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Originally Posted by caravaggio
i was asking about this in another thread and people were being stupid and not giving me a straight answer. what kind of paint are you guys using to make your "light snow"? do you use a protective clear coat afterward. my friend and i were assuming that hasbro sprays the masterset tiles using a stencil. i imagine you used a brush. how does it wear? is there any tackiness to the touch? would someone who didn't know better think your light snow was stock?
by the way, thats a really cool map. what is the center of the water?
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I used a paint from the craft store (Michael's) specifically made for painting on plastic. It had better adhesion than the standard enamel paint.
Painting with a brush may be your first instinct, but it will be tediously slow. I used the kind of paint pads that you can commonly find at Lowes or Home Depot instead. I had just been in the midst of doing some major paint work on my home and was quite agile with them.
You just put a thin coat of paint on the pad and pass it over the hexes. The colored part is raised, so the paint (if you are careful) is applied only to the colored parts you need. You will mess up from time to time and need to wipe off some white paint from the brown, but it was much faster.
I gave it a couple passes and let it dry.
I then did some touchups with small brushes. Afterwards, I sprayed the hexes with a thin layer of dullcote from Testor's.
I did not want to paint the interlocking sides, because it will make the pieces hard to slide together and eventually you will begin scratching the paint off. The Hasbro pieces won't have that problem because they are completely molded in white plastic.
My light snow looks close to the Hasbro prototypes that were posted on their site last year. It also has not faded or chipped after many uses.
My group had guessed the rules for heavy snow correctly, so we have been playing with snow for a long time. The excitement in the Tundra sets for me will be in making complete snow environments and using the ice and glaciers.
The center water tile is a custom made 7 hex water piece.
