Textures revisited

Following on from a conversation on the fine scale modeller forum, I was ordered a tub of the vallejo grey sand texture. It looks like good stuff but at £8 a pop I couldn't use it on the scale of things I'm building at the moment. So ... I tried to recreate a similar thing myself and made a video of it.
I hope you like it, I'll be using the stuff myself on a build soon.

In the spirit of completion and fairness I should say that the Vallejo earth texture was fully dry by the next morning and gave a really nice finish. It's a bit spongy when fully dry but otherwise the texture (see below) if very good.

The final recipe was:
20g plaster of paris
10g water
15 - 35g of fine sand
2.5ml of pva glue

That said, as long as you have enough water to get the plaster going I suspect most mixes will work.

All of the plaster-based mixes dried within about 45 minutes, even the last one which had a lot more pva in it. I took some close-up pictures (below) so you can see the difference between them. Personally I think I could find a use for all of these depending on what I was trying to make and at what scale - and it was some geeky fun getting it done too - always a good thing.