Snow

Joe · Snow

Hi,
I'm thinking of making Newton East into a snow scene layout, perhaps only a light covering, I was just wondering if anyone on here has any pictures or articles about either real life snow scenes or on model railways, It would be a great help as I have to decide whether I could pull it off or not, as for actually getting anywhere with Newton East, well, until I've finished SOS It's not going anwhere, 'till next time, byebye.

Noakesy123

As I said on MSN, heres my few:

There you go, hope these help.
Were taken at crownlakes in Yaxley, on Tornado's first mainline railtour in Febuary!

upnick

Hi Joe,

Snow isnt a medium i have modelled ........ but have got a shaker of Woodland scenics snow i hope to use in the future being a fine scenic material as their others in the range a thin spreading of diluted PVA using a seive to apply it gives good results allowing you to have areas of part melted snow up to a fine covering.

bando1_de

Hi Joe,

There are some model snow pics on the Miniatur Wunderland site.

Basically, the landscape is modelled using plaster and, once the plaster has hardened, painted a brilliant snow white. A second coat of paint - mixed with a bit of white glue - is brushed on after that. A stuff called "Diamantine" is then sprinkled onto the wet paint/glue mixture. The next day, vacuum off the surplus and you're done.

Erhard

Joe

Thanks for all the help, the new track arrived today so Might have to have a go at this new fangled snow on that layout first.

m.levin

I found Talc to work fine, on my scene, but it was loose so it did need re applying in places, over time, unfortunately the scene is no more.

Joe

That looks very nice, thanks, I would try the technique but I keep forgetting to buy some...