6mm snow recommendations

[Evil Dave]

Does anyone have any opinions on the various snow products for use with 6mm models? I'm looking to model ankle height snow on strips of 6mm Epic infantry.

[fred]

I've only used with 10mm figures, but the snow is fairly fine. The key thing I found was that painting the bits of the base that were going to be snow covered, with white paint made it look much better.

[Evil Dave]

Which product did you use, Fred?

[HerbertTarkel]

Woodland Scenics snow mixed with white glue and a bit of water, works at all scales.

[Daeothar]

Taking scale into account, I wouldn't bother with dedicated snow products myself.

Just a fine sand on the base, completely painted white, with maybe a extremely thin wash of a very light blue for some contrast. It's how I did my own winter/snow table. And I aim to keep my table surfaces as scale agnostic as possible to avoid having to make multiples of the same type.

On my table, mainly used with 28mm, I used regular sand, which I then painted over in several layers with some left over white wall paint mixed with PVA. Then the aforementioned wash and then several drybrushes of white over that.

For bases, the above should work just as well; at 6mm, sand, paint and glue will level out to about ankle height anyway, so no need to use different techniques on bases and boards...

[anevilgiraffe]

at 6mm I wouldn't even bother with sand, just use whatever base filler you use, and churn it up a bit with a cocktail stick... for where it's been walked through, the paint will make it look right.

[fred]

Finally re-found my pot of fake snow - it’s from Gale Force nine