Making snow

[nitroboy]

I need some ideas for making snow for my Christams layout. I would like it to be more life-like than batting or things like that. No luck with the dying sawdust, too muddy looking. My wife suggested salt, but I think it would clump when glue is applied. Any ideas are welcome.

[spankybird]

HI Dave,

Woodland Secnes makes a Snow Powder. I first paint the ground with white paint and then while the paint is still wet, add the Snow Powder.

tom

[Anonymous]

Check out Woodland Scenics. They make snow in a plastic shaker container. Product no. SN140.

[cmrj]

Dave along with the powered snow add some snow glitter it's a craft product. Christmas layout's need a little sparkle to add to the magic of the season.

[Anonymous]

well just get some snow when it is snowing

[FJ and G]

my snow scene is made out of a unique material that as far as I know, no one has ever before used, simply because it is not the "traditional" way to do it

joint compound is what I use, esp. for distant scenes where the individual snowflakes would not be detected, or the texture.

If you mix some black in the joint compound, you can even model some dirty city snow. I've NEVER seen this done before; but it's prototype.

Here's snow on distant peak on my layout using joint compound






But, I understand that marble dust is tops!

cmrj;

snow glitter can be obtained in tubes from Michaels; it's really VERY impressive when sprinkled on whatever snow material you're making

[Roger Bielen]

Try looking in the Scenic Express catalogue, they seem to have about everything. If all else fails ask the Yankee contingent, they always seem to have more than enough.

[underworld]

Water vapor from an ultrasonic vaporizer and a really cold room! Or, what we do at work for fun sometimes is we take a CO2 tank that we have for cleaning the coils on a refrigeration unit.....turn it upside down and let out a blast. It freezes moisture in it's path and it looks like it's snowing.....doesn't last long though! [:p] Actually Woodland Scenics does make some nice snow. [:)]

underworld

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[Anonymous]

A customer I was building a layout for wanted a snowy montain area that was about 12' by 5' in area. After getting the basic mountain shapes finished with Woodland Scenic plaster cloth, and coloring the areas that were going to be vertical rock faces I covered a large area of the mountain with snow. Regular plaster of paris was built up into a heavy layer of "frosting" that povided a base of snow. A little blue was airbrushed in selected areas to creat shadows. At that point a layer of white glue was spread over the dry plaster of paris with large quatities of baking powder sprinkled into the wet glue. After this dried, a light misting of Woodland Scenics glue was sprayed onto the "snow"
The final effect was to sprinkle liberal amount of irredescent glitter on top of the snow. I found this in a Michael's craft store. It really bring the snow to life. Finally, a ton of snow covered pines were planted. I finished this area about 3 years ago, and it still looks like the "snow" fell last night.

[Anonymous]

Dry white plaster on white glue or paint works great. You can always ask the Chief to send you some[:-,]. Regards Steve