whirl.
Honestly I've never used any factory made texture paints or coverings. I've always just mixed stuff up. But I've used sand, kitty litter, corn meal, crushed stone, aquarium gravel, rocks and dirt from outside, baking soda, coffee grounds, and anything else that I have ever thought of. And basically mixed it into glue or paint, or both. I've also just put glue on a base and shook stuff on. I've always felt the pre-made texture paints were too expensive for the amount you got. And I'm glad you shared these recipes with us. I'd rather just make my own. Especially since it would be about an hour ordeal to drive my closest shop that carries pre-made texture paints, buy it, and drive back. Most of the stuff I use can be purchased at a closer shop in 10 minutes if I don't screw around looking at other stuff in the shop. And can be bought cheaper and in bigger abundance.
The best moss and lichen substitute I’ve ever used is matcha tea sealed with PVA glue
I use a dollar store sieve and tea strainer to sift regular sand. The sieve pulls out the small rocks, the tea strainer lets through the very fine sand leaving you with regular sand. Three grades of basing material from one bag.
Normally for snow I use baking soda plus PVA glue and water if necessary, egg shells for cracked terrains, there's also coffee powder (used) and PVA plus sand and acrylic colours for terrain
What I love most about your videos is the motivation and inspiration they give me to work on terrain
For rust effect I have found that a layer of a dark red brown dry pigment with a lighter orange dry pigments gives great results. And it's wicked cheap if you buy some artist pastel chalk sticks. Like $25 for every color you could ever need and the sandpaper to process it down to a powder.
i liked all of them. Giving people a choise to use what suits them the best. my first atempt on snow (25 years ago ) was plaster an drybrushing it with a white paint as it hardens to much "off-white". Great Job and as allways an entertaining Video.
Love the moss effect best. The rust looks very effective (though people tend to overdo the orange). I'll probably give the wall filler ground paste a go, I assume you can mix up a whole container with acrylic paint and sand and keep the lid on to keep it from setting, as long as you don't add the PVA?
You can even add the PVA. As long as the lid is on tight, should last for ages. I have some texture paint I made 18+ months ago stored in a clip top yoghurt pot and it’s still fine.
Made a pot up using the wall filler (in the container it came in as was half empty), probably 3 years ago using filler, paint, sand, grit and PVA, and its still fine. It will probably outlast me at this point
"Texture" and "Dry" are a complete waste of money. Mainly because they DRY up... If only I had used them up by then. An empty pot is usually an indicator of a good paint. Quite annoying when products are made and sold not to last... I have coffee beans that have been fresh longer. The GW pots are not tight enough by far.
You could always swap bottles. I put all of my "normal" citadel paints into empty MiG dropper bottles. I've just started experimenting with the terrain stuff, but you could use things like small mustard jars or similar to keep them from drying out.
That moss paint is bloody good looking Luke. I struggle with moss on my scenery but now i know what to do. Loving that rust aswell
This was very helpful and I like the mud, snow and rust the best. Thanks for sharing this and the effects look great.
Good video always appreciate money saving tips ( i use ash to bulk out filler/grout & stale cinnamon or real rust for rust & cat litter for stone or smashed up for dust & cheap trade pva sealer seems to sub for mod podge & cheapest pale emulsion coloured with craft paint or ink saves some money too ) cheers
I would use all the homemade versions, simply because they are cheaper and can be easily customised to suit my project. Love to see you doing more home made alternatives, it's what got me watching you years ago.
I’ve learnt more from your channel and am just getting in to 1/35 scale model but the tips are absolutely amazing that’s why I was keep popping back to watch your videos and I subscribed
Small shop bought pots make sense when you don't need much. The moss paint will be a game changer for me, thanks for the tip!
Another great video. Kudos Luke. I love how you KNOW what these products are really made of and how they work so you can replicate them. Not too common I think, so well done to you!
That moss look amazing, I really want to build some scenery now! Very inspiring!
I haven't done a lot of terrain stuff but wall grout works wonders for building up texture, really easy to work with. That moss idea sounds brilliant, I'll have to give that a go.
i found at my local dollar store bags of sand and moss in the planters section and with a bit of paint and glue you can create some good scenes!
I have used all of them slightly different recipes but I love the snow and the rust
Some great ways to make effects on a budget. Will try them out, thanks for sharing!
Loved all the suggestions and will try them out. I did think your homemade mud could be just a wee tad darker as compared to the shop bought product. Great cost saving suggestions!
Snow and the moss are definitely the most useful, but the mud and rust are still up there.
Great video chap.
layered roof slate, easy to come across, easy to clean and break, adds great layers
5:13 with what? a lil bit of war?
I use spackle mixed with sand, craft paint, and pva for most of my bases. But I alter amounts of the different things to make it have a different effect. For instance adding lots of water will give more crackle effect.
I’ve been making snow like this for a while. Works great. I use a ton of it because, for some reason I always gravitate towards frosty games and factions (Frostgrave and AoS Beastclaw Raiders). Not sure why I never considered moss paint before. But I’m probably going to go mix some up right now lol
Thanks for braking it down I'll be using all of them. keep up the awesome work you do
Good stuff as always, Interesting video. My challenge to you is to make a home made texture paste that cracks like some o the GW ones (martian iron earth etc). I've had limited success with Calcium Bentonite.
Try coffee grounds, pva, a bit of water, and maybe some craft paint if you want to try and color it a bit. If you play with the mix the material separates as it dries and cracks. Sort of gives a cracked lava field look.
That moss is amazing! You're so clever with this kinda stuff..inspiring!
Very helpful.
I can safely say I'll be using all of these over the course of my hobby life. But more importantly and most currently I'll be using the snow one as I plan on making a small board for Star Wars Legion to represent Hoth, the ice world.
Forest floor effect pva glue and green tea scattered works well I was pleased with the results.
Try getting some iron powder, graphite, and water in a cup. Let it sit for a couple of days. Add some pva glue, filler compound, and spread that on. You can add some tan paint and white ink. You will be surprised at the results.
The moss paint looks very interesting and will be getting a batch done for my terrain.
I like to use Tea leaves from a used Tea bag, pva and a little green paint to make Moss.
Love having more tools for the toolbox! Thanks for videos like this!
These look great! Definitely like the look of the moss. The only paint I use is Games Workshop Texture paint Agrellan Earth. I wonder if there is an alternative to that? It dries and creates cracks like a desert planet.
Now the Rust and Moss effects are epic and will use that technique on my next project.
For dirt I've taken to using coconut coir. You can hit it with a gloss varnish and some washes if you want it muddy. (Thank you Squidmar for the idea) I've recently been experimenting with tea leaves for scatter flock as well. Green tea (from tea bags, so ground up) seems to be solid for half mulched leaves.
Love these techniques. Thanks very much. My favs were the moss paint and the inexpensive rust.
Thank you for sharing the moss paint recipe! It will be very fun to use this wonderful paint!
Prices are in $AUD buut:
100ml filler = $10
PVA Glue = $5 ($8 for your brand)
GGS Tropical Beach = $12
Paint = $1
Total = $28 for 100g. For the same price I can get two 200ml of Vallejo's texture paint.
Love the moss paint! Perfect for adding some more colour to my swamp-themed Nighthaunt army.
This was an awesome video. I'm just starting out and this was very helpful. I'm going to try all of these
Moss paint.. thats a new one. I just glue the flocky stuff straight on... great idea making a premix moss goop! Thanks luke
I don’t tend to do lots of terrain so shop brought items do me but I love that moss look and will have to give it a go at some point. Great vid❤️❤️❤️
I like the Vallejo ground cover material my self for bases. But for larger things I use a mix of PVA, cheap acrylics and sand.
Cool vid. Must say I’m definitely a fan of the Golden products you showed inside the Skillshare section. Their texture mediums are truly amazing. However, one thing which always amazes me is how just the slush from my washed paint brushes, either with a little gesso or matte medium also gives the most amazing effects. With water added suddenly you have amazing pin washes for scraps. And so indeed we can go and on and on. Definitely will try the eggshells I saw mentioned further up in the comments. So, yes, got some favorites, but simple screwing around and experimenting is indeed the utmost favorite of ‘m all. Thanks 🙏 for sharing.
I think the mud mix would suit the most number of uses over all but I intend to try them all! Great stuff!!
Pumice powder makes a good basing mix. PVA + paint +pumice = win. Sold in concrete section of stores. They sling it on top for texturing concrete.
Omg I just bought moss texture and you bring us this. Also I've been looking for a diy typhus corrosion for months great vid.
Can you store this homemade texture paints once you make them? Can they hold or will they dry up too fast?
I know they are quite easy to make, but i usually do single bases, small pieces of scenery or small dioramas, so mixing them up every single time is a hustle. Being able to store it and use it like a store bought product would make all the difference in the world.
Cool, all effects look super nice.
Have you ever considered putting those types of products in sealed ziplock bags? The ones where you cut the top off but it can be closed after that.
Personally like the rust option mate as I have never thought of making that myself! taken up your offer too bro!
cheers
Matt
For me it is the moss. Planning on a jungle ruin board, so it is very wellcome
The moss is a great idea, I might do that myself
My rust is similar except I just use brown paint first and then I make the texture paint with the orange. It's funny because the result is almost the same, just more flaky rust.
While it may not be a comparison, the moss is exactly what I need for putting together the models from Dominion. They are already in a swamp and that is gonna add a nice pop of color near water or ruins!
I was genuinely surprised by how good the moss effect worked!
Thanks for sharing this informative video!
I actually did the snow effect's with what I had kicking around for my chaos marine base's.
Awesome tips. Been using the moss recipe for a while, it’s great. Keep up the great content 👍🏼
I liked the moss paint and rust recipe. Thanks for the video.
I like all of the DIY options over the shop bought with the exception of the snow.
I loved all of them. The moss paint ill be using today for my kruleboyz thank you luke !!
I just use a mixture of coffee, enamel brown paint and plastic. Give an amazing mud texture.
Great approach, very true, thanks very much for posting this! Combining different materials and approaches depending on cost, volume and desired effect is very wise and can be much more cost-efficient in the long run.
I would add another factor: location. Currently I live in a place practically in the middle of a desert, so I have millions (...maybe billions?) of tons of all the types of sand I could wish practically in my backyard. So I would never buy "packaged" sand, it makes no sense (though I still have to bake the sand to fully sterilize/disinfect it and finding small, uniformelly-sized rocks or coarse sand is still difficult...). But I have almost no trees, tree bark, nor twigs etc. And no nearby home depot to buy cheap every day stuff to replace some branded products. So it makes sense to buy the latter through online shopping from Europe or the US. But when I was living in Europe, in a totally different physical (and urban) environment, the situation was exactly the opposite.
One more thing is, I find the experimenting with household, cheap materials, to achieve various painting and weathering results and environmental effects, very thrilling, part of the joy of modelling & painting, so there's another advantage over the ready-made products! Creating "natural" rust using iron trimmings or even better, kitchen wire mesh, and vinegar and baking soda etc is one example, but there are so many others.
Now we need some advice on how to replace branded "moss" with some household or back yard material. Real moss? (duh)... Tee leaves (sterilised)? Sponge trimmings? Maybe... 😅
Thanks for the great vid mate. love the moss paint and rust effects.
My favorite rust is do the base in rust use salt and masking to hide what you want to show as rust and paint the model with a regular color.
Isn't the saying 'another arrow in your quiver'?
Still I like how genuine you are and just how much of a quality of life your videos are.
Making my first proper board (junkyard) and the rust effect will help a lot.