the doog
Steve,
That's a killer presentation! I love how the snow is all chewed up! Very cool model! How did you do the snow?
Thank you doog.
That was done back in the stone ages before there was a local hobby shop around here or internet connections.
What I did was find a old 12" x 12" plaque at the salvage store, mask off the area to be covered and did it in the image on the box top, which was all snow.
Even when you're standing in real snow (1/1 scale) it's nearly impossible to see any grain or texture in it so I opted to use (old school) wall joint compound. In my opinion there would not be ANY texture in 1/35 scale snow. So I laid down a nice even layer and pressed the tank treads into it repeatedly to get a nice tread trail going.
Then,
I sat the tank aside and built up more layers of the joint compound but left the track impression area untouched as it was imprinted with the tracks. This will give the effect of a deep snow trail.
And Then,
Take a soft small 3/8 to 1/2 inch wide flat brush and dip it in a container of water and wipe over the snow to contour and smooth it out like fresh fallen snow. You can do this repeatedly until you like how it looks - you can even come back the next day, wet it again and carry on since this stuff can be re-hydrated many times over.
And then, and THEN........
After placing the tank into the track pattern you can add small snow areas onto/into the track in the same manner. The churned up look is from small dried pieces of the compound inside the container. You strategically put the chunks (don't wet the chunks, gee that sounds bad) into position after wiping the wet brush across the snow surface, placing them and letting them dry in place. For all reasonable handling they will stay in place after the wet surface dries. It's been 24 years now and it's still all together but dusty.
By the way, don't forget to mangle those clumps into the running gear too.
The only thing I did different with the icicles was to attach them with elmers glue instead of C/A to let gravity hang them properly in relation to the stance of the vehicle as the glue slowly dried; they aren't heavy enough to fall from the glue. You can also gently tease them out with white glue after they have completely dried in place.
Well Karl, hope this explains it well enough.... if it doesn't, just let me know.
