There’s plenty of ‘how to make snow‘ tutorials in the web. Some are better than the others, still I do preffer to use my own technique when it comes to modelling snow. During many years of painting I tested this technique using a variety of materials, including baking soda, fine-grained white sand, salt and couple different modelling snow products. As it came out – Citadel Modelling Snow works best for me, producing a heavy, white coverage of snow. Yup – some techniques make snow look much more realistic, but just as Modelling Tufts – snow should compliment the miniature’s colour scheme and style. If you saw my Gallery then you know that I tend to pick rather colorful schemes for my works, thus my snow must look strong, heavy and white. Below is the tutorial of making such a snow…
1 I applied some Super Glue onto the previously painted surface...
2 I applied a quick fat layer of Citadel Modelling Snow and left it be for around fifteen seconds...
3 After Super Glue dried out, holding some snow in it, I shaked down all the remaining snow and applied another layer of Super Glue...
4 Then I applied another layer of snow - even bigger than the first one. This time I left it dry for around five minutes...
5 I shaked down all the remaining snow and used a soft brush to brush away all the little snow specks that were left on the base...
6 I used a large brush to apply some White Paint. I did not use drybrush technique, just some wet paint applied with a brush moved in one direction...
The final effect on the table looks like this:
I hope you like this effect and that this tutorial will work fine for you.
