Real rock?
If you have any chance of the stuff getting into gears on your engines, you may
want to use something like kitty litter especially if it has not been colored
green. It is ground up clay, and will destroy itself before it does any gears.
Dave Engle
From: shabbona_rr
boB:
Ballast:
Don't know if it will be of use in S scale, but an O scale friend of mine uses
roofing granules. They come in pre-colored varieties. Just don't ask me
where he got'em... 'cause I can't remember with this CRS syndrome I seem to
suffer with quite often now.
Uhhh... what were we
Hi Dave!
I've heard of others using kitty litter... but the kitty litter I've been
around (we used to have a cat) would turn different shade (darker) once wetted.
What keeps that from happening in model use?
As for using organic materials:
In previous layouts I used real dirt/etc. I would
Regarding a fixative for scenic ground cover, boB said:
I have used everything from diluted white glue to liquid latex to Future Floor
Wax.
Haven't heard of the Future Floor Wax approach! Does it have any shine to
it???
As I mentioned previously, I used diluted Matt Medium. BUT... I wasn't
I forgot to mention the glue; I have always been told thinned white glue is
probably ok, but Liquitex Matte Medium will not harden up like white glue will.
Dave Engle
From: shabbona_rr user141...@mediacombb.net
To: S-Scale@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2013 10:16 AM
Subject:
Hi Dave Engle:
You said:
...but Liquitex Matte Medium will not harden up like white glue will.
Maybe I did something wrong, but everytime I used thinned Matt Medium it left a
whitish/milky residue here and there.
Have you used this technique and did you see the same thing? If not, what
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: FNF 10/4(5)/13!
Hi Dave Engle:
You said:
...but Liquitex Matte Medium will not harden up like white glue will.
Maybe I did something wrong, but everytime I used thinned Matt Medium it left a
whitish/milky residue here and there.
Have you used
Milkiness with matte medium is usually from stirring it too much - you stir in air that ends up trapped as tiny bubbles. As far as I can tell, that doesnt happen with white glue, but I still prefer matte medium.-Michael Eldridge -PS, In new Yahoo, I figured out how to remove most
