Ice World Basing Experiment #1

Hi there, I have recently begun collecting a Tau army as well as Clan Skitr, now my Tau are from Sept Dal'yth (purple markings) and I've decided on a colour scheme of blue-greys and ice blues as Tau are known to apply camouflage to their armour and I'm envisioning this army on a desolate ice world with solid ice underfoot, drifts of snow and patches of partly-melted slush and slurry.

This blue-white shiny glistening ice is perfect

I love the blue tones to this ice

I've got some Citadel Snow 'flock' and Mourn Mountain terrain paint.

So my first attempt was the paint a bare base with Mourn Mountain, followed by a drakenhof nightshade wash.

Unfortunately the effect was not as blue as I'd hoped.

I then added PVA to all top surfaces and used the snow flock.

I can almost hear the crunch of fresh snow.

I had left a small area behind each hoof  bare of snow to represent hoofprints of crushed/melted snow, I then added a layer of 'ardcoat to give it a wet look.

Unfortunately I also added a Lothern Blue/Lahmian Medium 10/90 to the hoofprints... which failed miserably as it seeped almost instantly into the surrounding snow.

Hmm... more experimentation is called for!

I've seen some snow bases that show more of the earthy ground beneath, that is what I'll work on next.