Is Crackle Paste Any Good For Wargaming Or Basing

If you mix a tiny bit of PVA glue with the paste, it sticks better and the cracks are better. I mixed around 1/4 PVA and 3/4 crackle paste.

I use crackle paste in my artwork. It’s a great medium to use! It’s awesome to use as “wood”. People think that I use real wood in my art!

Hey Luke, really liking these videos you're doing of testing out products... very useful.

It will be good to see how you expand on these. Great video again 👍

Always enjoy your "experiment" vids Luke. Cheers.

thanks for the vid! 2 years late but this video really helped me get into cracked bases. I even grabbed the same product so looking forward to doing some further experiments

I am partial to texture in me crack.

I'm really glad I found this video, I recently purchased some of the Golden Crackle Paste and was underwhelmed with the results. Your experiment has inspired me to give it another shot.

Good to see experimenting with traditional art supplies. I've been using the same stuff for a while and it definitely takes some practice and patience to get right.

Is great to see videos of experts using Golden pastes, my local paint store has a shitload of them and all the info I find in the internet is about canvas painting.

Thanks for the show case of crackle paste mate, enjoyed it ^_^. Never actually used crackle paste myself.

Another great video! Well done, and very informative! Thanks Luke!!

Great video and shows just how important experimentation is. I use the GW Mordant Earth for my bases and found that on a warm day in my conservatory the cracks were so better. I now ardcoat the surface underneath and leave the bases somewhere warm and have never looked back.

Seeing the different tests next to eachother is so helpful. I'm trying to get a ceramic look on a big piece and I want to hit the sweet spot of small enough cracks that they read as a crazed glaze over white ceramic but large enough that they are actually visible.

Great video, useful little test👍🏻

I recently purchased this product 2 weeks ago myself and did some testing. My take away - 1 the base needs to be solid, if the product is on something with give, it causes it to curl, curl means less cracks. 2 the product over a larger area has a large variance of cracks, meaning some areas will have small cracks some small and with different designs. even on that same base. 3 another way to get bigger cracks is 2 coats, the first coat dries for 30 minutes to an hour and then a second coat is applied, this makes bigger cracks. 4 acrylic paint can be used as it is said on the bottle. I used ten percent brown paint and it wasnt nearly as paled as lukes did. It did still get paler but our results were almost the same. It led to fewer larger cracks in general. 5 my biggest personal take away was to apply the product with a pallette knife (especially if no ink or paint was added) the product is quite self adhesive so brushes, finger, etc tended to make sharp, uneven, and apparent patterns. ie the product doesnt flow at all, it will stay in place almost like a clay, normally I want it flat, a pallette knife made it much easier to do (because metal and the angle).

Thanks for the quality explanation and video

Cracking video, cheers Luke.

Hey Luke, you need to score the base, add some PVA and that should work and it'll grab the base better.

The fact that this channel only has 108,000 subs is a crime. You've made more helpful content for basing and building on a budget than nearly anybody, and I for one appreciate it. <3