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My snow isnt working
Posted by Awasoda on Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:54 PM
I made this post a while ago in the diorama forum but they said the armor one may know more.

I am making a winter base for my diorama. I used plaster of paris for the groundwork. While it was still wet i sprinkeled dirt onto it. Once that was dry i painted a 50/50 mix of white glue and water over the base and sprinkeled woodland senics on. This did not stick. What am i doing wrong. I am looking for a heavy snow with little ground showing through.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:58 PM
Ok, so the woodland seenics snow didn't stick? It or did and it still has the ground showing through? What happened, in detail? It probably would have been better to have a flat surface to glue the snow on intead of dried on dirt, that might be it.
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Posted by Awasoda on Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:59 PM
I'll have to try it
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:10 PM
BINDEX my man BINDEX!
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18630
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:16 PM
Hey ausf. Have you become a Bindex freak. Big Smile [:D]Big Smile [:D] I thought you didn't use anything toxic but it sounds like this stuff is attacking your brain. Wink [;)]Laugh [(-D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:29 PM
Need to get some of that...
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:31 PM
Sign - Ditto [#ditto] The way he talks about it, and the way that mud looks on his tiger, I'll just have to try it.
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Posted by shermanfreak on Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:07 PM
You have to work in on in small layers Awasoda. After the first layer is set, add more glue and sprinkle more snow on. And continue in that way until you get the thickness you want.
Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:09 PM
I think I'm going to open a Bindex dealership. Make a killing off you muddy armor dudes.
Wait until you see my Zimmerit solution.
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Posted by Awasoda on Friday, April 16, 2004 2:56 PM
Oh, ok. I would put it on all at once, then i would get these pockets of snow under a film of it and it would pour out, it should work now.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 16, 2004 4:14 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by ausf
Wait until you see my Zimmerit solution.

I'm still stuck with squadron putty and tam extra thin cement!Grumpy [|(] Ahh, well looks good I think...
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 16, 2004 9:11 PM
i had a similar problem when i tried to do snow as well. what i found is that i had to seal the snow by spraying on flat coat. i didint need deep snow on my project but it seemed to work ok for me. hope that helps you out a bit
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Posted by Awasoda on Saturday, April 17, 2004 10:09 AM
THats funny cause I just came to that conclusion liek a minute before I read your post, Great minds think alike!
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Posted by Awasoda on Saturday, April 17, 2004 2:56 PM
A new problem has occured.
The plaster of paris seperated from the wood. This was because the wood warped and the plaster pooped off. The would was stianed so it was sealed. I think i fixed it by placing calk in the cracks.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 19, 2004 1:01 AM
I built a winter scene once involving a PzIV crashing thru some trees with some infantry support. I used light weight spackling compound from the local HD and it went on very nicely and looked very realistic to me. Other than the fact that I had to try and ship the thing across the country (missing some heads and small pieces) the diorama is still in fairly good shape. I could email photos if you like so you can see the effect I achieved. I'd post em but I don't know how. Email truprman@hotmail.com with diorama snow in the subject line if you are interested.
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Posted by TigerII on Friday, June 18, 2004 1:08 AM
I made this diorama with snow. I made the dirt base then sprinkled Micro Balloons over a white glue and water mix. Check it out on this link.

http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=466&img=DSC00023.JPG

Tiger II
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 2:30 AM
For snow ive found that baking soda / bi carb soda sprinkled over glue works really well. Gives much the same reflective qualitites as real snow. It mounds up well and can look good on vehicles... just have to build it up layer by layer
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 6:44 AM
Sign - Ditto [#ditto]with Burnttoast baking or bicarb soda looks good use thined out white glue this does the trick.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 7:09 AM
Nice job TigerII. Thanks for the pic.
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