making snow

Stay away from food items. You will get a bunch of replies telling you to use stuff like flour, baking powder/soda, sweatener, etc. These items will look good in the short term, but over time can yellow and breakdown, or be eaten by bugs.

Best product I have found is Woodlands Scenics Snow. It is made from what is called Micro Balloons. They are tiny balls of styrene plastic. Simply apply pump hairspray to the area you want it to be, then sprinkle it on. For thicker areas, continue applications till you have what you want. A big jar of it only goes for about $8 and will provide many a blizzard. Here is how it comes out.




Spend the few extra bucks and get the better quality product and it will last much longer.
A bottle is enough for a few blizzards as well.

you could try baking soda its cheap and easy to work with

Have a browse in the archives under this section. This has many topics related to it and much depends on exactly what efect you are trying to replicate.
Good luck, Pete.

I used Verlinden snow in my last vignette.. it was beautiful, it whisped like snow in the wind... and in the bag it moved around like real snow would.. I'm not sure about the woodland scenic stuff, but from past experience, I wouldn't use Baking soda.. it yellows over time since it absorbs the odours and such in the air... not a good choice.

I just tried plasta and baking powder. first speard out the plasta while it is still wet sprinkle the baking powder on to it and let it dry.It come out realy good and stays there to it looks like hard snow with a freash dusting on top looks realy good.

My snow diorama has a consistancy of baking powder, i mustive completed the diorama 6 months ago, and it still looks good as new, no breakage, color change or anything. this is my proposal for snow.
-ERAD


I happen to get my idea from this fellow, good tip:
http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/other/create_snow_cheehongahn.html

Check out my dio. I used Noch scenic snow very lightly to give the impression of icy ground. This stuff looks great when used thickly.

http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=47019