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modeling ice or ice painting

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modeling ice or ice painting
Posted by director on Saturday, January 5, 2008 8:03 AM
Please help--I have constructed my first mountain and I am ready to paint it--One of the sides is very rugged and will be snow and ice covered.  If you can imagine ice climbers on a side of a mountain or hill--that's what I wish to depict.  I have searched veerywhere to find out how to paint realsitic ice.  I am sure I will experiment with various colors but I thought someone might have good experience making realistic ice or painting foamboard/styrafoam to look like ice--Can you make some suggestions--thank you, Tom Bergquist
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Posted by ndbprr on Saturday, January 5, 2008 9:02 AM
Experiment with some clear silicon caulk.  In the past I have seen pictures in MR of frozen waterfalls made with this stuff and they looked very realistic.  By experiment I mean try putting doen some different colors and then put a bead of caluk over them to see which looks best. 
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Posted by pcarrell on Saturday, January 5, 2008 9:26 AM

Ice can come in many colors, including clear.  You'll need to determine if your ice has color and what that color palette is, then you can start making ice.

There are several ways I know of to make ice. 

Clear caulk has already been suggested, and that works well. 

Woodland Scenics makes a product called water effects that can be spread out kinda stringy like over wax paper (So you can easily peel it off after it dries) and allowed to dry to make icicles.  Most will not be the correct shape, but you get better with practice.  The trick is to do it kind of like dry brushing and keep the brush moving in only one direction.  The brush gets ruined, so don't use a good one.  I think it's tintable with paint.

I found the the woodland scenics stuff was kind of expensive for the waste you get, so I did the same thing with clear 5 minute epoxy.  It's cheaper, more readily available, and it dries enough to add it to the layout in about 5 minutes.  I've just started experimenting with it, but it looks good so far.  I haven't tried tinting it with paint, but I'm sure you can.

 

Philip
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Posted by director on Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:21 PM
thank you very much
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Posted by director on Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:22 PM
thanks so much--i will experiment--that's what modeling is all about

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