Hi Lou
Yes it is airbrushed there is a small amount gloss laquer to go on top of this yet, to give the final effect of melted snow around the edges, its coloured with the original colour used to spray the ground under the snow.
Janne
The ground work started off as the original base that came with figure, glued and screwed to the wooden base. the root was then attached to the base on a peice of steel wire to be able to bend it around to the desired position. The rest of the ground work was then built up with normal household filler and left to dry.
The next stage involved using superglue light gravel to create the muddy area under the snow, when this was dry I glued on top of this some of the leaves that used on the tree at the end. Once this was completely dry, the dark mud colour was mixed with dark leather, black and ochre, this was then airbrushed over the whole of the ground area and lightly up the tree base and left to dry.
The next stage was the snow. I use something for snow that is very difficult to get hold of, its called Alum (its actually a powder for bed sores) this aside it works brilliantly, it is transleucent and when it’s ground down to form a finer powder, it stays slightly seethrough. I use white wood glue (no water) to attach this to the surface of the ground and just sprinkle the Alum on top, then tap off the excess immediately. Then build up to give deeper snow. Once this is dry I spray the base ground colour around the edges to give the thinned out snow look and then use gloss laquer to give the final wet ground look....
I would like to hear how anybody else does snow, as I will run out of Alum one day, I just would like to say that the Alum was not prescribed for me by a doctor, I was told to use it for snow :lol:
Well I hope this helps.....
Dave
