I hope everyone is not feed up with all my questions, I am preparing my layout, and I'm buying all the needed materials. Does anyone know how the snow effect was done on Lyn's St- Laurent winter layout, see link below. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/keiththompson/abn And thanks everyone for all you responses and help. Thanks, Ben
Ben, Lyn does some of the best snow I have ever seen in any scale. We actually are running a photo of the winter portion of his layout on the cover of the next issue of Ztrack. He explained to me last year how he does the snow. For the life of me, I can't remember the material he used. I know a flour sifter was involved. The layout in the image was sold to Hans Riddervold, onwer of American Z Line. The layout now resides in Norway. I will ask arround and see if anyone remembers. Rob Kluz
Ben, I have the article from Model Railroader at home and I think he describes how he did it. I'll get back to ya.
Found it! He first sifted dry powdered casting plaster over the hills that were pre-coated with Scenic Cement, then sprayed a very fine mist of water over it. He did the same for the tree's and such. Pretty simple actually!
Wow! You guys have great contacts. The process makes a lot of sense. Plaster of Paris is probably the whitest. I will use it. In my search I mystically identify Thorsten Loth's with Lyn's layout. Any ideas what could generate this sparkling effects on Thorsten Loth's layout? http://alaskarails.org/modeling/Z-pix/Pic00024.jpg Thanks again Ben
Two ways you could achieve this sparkle effect: Larger craft stores will sell these highly reflective clear "sparkle" chips, frequently used for just this purpose on Winter crafts. If you want the chips even smaller than what is commercially available... you could always grind them a bit either manually or in a clean mini-chopper of coffee grinder. I'd think just a little would go a long way when mixed in with your main snow component. Here's a link: http://www.createforless.com/products/productDetail.asp?ProductID=741 You could also try sparkle makeup, this should be available in most drug stores... I'd think this would be ground even finer than the craft sparkle. John http://www.ztrains.com
