How to make snow??

[moeggo]

I the next month or so. I going to building Hartmann "white 1" (think thats what called) I would like to make a base/diorama for it with snow on the ground. Whats the ways to make snow!

[madmike]

Bicarb soda is a great choice!

;)

MikeJ

[erwin]

Hi,

Try white chalk rubbed over a fine file. Just hold it above the diorama and it will'snow' down .

The humidity in the air will make the chalk stick to any surface.

I did this one years ago and nothig has fallen of since.

:unsure:

[Arseny]

Surfing through the Net I found diorama stuff called powder snow

I don't have any idea about how good is it and how to use it, but just want to let you know :unsure:

[I.Illes]

Just make sure, it doesn´t catch too much dust, cleaning these will be tricky :unsure:

For dioramas like these, you will be better off with a displaycase or something similar.

Looks mighty fine!

Well, I do it a bit different and paint the surface with flat white acrylics and use a rough textured surface to simulate dry cold snow. Snow can look very different in every scene: crystaline, shiny, glitterstuff and all that, but during cold winters like at the eastern front, it can be dead flat and dry.

István

[Raymond Chung]

Check the woodland items:

Snow.

[Arseny]

Hi, Raymond!

Any plans for dispaly cases in Luckymodel.com?

[Scotsman]

The woodland Scnics snow is excellent ,

Its basiclly very finely ground plastic dust , stcks well wih PVA or Spray mount , it's a lot more stable that the "biological" approaches such as bicarb/starch/flour that I've seen used in the past

The attached photo shows a section of a diorama I built a couple of years ago, the white stuff in the corners is the woodland scenics snow

I just added some thinned down PVA and then sprinkled it in

Its supposed to be somewhere in Germany early spring 1945

[too-cool]

Hey, Several years ago, I used a "snow can" that you can use to make some drawings on the windows during X-mas time... This gave a pretty satisfying result and is really easy to use as it comes from a spray can.

[SteveL]

try using an artificial sweetener! Like Sweet & Low! Its really a chemical and bugs won't touch it!

It has the "crystalized" look like real snow and you can seal it with Future.

Here's an article I submitted to this site a while back.

P51 Diorama

[jrallman]

wow, thats ALOT of sweet-n-low!