Chinchilla sand is great for this, really fine and you can get a big bag from a pet store for about £4 and its absorbent so takes paint and mixes very well Love your vids btw
TheTerrainTutor You can also use it mixed with a little filler and wood glue or PVA for basing, I've found sprinkling some larger grade sand on to it afterwards works better than mixing it in, you can really play around with it and it's as cheap as chips compared to the pots of textured basing on sale
Thank you so much for these vids! I appreciate all the little bits of advice and your self-talk always cracks me up. These videos have definitely leveled up my craft game.
For textured paint, can I use some of the sand down here in Florida? It ranges from coarse to fine. My house was built on some old swamp land. Got to love the innovations of developers! Anywho, the dirt around my house is more like silt. I have thought about getting some PVA, mixing it with this "silt" and paint and apply it to my military models for some desert sand or perhaps as mud as well. Would you suggest this?
Great video as always. If you don't mind I have a few questions on the paint. First, is there a kind of house paint thats better to use on terrain? Not a brand but a kind, like outdoor or oil based, latex maybe or is there Acrylic? Sorry if you covered this in another video, I don't know alot about paint outside model. I would like to be able to use house paint for terrain as it seems much more cost effective when compared to even arts and crafts paints. You can get the testers cheap but also alot of places have the cans that they mixed for a customer but wasn't the shade they wanted so sometimes you can get them cheap. Also, here I have seen that there is paint with texture in it already is that good or is it overly expensive for not a the best effect? Thank you for all the help and tips
I use standard emulsion in tester pots, some people prefer latex paint but I find basic emulsion better to work with. Textured paint isn't worth the hassle, just mix your own up like I did in the video. Hope that helps mate.
Hi, thanks foro you tutorials! just a question: ir I texturize the walls with watered down PVA as you say...do I have yo use the texturize paint (your grey paint step) also, ir just a spray could work as a first layer? thanks!!
Hi Mel, thanks for a great series of videos! I'm just getting started with using foamboard and heard through friends that the spray primers we use for miniatures will tend to melt the foam, but nothing has been said in regards to what can be safely used to basecoat foamboard creations. Any chance you could shed some light on this for me? Regards Antony
MDH Nightwing The only issue is the exposed foam edges, if you seal them with filler (spackle) or seal them with watered down pva, it'll be fine mate. Hope that helps.
TheTerrainTutor How to describe stucco.... like that really rough look on a Spanish home, maybe.. stuccoaz.com/Stucco_Arizona/Stucco_Textures/data/images/stucco_texture_finesandfloat.jpg
Sorry if my comment was nondescript, it was in reference to you looking forward to doing green scenery. ( as in paint your buildings green ) :-P Sorry again :-\
Thank you for this great tutorials. I tried a ruin myself and till painting it, it works very fine. But after painting, the paper from the foamboard "waves". It ... sorry for my bad english ... leaves the foam. I tried to take a picture. drive.google.com/open?id=0B8Iq0B2XvreVTDNZZDhXTlJFeU0 What was the mistake? Is there a possibility to rescue the building? I used pva from ponal and colors from the local hardware store. I mixed black and white together.
Looks like the fb got over saturated. You could rewet, and then peal it off and just paint the bare foam but it looks like you got a batch of dodgy fb mate
i bought home depot texture paint to paint mu foamboard scenery looks like this ibb.co/dNAj6J I'm happy with the results i only did one layer tho you can apply multiple layers to create heavyer effect
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Mel! I've great news! This cropped up on my recommended list. The algorithm is blessing you! Haha
Thank you so much 🙏 This video is going to save my school project.
Chinchilla sand is great for this, really fine and you can get a big bag from a pet store for about £4 and its absorbent so takes paint and mixes very well
Love your vids btw
zwicky93 Oh, that's a new one, thanks for the heads up mate and thanks!
TheTerrainTutor You can also use it mixed with a little filler and wood glue or PVA for basing, I've found sprinkling some larger grade sand on to it afterwards works better than mixing it in, you can really play around with it and it's as cheap as chips compared to the pots of textured basing on sale
Thank you so much for these vids!
I appreciate all the little bits of advice and your self-talk always cracks me up.
These videos have definitely leveled up my craft game.
Hi. I have to say you are inspiring. Now, it's up to me to gather some materials and give it a go! Cheers from Canada!
I've found a mixture of courseness in your media mixed with the glue makes a better textured base for painting.
You're bloody amazing man!!
For textured paint, can I use some of the sand down here in Florida? It ranges from coarse to fine. My house was built on some old swamp land. Got to love the innovations of developers! Anywho, the dirt around my house is more like silt. I have thought about getting some PVA, mixing it with this "silt" and paint and apply it to my military models for some desert sand or perhaps as mud as well. Would you suggest this?
Sure matey, it'll work fine
Great video. Keep them coming. William
William Stanley Cheers buddy
Yes, that's the way I do it, too. Good job! :)
It's so simple, cheers matey
Great vid mate
Cheers mate
Excellent as always... Well done buddy, Happy Modelling.. :O)
Thanks mate
my only question is; how strong is the second floor? Will it hold a Space Marine Dreadnaught at least?
i know this is a super old comments but it should. its reinforced by the columns and the glue.
Picked up 1 pound acrylic black im hoping its good enough for this
Really useful. Thanks dude.
Any thoughts on making stone walls for bolt action? I was thinking of chunks of cork stacked up?
Jack Penn No worries matey, cork works well, as does small stones or carved polystyrene.
I don't know how "grit" is calle din french, does fine sand does it ? Nice videos man !
+Brazouck fine sand will work fine mate
thanks
Great video as always.
If you don't mind I have a few questions on the paint. First, is there a kind of house paint thats better to use on terrain? Not a brand but a kind, like outdoor or oil based, latex maybe or is there Acrylic? Sorry if you covered this in another video, I don't know alot about paint outside model. I would like to be able to use house paint for terrain as it seems much more cost effective when compared to even arts and crafts paints. You can get the testers cheap but also alot of places have the cans that they mixed for a customer but wasn't the shade they wanted so sometimes you can get them cheap. Also, here I have seen that there is paint with texture in it already is that good or is it overly expensive for not a the best effect? Thank you for all the help and tips
I use standard emulsion in tester pots, some people prefer latex paint but I find basic emulsion better to work with. Textured paint isn't worth the hassle, just mix your own up like I did in the video. Hope that helps mate.
Hi, thanks foro you tutorials! just a question: ir I texturize the walls with watered down PVA as you say...do I have yo use the texturize paint (your grey paint step) also, ir just a spray could work as a first layer? thanks!!
I'd go textured paint mate
Mel, could you use Sandtex paint for this? Or is it too gritty?
Hi Mel, thanks for a great series of videos!
I'm just getting started with using foamboard and heard through friends that the spray primers we use for miniatures will tend to melt the foam, but nothing has been said in regards to what can be safely used to basecoat foamboard creations.
Any chance you could shed some light on this for me?
Regards
Antony
MDH Nightwing The only issue is the exposed foam edges, if you seal them with filler (spackle) or seal them with watered down pva, it'll be fine mate. Hope that helps.
Thank you Mel! That's exactly what I needed to know, thank you
great tutorial mate, did you get my inbox by the way?
Cheers matey, yes I did, i'll get it sorted this week along with Nick's mate
great vid :)
Cheers matey
What's that brown paint you use and where can I buy it? Thanks, great vid!
10 Of Clubs Gaming It's an emulsion tester pot from Wilkos called 'coffee' mate. hope that helps :-)
TheTerrainTutor thanks
how can you strength this? i imagine that its very susceptible to breaking and denting.
I can rest a hardback 40k rulebook on it fine
If you add more sand would it look more like stucco?
What's stucco?
TheTerrainTutor
How to describe stucco.... like that really rough look on a Spanish home, maybe.. stuccoaz.com/Stucco_Arizona/Stucco_Textures/data/images/stucco_texture_finesandfloat.jpg
Kitty litter and vermiculite chips work well
Sorry if my comment was nondescript, it was in reference to you looking forward to doing green scenery. ( as in paint your buildings green ) :-P
Sorry again :-\
Ah got ya, yeah, we need to get back to green mate :o)
Thank you for this great tutorials. I tried a ruin myself and till painting it, it works very fine. But after painting, the paper from the foamboard "waves". It ... sorry for my bad english ... leaves the foam. I tried to take a picture.
drive.google.com/open?id=0B8Iq0B2XvreVTDNZZDhXTlJFeU0
What was the mistake? Is there a possibility to rescue the building? I used pva from ponal and colors from the local hardware store. I mixed black and white together.
Looks like the fb got over saturated. You could rewet, and then peal it off and just paint the bare foam but it looks like you got a batch of dodgy fb mate
+TheTerrainTutor Ups. Thank you for the quick response. I'll try to use less paint the next time.
it actually looks great, like a piece of steel sheet cover got warped by the heat of some explosion! Just paint it rusty and imho it will be badass af
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Yay, lol.
Just paint the walls green then!!!! :-P
eh? :o)
i bought home depot texture paint to paint mu foamboard scenery
looks like this ibb.co/dNAj6J
I'm happy with the results i only did one layer tho you can apply multiple layers to create heavyer effect
Nice matey!
giggity giggity, ;)
giggity ;o)