Informal poll - what's your favorite off-the-shelf ground goop?

[Bennekers]

Spackle works great for making roads. You can always smooth it with a wet spunge. Also used it for for Faller cars that use a wire embedded in the road.

 

[dehusman]

Don't use  a "ground goop".  Use newspaper dipped in plaster to build a hardshel over cardboard strips or foam blocks and then apply ground foam over that.

Dave H.

You don't put another layer over the plaster soaked paper?.

Not usually.  Maybe a thin layer of plaster.  But that's not "ground goop" from my understanding of the term.  "Ground goop" is a mix of texturing materials in some sort of binder that creates a texture to the surface.

Don't use that.  Plaster.  Latex paint.  Ground foam or dirt/ballast materials.

Dave H.

[larak]

Structolyte.

 

[spidge]

Don't use  a "ground goop".  Use newspaper dipped in plaster to build a hardshel over cardboard strips or foam blocks and then apply ground foam over that.

Dave H.

You don't put another layer over the plaster soaked paper?

The reason some of us do is that it puts a thicker(stronger) layer for ease of planting trees and working the scenery to better fit the scene, such as around structures, bridges, roads, and oh ya trackwork. All this was brought to my attention by a suggestion from Joe Fugate.

[ARTHILL]

Pre mixed drywall mud, sawdust, acrylic paint(tube or house) and a little Lysol.

[jeffers_mz]

[loathar]

Plaster o paris, covered in some places with Sculptimold where I want texture.

[dehusman]

Don't use  a "ground goop".  Use newspaper dipped in plaster to build a hardshel over cardboard strips or foam blocks and then apply ground foam over that.

Dave H.

[nbrodar]

I like pre-mixed drywall mud for big jobs.  And non-shrink acrylic spackle for small ones.

Nick

[spidge]

I used smoothset and added vermeculite(not the fine stuff) and cheap house paint for color. See my WWW below my sig for the results. I have yet to glue down any grass or ground cover as I will get real dirt from the area I am modeling. I went ahead and used the rough vrmeculite as I hope to get some fine stuff to add a second layer, but the first actually came out respectable.

[MisterBeasley]

I love Gypsolite.  It gives me a great gritty texture.  I mix in some brown acrylic so it looks like light dirt, then I hit it with green washes.

[nucat78]

I had a can of unsanded grout left over that I've mixed beach sand and acrylic paint into.  It's worked ok so far but it's not exactly off-the-shelf.

Spackle?

Drywall compound?

Soupy plaster?