Hello again, this is Eduard reviewing some stuff for you!

I just purchased two Green Stuff World rolling pins, and I’d like to share my experience to with you.

Textured rolling pins are capable of impressing a continuous repeat pattern on clay and putties.

The product references I’ll be reviewing are 1301 Pavement and 1376 Small bricks. Both are suitable to for scales
ranging from 1/35 to 1/56 (28mm). I find myself between the 1/48 and 1/56 historical realm.

The media support material? I used to engrave the texture was a cheap and widely available modelling clay. Its
properties are good enough for me. Once dried, it doesn’t break as easily as (a) regular clay, but at the say time it still
can still be cut, engraved and sanded as you like. 1Kg of this product will allow you to reproduce about a 1,5 meter
long, 10cm wide, 3mm high, piece. Of course, you’ll most probably don’t not want to cast such a long piece (unless
you’re building a huge diorama, but if so, you should use a permanent firm base under such a long piece of clay).

Take it as a reference.
In the following picture we can see my light box. Inside it, I’ve made a display that will show (unclear, rephrase) in
the local shop where I got the rolling pins, kekolandia miniatures. On the left side, we can see both rolling pins very
close to the sample clay pieces which I left unpainted on purpose. On the right side, there is a bigger and painted
piece of clay pieces (unclear, do you mean a bigger piece of painted clay?). In both samples, as a soil I used the
pavement rolling pin, and as a wall the small bricks rolling pin. On the painted sample I texturized the wall roof wall
with the help of a scalpel, to simulate the top bricks. This was done after the clay dried (two days later).

Both parts of the sample were glued with superglue, with excellent results once the three layers of glue dried.
As you can see the final result is very realistic, and the detail engraved by the rolling pins is superb and in scale. I
used some vegetation to simulate an abandoned street somewhere in the countryside. The poster was taken from
internet and printed in a laser printer, using a high density paper. The box is made of ceramic and the oil barrel
belongs to a Tamiya 1/48 vehicle set (Tamiya 32502 - Kettenkrad with Goliath Infantry Cart).

The painting was done straight into the grey clay by using two Vallejo inks: 73.202 Pale Grey and 76.505 Light Rust.
Then I immediately I put a layer of cheap varnish (a house cleaning wax named Future) to allow the incoming
following/ensuing wash phase to take place. I needed three layers of Future to turn the so much extremely/highly
porous surface into an impermeable media. For washing I used darker tones: colder for the pavement (AK 070 Brown
Blue) and warmer for the wall (AK 066 DAK vehicles). Then I used a very dark wash (AK 045 Dark Brown for the green
vehicles) in a random way to represent areas with a deeper shallowness (paradox, rephrase/ do you mean shadow-
light contrast?).

Once dried, some drybrush was applied and finally, on the floor I applied both AK 015 Dust effects and 022 Africa
dust effects without further solvent, since they work very well as ‘liquid pigments’ once dried.
Finally As a final step, I used the painted samples like a vignette to see how the models of different scales look like.
On In the first example, a 1/43 die cast tractor, looks spot on.
Then (You can number the examples: as a second example) A 1/48 Tamiya US Jeep also looks also formidable on the
scene.
Also (next) a Tamiya 1/48 German side car looks very natural riding the poorly preserved street.
Finally, some 1/56 (28mm) miniatures were thrown in. While they still look acceptable in terms of scale, I wouldn’t
push any harder and go lower on the scale.
There are more uses for the rolling pins other than straight and wide pieces.

I made four samples of the standard small squared Warhammer base. While hard to see in the picture, that clay
pieces are stuck over the black plastic bases.

Alternatively, if you have small children and want to have an excuse to cast some textures, the Playmobil / Lego
world will also benefit from the experience.

Having checked the positive utility of both rolling pins, now I’m eager to try 1374 Small Cobblestone, since I think it is
also in the scale of these two rolling pins. Other rolling pin references such as Wood Planks or Dutch bricks, while
promising, they look far over scaled for the 28mm enthusiastic. The rest of the rolling pins are not in my interest (do
not interest me/are not of interest to me) for they are futuristic/fantastic/epic oriented.

This is a good product, reusable, everlasting and with multiple uses (simply to avoid repetition: applications). Highly
recommended!

Awesome review. I only made a few suggestions.