Although I did an earlier post on making a Snow base, I've come up with a much simpler way of doing the same thing, eliminating the need to use epoxy resin.
In the photo I show all the materials I used to accomplish this project. They are:
Krylon Fusion Outdoor Furniture Paint. White.
Dupli-Color Spray Primer. Grey
Testors Dull Cote. A flattening spray.
Basswood 1/2"
That outdoor furniture paint works great as it dries pretty fast. It will take several coats of it to get a real smooth finish. Make sure you wait till one coat dries before you spray on the next.
What we're trying to accomplish here is to get a piece of Basswood to look like properly scaled snow. I've seen some of the snow texture material available in craft stores or catalogs but they just don't look right to me. To look good the snow has to look in scale with the figure. When you reduce it to the scale of this figure it would be very smooth without any visible detail. Following the steps outlined will give you that effect. The secret to accomplish this is to sand, sand, sand, and then to sand again!
I didn't cover making the Red Oak Base as we did that in another post. So lets makes some snow!!
Myron. I use both kinds. They used to have a 15 and 30 minute epoxy but haven't seen it lately. I use a lot of that stuff too. Works great.
ReplyDeleteHope to ge this fella painted in the next few days. Sorry it's taking so long to wrap him up. Been working on an other project which is not complete.