👍👎Vallejo Earth & Ground Texture Paste TEST & REVIEW

Sorry Canadian friends amazon.ca/ has horrible pricing for these so you are better off ordering them from .com or seeing if your local stores can get them. If you want to pick up one of each you can grab em using these amazon links (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases) EARTH TEXTURE amzn.to/2FFKXtn GROUND TEXTURE amzn.to/2FIfoiA

I use these a lot for basing my miniatures. They build up very nicely if you allow them to dry fully between layers. Plus a neat trick is to add rocks/cork/skulls/weapons/ballast to your base on top of a layer of these pastes. No need to add glue. By smashing the objects into the paste, you can get a natural look of an object being partially buried in the sand or dirt. I often just sprinkle ballast onto the wet paste in patches to give a less uniform texture to a base. Great product for minis basing.

That side-by-side comparison grid was very helpful! I wish more reviewers would do things like that.

I wanted to say Thank-you for the review. I am an HVAC service tech and have been looking for a product like this for over 20 years since Aprilaire stopped selling their version of this type of paint for their Humidifier trays. After a while, the paint in the tray where the water flows through the tray and into the Humidifier Pad wears away and the water then does not flow properly on smooth plastic. This product (Rough Grey Pumice) has the perfect amount of sand mix to allow the water to adhere to the sand to make it travel along the water trays to each water opening. This saves water by utilizing the whole Humidifier Pad and providing better humidification into the home. I estimate that I can paint approximately 10 humidifier trays with one 7 oz container.

I own the rough white pumice and the dark earth. They are great and super cheap for how much you get and between mixing the two at different ratios do very good rock and ground textures. I use them ALOT, build your rocks with cork then slap a mix over the top and in the gaps for some seriously nice texture. I bought these on the recommendation from Vince Venturella and his incredibly useful hobby cheating video playlist on miniature painting in YouTube.

As usual, great advice. I used to paint miniatures for D&D when I was younger (prob 25 years ago) and I’m relaunching the hobby. Your Channel has been great and a huge help. Thanks for all your efforts. Blackheart from Detroit

I have had several of these for years, have always highly recommended them. Use them for basing mostly, but have also tried applying them to the recesses at the base of buildings as well as mud and thick dirt on boots and tank tracks.

Thanks for the review! The black lava is my favorite for use on my bases. Really like the grittiness and bond. PVA glue and sand can peel over time and this is a good alternative.

I own the rough grey pumice, the medium that holds together the grit is transparent so you can add paint to make it any color you want.

Funny thing is, this video is about 3 years old, and I'm only now learning that the product exists. And I only found them because I was trying go find some color match to GW's Ironearth texture paints. I definitely plan to pick some up soon, and I appreciate you laying them all out side by side to see how much texture or grit there is in each, and a review of how durable they are. GW's texture paints are so expensive for what you get, so I had been using sand and glue, but you have to deal with applying the basing and then applying a sealant layer or it flakes so easily. It's good to know this is apply and paint.

Started using some of these recently and love them a lot! You get a lot for a great price, and they do the job wonderfully!

I use the mud and dust textures from Vallejo and love them from basing and adding detail to tiles and terrain.

Thank you for bringing these products to our attention. I think the terrain tutor has a caulk+grit+paint or "filler"+grit+paint recipe that may work similarly if you have not seen already.

If you need help dealing with the feeling of being bbn overwhelmed by all the free stuff, i am happy to take it off your hands. I enjoyed the video, as always.

I use earth for my wire trees i make, a few coats and it's good to go, in some cases i don't even have to paint the tree, you can score the texture to get good texture like a tree when it's almost dry, i love this stuff.

Would have liked a closer examination of how each color/texture differs from each other, but definitely answered a lot of questions about the performance of the pastes!

What an awesome review!  I appreciate the cost effective note...really helps for us terrain builders.  I've always had a great experience with Vallejo products, but haven't used the textured paste yet.  May have to go out today and get a pot.  Thanks again.

I have the brown earth texture paint. I cover it using (your recipe) black wash for large pieces and Citadel Nuln Oil for smaller pieces. It makes a really great dark mud texture. It can also be put on pretty thick as a filler with equally great results!

Since they are acryllic based, you can use water to dilute the paste to make it more maleable. You can also mix acryllic paints with the paste to acheive the exact color you want. Vallejo also has a snow-effect and mud-effect paste that are awesome. ETA: clay molding tools (at quick glance they look like dental torture tools) are useful for applying this stuff.

I had an old pot around of Earth Brown and covered a 3' x 3' board of hex tiles and it used about 3/4 of the jar. It goes a fair way!