Rolling Pins for Model Making

At Green Stuff World we offer innovative tools and products for modeling enthusiasts. Among our star products are the rolling pins, ideal for creating surfaces with a detailed and realistic pattern on your bases and dioramas. We have designs for all types of floors and walls, such as tiles, cobblestones, embossed plates, fantastic scenery, bricks of various sizes, stones, etc.

Textured rolling pins are hand tools designed to create these patterns on a moldable material such as epoxy putty or polymer clay. They contain engravings all around the surface and simply roll them over the chosen material to engrave it.

How to use Green Stuff World rolling pins?

They are very easy and quick to use, even for those who are just starting out in the world of modeling. Here are the basic steps to get the most out of these tools:

1. Prepare the material. Make sure the material you are going to work with (clay, putty, etc.) is well kneaded and on a flat surface. If necessary, moisten or apply sculptor vaseline to the roller or material to prevent it from sticking.
2. Apply the roller. Place the roller on the surface of the material and roll it with even pressure. In this way, the pattern will be printed clearly and without deformations.
3. Finishing. Once you have the texture engraved, let the material dry or cure. You can then add details or paint it to give it the final finish and complete its realistic look.

Advantages of using it in your miniature projects

Artists use these types of tools for the benefits and advantages they offer in their projects, among the most important are:

• Ease and speed of use. One of the biggest benefits is that they allow you to create detailed surfaces quickly and easily. Instead of spending hours molding textures by hand, just apply the roller to the appropriate surface of the project. It will be ready in a matter of seconds.
• Variety of designs. At Green Stuff World we offer a wide variety of these tools with different patterns, from the simplest ones like rectangular bricks to the most complex ones with mystical runes and the like, to make it easier to work on different projects and have endless creative possibilities.
• Versatility of materials. With these items, you can work in a wide range of materials, which makes them ideal for many types of projects, whether you are working with green putty, modeling paste, polymer clay, or even pastry dough.
• Professional results. A textured roller is an indispensable tool for adding a professional touch to any surface, achieving finishes that would be difficult to achieve by hand.

Rolling pins are made of durable materials, which guarantees their resistance and long life. In addition, we have complements for them such as petroleum jelly for sculpting, a rolling pin display to organize and expose them, silicone guide rings for ease of use, or scratch brush pens to speed up cleaning.

Uses of Rolling Pins

Textured rollers are very useful for setting the context of a miniature, a model or a diorama. They help to quickly and easily texturize imitations of floors, walls, metals, bricks, fantasy worlds, etc. Although there are many to choose from in our catalog, the most popular textures are usually:

• Arcane. It will draw on putty surfaces runes, circles, and other typical elements of the arcane style to ornament your project in the context of runic magic.
• Cobblestones. This is one of the classic patterns because of its versatility, as it is not only used to create the floors of many, many situations but also simulates brick walls and the like.
• Stone. Like cobblestones, it is possible to use this pattern for both floors and walls, a very common element in miniatures and dioramas.
• Diamond plate. It is a common stamping to make realistic metal plates.
• Templar Abbey. There are many settings set in the Templar era, to facilitate the detailed decoration of a temple or its simulation, you can use this roller that will mark your putty with Templar crosses and mosaics of the time.
• ELVEN. Elvish fantasy scenarios will be more realistic with this roller, which will fill them with drawings related to this world and letters of the Elvish alphabet.
• Grids. Perfect for imitating fences or metallic meshes, whether placed on the floor or walls.
• Aztec. It is the best option when you want to give a realistic look to your project set in an Aztec context.
• Egyptian. Fill your work with hieroglyphics and typical Egyptian decorations just by rolling this roller over the putty.
• Greek. Set your creations in ancient Greece with this roller from Green Stuff World, which will give you the best prints of the ancient emperors and the most realistic mosaics.
• Frozen/dry earth. This pattern can represent either a frozen ground or the dry land of the desert without sand, depending on how it is painted. That is why it can be used in different contexts.
• Wooden planks. Another of the most used patterns is those that represent wooden planks since this material is not only placed on floors, walls, and ceilings but there are many objects made of wood.

Where to buy rolling pins for models?

Textured rollers are not only used in the field of model making, but are also very common when decorating walls and ceilings, or making certain recipes in baking. That is why the offer of this product is very wide and you should not get confused when buying them. To buy rolling pins for a base, diorama, or model, go to specialized stores.

One of the stores with the largest variety of textured rollers is Green Stuff World. We have more than 60 references with different patterns so you can customize any of your projects, whatever the theme. You can buy the rolling pins both on our website and in any of the reseller stores of our products. In addition, we also have an online store on eBay and ETSY.