Christmas Tree Setup help

[Anonymous]

I'm not an avid railroader, since I don't have the room for a layout. My son and I have been talking about setting up a 4x8 that will descend from the garage ceiling, but that is a different story...

Right now I'm trying to set up my O and my son's HO trains around a fake Christmas tree. I've got the 4x4 sheet, with the track conected (a circle with mine and a square with the HO). I sprayed it with the fake snow I got at Walmart, and it looked great for about 6 hours until the stuff dried. My son likes it, he says it looks like ice burgs melting.

How can I quickly and easily add snow to this without resorting to the nasty white plastic Walmart special stuff? And, if I do have to use the white plastic stuff, how do I glue it on?

[railfanespee4449]

I've heard of somthing called "Diamond Dust" It was used on a display layout. You can get it at craft stores.[#welcome] The HO & O reminds me of somthing lionel offered in the 60's headed by HO & O F-3s

[Anonymous]

AJ:

I once put up a HO traction layout for Christmas. For snow mounds I used
wads of cotton and for snow on the rest of the layout I sifted flower on it.

I glued the cotton wads using rubber cement, I think thats what they call it
Has a milky opague color. This will rub of when you are finishes using the layout.

When tearing down just pull off cotton and vacum off the flower.

Hank

[Jim Duda]

If you have a Hobby Lobby craft store in your area look in their train section for a plastic jar of "snow" made by Woodland Scenics. Apply some water thinned White Glue to your surface, let it tack for 5 minutes, then sprinkle on the snow. It looks pretty good...

[Buckeye Riveter]

If he had to use the white plastic stuff for snow, I would think that the spray on glues used by photographers might work without discolorization. Has anybody ever tried that? Would hair spray work just as well?

Better yet, the guys over on the Gardening RR forum have got this snow thing down to a science. Check this out:

Now that is snow!!
Note the cat sitting in the background supervising, as cats normally do.

[Jim Duda]

Buck: I can just smell the wood campfire, and the hot cider on a calm, freshly snowed winter night! Ya gotta love the Big Stuff outside! You could put a big cup of egg nog on a flat and ship it to me sitting on the other side of the layout...Yummy!

Better not serve ChiefieBoy any spiked drinks or he'd lose his way back to the house...

[ChiefEagles]

HICKUP [:D]

[Anonymous]

Now that is scale rr'ing. Clearing real snow by your locos

[ChiefEagles]

Just waiting for Buckeye to send us some pictures or video of the garden train pushing snow in Buckeye Land. [;)]

[Buckeye Riveter]

Roger's Corners, aka Buckeye Land, has not had anything but a skiff of snow. Spankybird lives in the snowbelt and I live in the tropics of Ohio.

[ChiefEagles]

Buckeye, don't tell me that. It snows all over OHIO. [;)]

[Jim Duda]

You guys have all the luck with the snow...! Since 1983, I think it has only snowed THREE TIMES in Austin...dang it! I wanna move north so I can have fun shoveling like Spanky and Our Gang gets to. All we get to do is mow the grass down here...(wink)

[spankybird]

There is nothing to say after that Jimbo.

[prewardude]

LOL! What Spanky said! [X-)]

[Buckeye Riveter]

Obviously Texans have a raw sense of humor and are somewhat buff in their work habbits.[:D]

I can wait a long time to see the grass mowing photos.