I gather that somebody just went into the high ultra-violet on the frustration meter...
FWIW, how many of my fellow Spanish-American Citizens (must be Spanish-American, being addressed as Senor) remember the wood-and-card kits that came with a little tin tube containing about two drops of acetate cement?
Moral of the story? Use the adhesive that's best for the job, not whatever the kit supplier put in the box.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
So tell us what you Really think of it.
Wet latex paint is the best scenic cement I've ever used. Spread it on, sprinkle the scenery, let dry. May need a touch of a 50/50 glue mixture (don't forget the drop or two of dish soap) afterwards. I also usually use an eye-dropper on the flat areas. Keeps from getting the glue on everything around.
I have a little bottle of it somewhere. As soon as I realized it's just white glue and water, I went back to, well, white glue and water.
EDIT: Thanks for the title change.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
DeadheadGreg wrote: ... Scenic Cement. By Woodland Scenics. Geez..... no wonder there aren't as many people taking up this hobby as there should be. This stuff comes in all of their starter scenery kits, and is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE.
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Scenic Cement. By Woodland Scenics. Geez..... no wonder there aren't as many people taking up this hobby as there should be. This stuff comes in all of their starter scenery kits, and is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE.
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Okay. First off, what I got was their scenery starter kit thing that covers like a 2 square foot area. Okay. They give you a bottle of Scenic Cement. Then they give you a spray nozzle. Except the nozzle doesn't fit the bottle!!! whoaaahhh thats a smart one.
blah. I guess I deserve what I got for painting my base, letting it dry, and THEN applying ground cover. But regardless, Scenic Cement sucks. The stuff doesn't "spray". It shoots gobs that clumps up your Fine Turf to make it look like Coarse Turf.
Is there ANY other way of easily securing the initial layer of ground cover, other than sprinkling it on when the paint is wet? In a desperate attempt at salvaging my work, I ran upstairs and got my Ballast Kit (70% isopropyl, and my 50/50 glue water mix) and frantically soaked the turf and dropped glue on it. I am now out of both. Thankfully i don't have any more ballasting to do.
i think I now know why my first layout as a kid never got past the initial attempts at scenery...