The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

What the flock?

So I figured out an absolutely brilliant solution to my smoke dilemma, courtesy of the tutorial on this nice blog. Essentially, one takes bushy flocking material and glues it to the flight stem, and after repeated glue applications it resembles a fantastic smoke trail.

The flock was applied with cyanoacrylate superglue at first, giving me what resembled large bushes trailing behind my Stormboyz.

After two coats of watered-down Elmer's glue, they start looking less like flying shrubbery and more like smoke:

The trails are firm, but a coat or two more of the glue might be necessary before I'm entirely comfortable drybrushing it. I may actually try and find some thinner cyanoacrylate glue so I don't spend all of tomorrow sitting around waiting for this stuff to dry up. I think it's a vast improvement over my earlier wool or cotton options, though, as it has a much nicer texture to it.