NSR May-June 2015: Denton does it again...

[peteski]

not clean it off as in remove it from the loco...
rather, clean it as in the scenery where you want it to stay....  and be clean.

victor

Now you have me confused.  I am assuming that the plaster is applied in its powdered (not mixed with water and hardened) form over the scenery.  To me the fine plaster powder (similar to very fine talcum powder) would seem to be much harder to remove than much coarser baking soda particles. Plaster leaves a dusty residue - baking soda leaves almost no residue.  But as usual we have strayed way OT here. Baking soda or not, I'm sure that Bill's diorama and photos are excellent quality.

[mcjaco]

[peteski]

Oh come on, where else but on TRW would you be able to freely discuss, in excruciating detail, removal of fake snow material from N scale dioramas? 

This place rocks!

[victor miranda]

I'm thinking this is mostly funny...
as in "where'd you shoot 'im?" and the answer being "behind the davenport"

If you want to do a snow scene... effectivly?
you may want to paint the ground foam a color a lot like white.
otherwise and it looks a LOT liks a heavy layer of dust.
(which is what it is...)
so after the white paint, you want to have a little sparkly look.
at that point plaster as a dust and baking soda can have that look,

If you want to clean it because not-white dust settles on your winter...
you vacuum off the 'dusts' and reapply.

or...

you paint on irridescent medium and then you can wash or vacuum the scene.

I find winter tough, cause it is so clean.
spring is hard mecause of the many shades.
summer is easiest for the general green-ness
and fall has many shades again, just different shades.

[peteski]

You gave me good laugh Victor.  I think that we would make good Two Stooges!  Nyukski, nyukski! Yes, there is clean (as in making it dust-free) and clean (as in remove). 

But living in Massachusetts I can personally attest that snow doesn't remain clean for long. It quickly turns grungy color, especially around railroad tracks and roads.  But I also understand that we usually like to model idealized settings where snow always remains pure white.

[coosvalley]

Continued thread drift....Doesn't Woodland Scenics make a snow product?...Is it sparkly?...And for others who might wonder, does it clean up well?..I have no idea, I'm just wondering....

[sirenwerks]

Continued thread drift....

Or continued snow drift...

[Doug G.]

You could use Wintrex which looks more like snow than snow. Or many furlongs of white paint with special snow finish.

Doug