update on ground foam for scenery

[pike-62]

A while back I posted a link to a page on my website desribing how I was making my own ground foam for my scenery. I got a lot of favorable response from people who have tried it and made their own. Earlier this week it was raining, so I decided to make foam instead of going skiing and accidently stumbled onto something. One of the batches I made was wetter than normal when I dumped it out of the blender. I did not think it would be a problem so I left it to dry along with the 4 other piles that I made. Well, after being sick with that achy, sinusy cold thing tha was going around and not able to do much but sleep for three days I was able to get back down there last night to see if the foam had dried. Well it did, the 4 normal piles were like they usually come out and the wet pile was one solid clump. I tried to break it up but I could only get it into dime sized pieces. so, I figured what the heck...see if I can run it back through the blender. Well I did and the results were stunning. the foam round up much finer and fluffier than what I have been getting. I ran all of the stuff I made earlier back through and it all came out real nice. It seems that the paint stiffens the foam up a bit and allows the cutters to chop it up finer. I did all of this dry and it only took about 30 seconds to run each batch back through on high speed.

Dan Pikulski
www.DansResinCasting.com

[Anonymous]

Fantastic! I'm in the process of building my first layout and having recently retired, I watch the pennies a little closer than I used to. Between your ground foam formula and the process of making conifers from furnace filters (in an earlier topic), I can save millions! Well, dozens maybe [;)]. Thanks much for the info!!

[ukguy]

KarlP
you may also want to check out one of my previous posts on "financially favourable" trees. here is a pic and a link.
Have fun and be safe.

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29899

Karl.

[Anonymous]

Karl,

Very nice trees indeed and I was just talking with my wife about how I'll need some deciduous and not all conifers. Now I will have to find a substitute for the berry twigs as there is nothing around here like those. Perhaps I can find something in a craft store that will work. At any rate, thanks for the info and the link. Cheers!

Karl (also spelled correctly [;)] )