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Ok here it is. Keep in mind this is a very rough first test. But I think it looks promising.

In the upper right corner is the unpainted material, then (clockwise) orange, blue, and red.
I applied quite a lot here for the color test, I guess normally you would probably apply a bit less.
The coolest thing is that you can make as much as you like in the colors you like.

 

Ok maybe I wrote some stuff badly understandable, let me quickly re-iterate over it:


The grass is regular Noch #07104 electrostatic grass, this one: https://www.noch.com/en/wild-grass-bright-green-6-mm-07104.html

The stuff I applied as flower petals is this: https://www.noch.com/en/scatter-material-flower-meadow-08400.html

I painted the #08400 scatter material by basically mixing it with a drop of my Army Painter acryllic paint.

Then I put some PVA on the finished grass and touched the PVA drops with the painted #08400 scatter material.

So the top right corner is just the #07104 with the unpainted #08400 on top, in the middle of the base (or on all my other grass bases in the blog) you can see the grass without the #08400.
The other corners are the differently painted #08400.

 

Noch sells pre-made flower fields but those are mats.
They also sell tufts but ~60 pieces (three colors usually so 20 each) are 15€ or so. Which is too restricted and too expensive IMO.

 

Flockbox is amazing

 

I just cut the flower tufts in half to make them smaller and go further.

 

Yeah of course there are cheaper tufts around. I haven't done the math properly but with the bag of that stuff being <2€ I think it could still be worth it, especially if you can use cheap house paint for the colors.

But I think the biggest advantage is placing them on bigger grassy surfaces. No glueing them in, just touching the spots you want to place flowers with a brush of PVA and then with the right color of petals.

If you have a rocky base and just want a few tufts then making them yourself probably isn't worth it even though the material is cheap as well.
50g of that gras is <8€ and you can make a few hundred tufts with that (using a plastic bag, drops of PVA glue on there, and the flock box). I've done that myself as well.
It may be cheaper if you need a LOT of grass tufts (several hundred) with a broad range of colors.

 

Yeah I was pretty surprised it is that cheap.

 

Ok I tried the yellow again and it worked. The trick was to use some white first, wait two minutes and then put the particles into the yellow. With a thicker yellow paint it will work without that step in between but I was too lazy to get one.

 

That Bastilodon looks AMAZING! Also congratulations on purchasing an airbrush.

 

Thank you!

The trick is: I use an electrostatic device. I use one manufactured by Noch, which is called the "Grassmaster" but you can also build a DIY version cheaply.
In this video you can see how it works, it basically shoots the fibers into the PVA glue along electromagnetic field lines.

 

I should add it works a bit differently for wargaming purposes.
You cannot put a nail into your bases so the trick I use is getting a sheet of aluminium foil and attaching the clamp to that. Then I put the base of the model near it.

 

Thanks! Can't wait to try it on some bases and create something really natural looking with that technique.

 

Sure! I do that grass stuff all the time, I'll just take some pictures of each stage next time for a little tutorial.