Hobby Roundup. Spring Clean 2024.
Making Winter Bases
The prepared base.The base is coconut fibre glued on with PVA glue. More PVA which is heavily diluted with water is then washed onto the coconut fibre. This is then washed with Liquitex Raw Umber ink. Various tufts were then applied.
With scenic products applied.All the products used are by AK. I was going for a melting snow effect. Snow Sprinkles is the ideal product for this. I used Ice Sparkles around this to get a melting freezing effect. Snow Microballons is a fine powder and this gives a great effect of freshly fallen snow. The last two products were applied with diluted PVA. Finally Terrains Snow gives a thicker snow effect and is a paste. I applied this in small clumps and also brushed it over the vegetation.
Here I have added the figures and more of the basing effects to make the vignette look more realistic. 
The scene depicts the eve of the Battle of Towton 1461. Sir Robert Whittingham ponders the question from one of his retainers, ‘How do you think the battle will go on the morrow?’ Robert would have been about 40 years of age at the time of the battle. His effigy shows him as being clean shaven. Perhaps because of the cold weather and him being on campaign excuses him having a beard in my representation. I took inspiration from Graham Turner’s beautiful painting of Robert. The figures are shortly to be released by Ragged Staff MInis and are available on Etsy.
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