Static Grass Applicator - How to get your model grass to stand up or create your own grass tufts!

[@ThePhilphast]

My daughter gave me this exact model for my birthday and I was using it just a few days ago. Great results, but I accidentally brushed the side of my hand on the grid when cleaning up. Truly thought my heart was going to stop when it discharged through me, especially considering I've already had two serious cardiac surgeries :D .

[@FrancisTheMantis]

This just happened to me💀had to put it down a moment and think

[@markblue777]

If you clips a metal pin (panel nail or something similar) in the crocodile clip you can apply the grass by not having the clip clipped onto the base. You will need to do this when covering larger areas anyway as the earthing point should not be to far away from the applicator or else it will not work correctly.

[@zaneholmes3679]

Thank you was looking for this info🙌

[@thefinalme]

Thank you! Discharging it freaked me out so badly I thought I must have done it wrong. But no. It’s just terrifying every time.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

So glad it’s not just me jumping out their skin :-D love this device though, still using it years later and never do grass without it!

[@chuckwillis9271]

Great explanation of a step-by step use of this tool. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. Cheers!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Thank you for taking the time to comment!

[@jsarkozy]

Fantastic video, thank you very much for the tips. I have that exact same applicator and that shock scared the crap out of me when it first happened!!!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Glad it’s not just me! :D

[@quinnfabgay8377]

thank you for this video! i bought this exact applicator and was a bit confused on how to turn it off so i didnt electrocute myself, this helped alot!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Hope you have fun with your static grass. Still using mine years later, it’s great. Still makes me jump every time I remove the charge though :D

[@diverspudph1310]

This was helpful, thanks! I think I got exactly the same applicator, but have yet to use it :)

[@WatchItPaintIt]

It’s all I use now when using static grass. And years later I’m still scared of the *crack* :-D

[@ShelfClutter]

Really cool! Never knew this existed! Thanks for the vid

[@ryankubryn763]

The best how to video I've seen!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Glad to help! Even if I was scared by the little bangs all the way through :-D

[@T2Aron]

Thanks for the video. Btw, the bright/fake grass works very well for Blood Bowl.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Great tip! Makes me want to paint some blood bowl!!

[@dantebzs]

I got one from china... Looked for grass flocking on yt to know If I'm doing It correctly and this is a vídeo with the exact one I bought.

[@djelar6751]

What kind of grass did you used it ?? I had tried to make static grass using hemp rope and the applicator DIY from mosquito killer and it cant stand like that 😢

[@WardudeProxies]

Now, you need to 3d print a guy in a polo shirt mowing grass for the bright grass base. Lol

[@davidorf3921]

you can do something slightly different, get a metal tray (a sheet of foil might work, put several small bases on top of the foil/tray and connect the foil/tray to the crocodile clip, for tufts do the same as above but use baking paper of even better a silicon sheet

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Great tips! Thanjs

[@karenwoolley4279]

Not available at the link, but I found one on ebay with the same design, most likely a knock off, but when can you do when the original is not available? I like static grass, but not $300 or whatever applicators cost for those doing the train stuff, but under $50USD, sure, why not elevate my tuff game!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Ah! I did this tutorial a while ago, and I guess they sold out since, I updated the link to another one, thanks for the heads up! Yeah I agree with you, for $20/25 its a fun tool and it dramatically increases my bases IMHO.

[@gsw0882]

"...and it scared me again." HAHAHAHA Love it.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

:-D :-D it’s such a loud crack :-D

[@gsw0882]

@@WatchItPaintIt LOL Not passing judgment - I've blown myself across the room with 120vac. The truly painful part is having to go spend $30 on a new set of side cutters afterward...

[@김지훈-k4j4w]

Does static electricity work even though the material of the floor object is not conductive?

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Great question! I would think so!

[@CraftyDogMinis.]

i got this exact one, does the wire have to touch the mesh for it to work? mine isnt touching and im worried about making it touch for if it implodes or somehing idk xDD

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Haha. Yeah it has to touch the mesh. Mine didn’t once and it didn’t work! Bent the wire back onto the mesh and away we went :)

[@mrthomasyip]

Since it should be touching so I actually connect the wire onto the mesh directly so that no matter what it will still touch.

[@Eric-ff7mu]

I’m like a moth to flame when I see that zap

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Haha! Don’t do it mannnnn

[@Eric-ff7mu]

@@WatchItPaintIt lol after seeing the zap myself and showing my brother, it’s louder than I expected. I think I’m gonna take your advise

[@ShroomClay]

Can the base be any meterial?

[@TheLuchito101]

i have this problem in which either im too far and it doesnt pick up the grass or im too close and it makes big strings of grass coming from the glue to the aplicator and it kind of ruins the proces, any ideas on how to fix this?

[@dragonfist]

have you tried it without turning on (to check if still works)

[@WatchItPaintIt]

I have not! I imagine it wouldn’t though :D

[@felicitygibbs8923]

Great tutorial thanks !! 😊

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dollperganger6643]

Awesome! thanks for sharing :D

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@karenwoolley4279]

6:53 Do you think some sort of temporary addon attached to the underside would work? I'm still not sure how this works since the base is not conductive by my understanding, but maybe it makes some sort of electromagnetic field and the grass coming precharged through the grill makes a difference. So like white glue a piece of plastic on the bottom to hold the negative alligator clamp.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Oh yeah, I think you're right, just superglue a little bit of plastic to the bottom, or even a paper clip etc and snap it off after applying the grass! That's if you want full coverage, I guess in an ideal world you want varience so probably do it sometimes, and add rocks other times.

[@karenwoolley4279]

@@WatchItPaintIt Nice thing of course is you can add the rocks to begin with as opposed to adding a rock to hide a flaw, but good to hear it would most likely do the trick.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Yeah another valid point! Would make it look like the rock is sunk into the grass that way too! 10/10 please comment again :-)

[@Goldchucker1]

One would think that your applicator would be loaded with the batteries and grass before you applied the glue. Just saying. Thank you for taking the time to produce this video.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Glue takes ages to dry :-D but your are right. Good tip! :-)

[@AdmirLicm3]

Thank you

[@BigSte_]

Has anyone used one on large wooden surfaces? Such as dioramas? I'm making a blood bowl pitch and I wanted the grass texture

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Yes! It works but it uses a lot of grass :-D worth it!

[@BigSte_]

@@WatchItPaintIt brilliant thanks! What glue would you recommend?

[@jeremyfrost3127]

Great video! where do you get those flower tufts?

[@robpaintsminiatures]

That is so cool.

[@LEF3133]

Was thinking you could cut a donut out of cardboard to reduce the size of the application zone.

[@g90192]

Cool

[@Aquilifer321]

Obviously the one I ordered from Amazon doesn't work.The light turns green, but the grass doesn't fall straight.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Noooooo! How does it fall!? Mine just falls down with gravity but is pointing up from the charge

[@Aquilifer321]

@@WatchItPaintIt Maybe I managed to solve the problem, I used a piece of wire and attached it to the ground wire with the clamp. The grass seems to be falling well now, I even got an electric shock to see if the current was circulating

[@darkstorminc]

Cheaper to make your own. Plenty of videos on how to do it dirt cheap lol

[@WatchItPaintIt]

True. But a lot of things are cheaper to do yourself but quicker to spend money! With this being 20 bucks, I’d rather save a few hours of my life to spend painting one miniature :-D

[@arzer114]

The bright green is probably great for fake grass like football fields, golf greens etc.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

You’re right, I use it on Bloodbowl models now :-)

[@Sh4ggyd00]

Wow its already listing as sold out on Amazon.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Maybe it had sold out before :-( I made this video a while ago! I've updated the link to one that is in stock, thanks for the headsup!

[@LifeLesson-y8y]

Is that a mosquito killer?

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Same idea I think!!

[@exionpt6367]

Got one, worked once, now it does not work, what a piece of trash.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Has the wire come away from the mesh slightly? Mine did that once. I just had to bend the wire. The bare wire needs to touch the metal mesh for it to work

[@exionpt6367]

@@WatchItPaintIt Most likely i got one that wasn't checked by the quality crew, i opened it, the coil thing is burned, it heats there and heat spreads to the circuit plaque when button is pressed, it smells burned when it heats, i suspect that's what happened after the first use, it only gives led light now with no static current at all. Maybe i got bad luck and got a faulty part that heated and burned. Was cheap at least...

[@exionpt6367]

Is it possible that i burned it myself by discharging it? I noticed that for every discharge i did it started to loose power till it died, i did around 500 tufts with it and did about 10 discharges, i suspect that to discharge, the mesh should not be touching the red wire, or it will short circuit it. I think. Maybe. Have you notice it? First use it had a lot power pulling the grass up and even made a sound, and then, it start to loose the static power till went dead. IDK, maybe was just mine in a case of bad parts.