K47 Grenadier Sections with lightning effect

All of my Bolt Action and K47 miniatures are based with static grass applied using a Flockbox from warpainter.net. I use a roughly 50/50 blend of 2mm green grass and 4mm marsh grass, again both from warpainter.net.

Here’s the setup I use:

I connect a metal sieve to the flockbox and use it to drop my grass from above. I started off keeping the flock in a metal tray on the flockbox and holding the model upside down above the flockbox, but I found this was harder to pull off. I would lower the model to try and get better coverage and it would end up touching the tray – at which point the grass just jumps to the model’s head.

An opened up cereal box under the setup is a good way of collecting all the grass that falls on your worktop. It is easy to use it to funnel everything back into your container when you are finished.

In the picture I am using a 12V battery, but after taking the photo I remembered that this doesn’t work as well as using a 12V mains plug. This provides a much stronger force on the grass but I have already blown one power supply up doing this.

Finally it’s worth pointing out that I do this wearing rubber gloves to avoid shocks!

I start by painting the model base with a thin layer of PVA. I don’t water the PVA down.

I then put the model in the middle of my metal tray, turn the flockbox on, and wave the sieve over the model for a few seconds.

Then the flockbox is turned off, the model turned upside down and patted a few times to shake off excess grass, and I move on the next model.

For the lightning effect I use an old scourer, scissors, pliers or tweezers,  super glue, and Fenrisian Grey paint.

Using the pliers I pull out lengths of the scourer wire to a couple of centimeter in length and then cut them off. Old scourers work better than new ones as the wire shape tends to be more straight and “lightning like”. New scourers tend to be very curly.

I then hold the lengths of scourer wire in the pliers to paint them my chosen lightning colour – in this case Fenrisian Grey.

Once the paint is dry I use a very small dab of superglue to secure the “lightning bolts” in to place.

Here’s the end result.