Snow Basing

I have finally gotten around to writing this -

You will need –

GW snow mix

A tea strainer or small sieve.

PVA glue

Clean water.

Starting with a base I have already painting and added a bit of static grass too (coming soon – basing with weathering pigments).

 The first step is to liberally apply some watered down PVA glue to the top areas of the base.

Next take your tea strainer and gently apply a layer of snow to the base

It should be a fairly heavy coating, something like this.

Tap off the excess snow, leaving you with this.

This lays down a coat of thin snow that looks like it is slightly frosted.

Next mix up some snow mix with PVA glue and water it down a little, make sure you are using clean water otherwise it will stain the mix and not in a good way.

The mix should have the constituency of thick cream and is applied to the upper areas of the base and areas where snow would collect.

Once this is done give the base another dusting of snow mix, this is very important otherwise the top layer will end up looking like a sludge rather than snow fall.

And it should look like this.

Snow 8

Happy snow basing.

Paint Stripping - A sort of guide.

Right I will start this off by say that I forgot to take before photos and so have pulled them from eBay (as that is where I got the models from).

I brought 4 models that where not painted to my taste or even very well!

I have removed the bases, ending up only destroying 1 to get it off without breaking the model!

These have been left to soak in Superdrug own brand acetone free nail varnish remover. You may be asking why acetone free is important, well this can also be used for removing paint on plastic models without damaging them! I guess any brand of acetone free nail varnish remover would work, I have only used Superdrug as that is what the girlfiend had in the flat.

After they have soaked for a good amount of time, I like to leave metal models overnight you need to attack them with an old toothbrush to remove any paint from the detail areas. 

After that rinse them throughly in cold water to remove any trace of the stripping and you should have a good as new model.

I will post up photos of the 4 models I have soaking at the moment later when I get home.