little grande man wrote:Plaster cloth is very expensive at $8.99 per roll, so my dad and I tried another method, paper towels doubled and dipped in a very thin plaster mixture. It works well, lookes just as plaster cloth, and is cheap.
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Even cheaper than paper towels is old newspapers torn into strips.
Dustin wrote: loathar wrote:A better substitute for paper towels are those drier fabric softener sheets. They don't get all soggy and rip like paper towels do.Before or after use?
loathar wrote:A better substitute for paper towels are those drier fabric softener sheets. They don't get all soggy and rip like paper towels do.
Before or after use?
Depends on whether or not you want your mountain to smell like a fresh Spring meadow.
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Industrial-grade paper towels dipped in Hydrocal over balled-up newspaper was the original Linn Westcott formula for hard-shell scenery. I first used the technique in 1965.
Will I use it today? The jury is still out, but leaning toward something I can stick wires (and plastic tree trunks) into without using a drill.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
This is the way I've been doing it for over 35 years! We never had premade plaster cloth like Woodland Scenics currently markets and I'm glad we didn't. Although convenient it is waaaay more costly than using paper towels dipped in plaster. I've also used papier mache in the past with good results.
I was originally going to layer blue shop towels dipped in hydrocal directly over the extruded polystyrene scenery.
If it works then I will glue some black plastic screen to the flat and contoured extruded polystyrene.
The plastic screen will then be covered with blue shop towels dipped in hydrocal.
I hope that works.
Andrew
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