Snowing Up Your Terrain!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- In the second of our snow terrain tutorials, we look at snowing up your buildings and MDF kits. We cover frosting up terrain, adding easy icicles and finally adding snow to the roofs of your kits! These diorama techniques will help you model snow to the next level! Hope it helps you folks!
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Looking Good Mel.
for snow effects that look great I have found the canned snow you spray on windows at christmass time comes out a treat. Just another option. It goes on and stayes on no extra coverings needed.
isn't that wax?
Well the cans I use here in Australia are more of a paint product and the snow effect is down to the cans spray nozzle it gives a dusty type of effect but thicker. The further back I hold the can the lighter the dusting effect. Once Christmass is over a good soapy spung washes it away.
Hairspray technique... "simple like that"... OMG you did it so fast and fourious! Nice hand Mel! Your great experience shines through every single frame of all your videos! Thanks for this umpteenth beautiful tutorial!
First we had the gopher dance. Now we have the snowy sieve dance!
that wasn't dancing!
@@TheTerrainTutor Oh c'mon! You *know* you were making some moves there!
Fantastic, Mel. I think I'll try a snow scenery tutorial soon on my channel. Good techniques here - thanks!
15:48 you need to put a cake making turntable on your amazon wishlist, buddy 😉
I do need a lazy susan
@@TheTerrainTutor don't get a lazy one. They're good for nothing!
@TheTerrainTutor 39cm wooden one from ikea is £6 and works great.
Beautiful work. I have no intention of doing snow terrain, I just enjoyed watching as it was therapeutic.
That, Sir, is absolutely beautiful terrain. Thanks for that tutorial. Never thought that it can be that easy.
Looks amazing Mel and looks like real snow from any one side. A minor detail but more realistic snow on roofs would be to have the windward side almost bare and much heavier buildup on the leeward side, even covering the whole roof surface
Your silicone icicles look quite good. I've used silicone caulking in the bathroom and would have been thoroughly turned off to the icicle idea had I not seen you do a great job of it. Time to build that winter in New England train layout!
Great job, Mel!
Hope it helps mate
Great, this tutorial made me want to put on a sweater! Some great techniques and tricks in there, Mel!
You, sir, are a Wizard! Great fun to watch.
Awesome set!
looks awesome Mel! That icicle technique is a new one, great all the same
Its awesome to see you used clear silicone sealer for icicles; I recently picked up a small tube of it for this purpose and was trying to work out how to go about actually making the icicles. One thing I'm thinking; once the initial pass has had a chance to dry, you could probably come back in with another round of silicone if you really wanted to build up some larger icicles or clusters, to get that sort of layered look you'll often see in areas that have had a lot of snow fall and consistently cold weather for a prolonged period. I find it interesting that you chose hairspray to help adhere your snow flock; there are a couple of videos over on the Precision Snow and Ice company website where they demonstrate using hairspray as well, to get a really thick build up of snow on terrain. When used in conjunction with the sieve, the final reveal really does look like small bits and clumps of that fluffy looking snow you sometimes see, stuck to the roofs and walls of the buildings. Amazing job with this!
Thanks buddy, TM terrain is a big fan of the hairspray so I've been playing with it quite a lot. It does give excellent results!
Wonderful tutorial, so tempted to make a snow board now.
Thank you. Love it!
Catching up with a lot of your content! Excellent stuff. For the icicles, you could also cut thin pieces of plastic from a blister or packaging and apply silicone or a polymer to it for longer thicker icicles. Great stuff!
your before and after pics are amazing
Atmospheric, realistic and superb...Awesome!
Great vid , nice 2 stage snow on the roofs
I may be wrong about the train layout. I'll be building the Christmas elf village for under the tree!
Thanks for this video Mel! Awesome ez techniques I've been looking for
That looks amazing mate, seriously amazing.!
Thank you very much.
I would love to see a few snow covered pines on this :D
If I played a drinking game with his videos and drank everytime he said "Yeah" I would be dead after the first episode.....lol
Thanks!
Brilliant. Thanks a lot
being mad at my self for getting stones always too dark and then having to add more paint and dry brush to lighten them up and eventually covering up too much detail. tho I think it wont be a problem with the snow base Im making for my large dragon tyrant. practically black stone is gonna look nice in contrast to white snow.
Some great advice I came across not so long ago concerning painting dirt and rocks is to always go a shade or two lighter than what you think you're lightest highlight will be; in the case of painting dirt, I now always use a bone/ivory color as my last highlight, and with rocks it depends on what my color tone is (i.e. green, gray, blue etc) but I always try to end with a *very* light version of that, knowing that acrylic paint always looks lighter when wet, plus the fact that I'm going to be adding washes and flock/tufts to the base as well means that I'll be adding more shading back into the base to help knock back the brightness of the highlights, I know that kicking the color up one or two notches past my initial estimate for how light I want to to go should bring me to just about where I want to be during the whole process of painting and detailing the base.
As usual great vid.👍👍👍👍👍
EXCELENT!!!!
It's turning out great Mel! But it needs palm trees.... ;)
frosty ones?
You should have worn a mask... or do it outside.... please watch your health Mel. Mental & physical. (But yeah, I catch myself standing outside with no mask basecoating minis like a looney XD)
Mel, does the frosting technique also work for trees and bushes in that way? I am working on some scatter pieces for the first time and you're videos help me out greatly. Kinda stuck at the moment because I need to wait until I can buy the AK interactive muddy ground and snow from the diorama series.
yep, works great on most things
Looking very good, mate. Hadn't thought about the silicone for icicles, I've just got a stash of clear sprue handy so far. Do you ever consider wind directions with your snowing? I imagine like on the roofs there'd have to be a more empty space on the opposite side from where the wind comes from, right? And also have snow piled up in one direction more than the other.
That's next level stuff mate, can't cram too much into these tutorials ;-)
sublime ,Mel is God
Interesting. Two questions for you. Would you use the sane process for figures and how do you do these snow dusting techniques with one hand
No, miniatures are different, one handed, I'd go with an airbrush mate
Have you done any Lord of the rings terrain toutrial?
Not specifically mate
BBBBBBRRRRRRR cold see more and sun day
Quick question. Are you mixing the snow flock in with the acrylic mix as well or just dusting on top? If so how much do you put into the mix?
I do, about 50/50 mix mate
Is there a place i could find some of this silicone thing for icycles but in lesser quantity ? I need it for snowy chaos marines so it will be some really tiny icycles and i don't need a lot. How much does the silicone pipe you used cost ?
About £2 mate, just get a tube or ask if any of your mates have any left over from a diy job
what acrylic filler do you use?
B&Q own brand mate
You sound like you've been neglecting to wear your air mask a bit too often. :( I'm hard of hearing and would have trouble understanding you if you wore a mask on-set, but your lungs are more important.