"Static grass and spray varnish?" Topic

Do you generally put static grass and grass tufts on your mini. bases before or after spray varnishing?

I've seen varying views on this. I know that too much varnish sprayed too close can frost over grass or tufts.

I did a number of resin buildings and terrain bases where I spray varnished after putting static grass on. I was careful to spray at the 12" distance and the static grass seemed to not be affected at all.

I'm wondering if I should change this for actual miniatures thst I have coming up for varnish. Or maybe no reason to? I've got about 100 dwarves that need varnishing and they already have grass so…

I have sprayed after finishing the bases, but I think normally I do the figures before basing.

I haven't noticed an issue when doing the basing first. I think if your spray frosts, then it would no matter when you did it.

I do the same as Mr. Smith.

As above. Spray after everything is done to help fix the grass. Never had any issues with frosting. If you are worried try 1 and see what happens rather than risk the lot.

Agreed with the last three posters--I give finished bases a quick shot of W&N Matte spray varnish to ensure everything is tacked down (also very helpful w/snow/ice bases). I spray outside in Florida and never a problem. No idea why anyone would spray closer than 12"--but that's probably the issue.

I always varnish before the grass. I always think, that some grass will end on the miniatures and will be fixed by the varnish.

I make sure I give each base a really good blast of air (I was going to say blow, but I know there's some very immature people here😂) that gets rid of any stray grass and then a light spray with W&N Matt. I think this fixes the grass a bit as well.

I use a can of compressed air to give all the bases a good blow. Then I varnish figure, base, grass and all.

Im with the majority.

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated. I think I'll just use discretion, situation by situation.

One other note I wanted to mention. One of the articles I saw about spray varnish was more specifically talking about its effects on grass TUFTS, the premade ones you peel off the backing and stick to bases. I'm wondering if commercially made grass tufts are made from something different than static grass, which makes them more susceptible to getting frosted by varnish.

Just hypothesizing.

I generally have more tuft coverage than static grass coverage on mine, so no, I don't believe there's a problem there.

I can't add much.. I use a very light matt varnish spray after everything is done and I haven't had any frosting issues.

Also… I do, ahem…. "use my breath" to make sure no static grass or basing materials are loose enough to get stuck to my figure…

I also tap the figure once complete and based to knock off anything loose before spraying/sealing it.