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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good!  Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 12:28 pm |
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personally I flock, paint, drybrush and then add some woodland scenics
however for my Warmaster Goblins I have just used GW sand (which has little rocks in) and some static grass
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 1:06 pm |
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Personally, for most of my recent models I have:
1). Glued layer of sand to the base
2). Painted sand w/ watered down Bestial Brown
3). Drybrushed Bleached Bone
4). Tidied up mistakes + painted base edge Bestial Brown
5). Glued little clumps of static grass to the base, and added some lichen...
Looks good imho, but bear in mind it is for a desert style board- have a look at GW's LOTR minis for a similar style of basing that fits in a little better with a grassy surface... 
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 3:43 pm |
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Paint the base the color you want, when dry, brush/cover with watered down Elmer's/PVA glue, then drip in flock, wait, shake off excess ... add bushes, stones, etc. with Super Glue later ...
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 5:35 pm |
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And don't forget the Fuller's Earth cat litter for boulders and rocks....or pepper for gravel (sneezy miniatures!).
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 7:46 pm |
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I've actually become rather lazy lately & have once again started to NOT use sand on epic armies & use a variety of Train flocks & static grass instead.
Its obviously not toobad a tecnique as its the basing style chosen by fanatic for the new Swordwind Eldar.
I use Peco flock, mixed 50/50 between PS-7 Light Earth and PS-5 Dark Earth (the sad thing is I knew this withot checking....).
Just paint the base brown, add glue & flock. When its dry, add patches of static grass as required.
The mix of flocks for the Earth means you get some nice variety in shades but dont need to worry about painting or drybrushing between figures on a tightly packed bases.
Basically, its a decent cheat method 
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:17 pm |
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Tuffskull- that sounds a good method. I like the idea of mixed 2 earth colours. Have you got any pics of Epic figures done using this method?
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:27 pm |
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Where do you get the flock TS?
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:31 pm |
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:32 pm |
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| Quote (TuffSkull @ 17 2004 May,19:46) | | Just paint the base brown, add glue & flock. When its dry, add patches of static grass as required. |
Which brown do you recommend?
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:37 pm |
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| Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 17 2004 May,20:17) | Tuffskull- that sounds a good method. I like the idea of mixed 2 earth colours. Have you got any pics of Epic figures done using this method?
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Afraid I dont have any pictures of epic figs as such that I can show at this time, but the warmaster Brettonian Sorceress on my site was based with this method:_________________ Cheers, Paul "TuffSkull" T. http://hobbybrush.com - My New Website, with thousands of painted Mini Pics :) http://hobbybrush.blogspot.com - My Hobby Blog TuffSkull's notepad- My Old Blog on Wargames Wiki.
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:46 pm |
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Bought the exact same ingredients - desperately hoping that if I can't do Tuffskull quality painting, I might be able to raise the standards somewhat with the basing .
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Post subject: Flocking - tips for making it look good! Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 2:52 pm |
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If Tuffskull was sponsored by PECO do you think he would have to flock his outfits every time he went to conventions? Could get kinda itchy.
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).... so ummm help me guys I am hoping that good flocking will make my appalling painting skills look quasi acceptable!
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