hey


does anyone know how to make a muddy looking road its for a snow diorama.


cheers
matt

hi Matt, what I do is several steps but looks pretty convincing when finished.
First I paint the roadwork with an acrylic burnt umber.
When this is good and dry, I mix Mig pigment powders with matte acrylic medium and apply this to the outer edges of the road.
While the first coat of medium is still wet, mix pigments with semi-gloss medium and apply towards the center and wheel run edges. Mix the applied matte with the semi-gloss on the edges where they meet.
While the semi-gloss is wet, mix pigment and gloss medium and apply in the wheel run areas, again mixing the wet gloss into the edge of the wet semi-gloss.
Let it dry thoroughly and toch up with plain medium where needed.
One word of caution, if you scrub the medium with your brush it will get micro bubbles in it and look white when it's dry. It 's better to apply it heavy, than to try and work it around like paint.
Hope this helps!
Regards, Ed

cheers for the help but is there another of doing it as i dont have MIG pigment powders or any powders at all.

This is the other way:






:-) :-) :-) Lol. just kidding mate.

This is a helpful article to make mud:
https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/596

And here are some of the striking results you can achieve with Jurjens technique...





:-) On a serious side mate, you could always use some acrylic paste (found at most craft stores) and once dry, paint with some brown, and then apply a gloss coat, or, simply apply some thick brown glossy paint to begin with, OR some thick matt brown paint, then a gloss coat.
There are many ways to create such a simple effect, sometimes a little initiative is needed, just sit, and think about the problem for a while, Forums should be a last resort.
Cheers

Hey Matt
As Dave said Acrylic paste will work, but I'd recommend stirring in a colour before hand. Any builders' bog or filler products would work too, as well as pre coloured plaster... Pour or sculpt as you see fit, then having let it set for a while, work on the impressions you need in the mud.ie. tank tracks... This can be touched up as it sets, then to finish off you can add gloss where needed for fresh wet mud. Helps to look at a real muddy road to get the feel for how the mud is churned from tracks etc. and where water pools...
HTH
Cheers
Brad

Regular dirt filtered to get rid of the rocks and plants. Microwave to kil the unwanted, then just mix with some future and water and white glue or wood glue apply to the base. If you don't like the color you can always airbrush it a little, then add some pigments, grounded pastels or a good tone of make up from your mother( i was suprised but it looks not bad) then if its not gloss enought just spray a gloss varnish to it.

Use more future than water, the future should make the finished results glossy. but if you airbrush the whole and add pigments, it might dull it out a little.

Francois