Finishing off the Prince of Novograd figure base

Snow time

This week was all about finishing off the base for the Prince of Novograd figure.  After all my lovely oil colour work I covered it all up with snow effects.  The first layer was done with Noch snow glue with AP snow over the top.  Once this had dried overnight I did another layer of snow glue and sprinkled with Woodland scenics snowflakes.  Also some small brown grass tufts were glued in.  Once that had dried overnight I added a layer of 50/50 PVA/water mix and using the Noch static grass shaker applied 4Ground Snow static grass.  Again after that had dried overnight I was ready to check the results.

It was good but the final layer of static grass was a bit too fuzzy.  Ie the static grass was standing up too much.  This was especially noticeable on top the rock.  So I first wetted down all the static grass (not too much otherwise I ends up looking like alien fungus) and then applied a layer of 50/50 PVA/water mix over all of it to keep the static grass down.  This made the snow effects look much more like clumping snow which was good.

 

Getting close...

Then finally the figure has been glued on to the base.  I have repainted the bottom of the banner (some paint had rubbed off when it was stuck in the cork that was holding it) ready for it to be glued.  Also the pin in the helmet has been painted dark brown to hid the pin when it is stuck into the small tree.  Now the only really issue is how to stick the shield on securely.  There aren’t any attachment points so I’m thinking of drilling a small pin into the resin rock base and using that as the bottom anchor point for the shield.  Then a extra bit of snow can be used to hid the join.  Once all the pieces are glued in then the final blending of the figure into the base can be done with oils and/or pigments.  Almost there.