From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
[email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Homasote Board
Lee McCarty writes: “Since you are all talking about the use of Homosote, may I
inject a quick suggestion about the dust that is created when you cut the
stuff. Carefully collect as much of the dust as you can, put it into an empty
five gallon bucket, spray paint it with any earth color you wish, any natural
light brown, green, flax color, whatever earth colors you want on your layout.
Keep spraying until everything in the bucket is colored, then let it all dry,
stirring occasionally to break up clumps. When it is dried you will have a
wonderful source of ground cover in small to large lumps that convert into
field bushes, high grass, almost anywhere you want ground cover. You can even
spray twigs with spray glue, roll them into the material, and you have instant
deciduous trees and bushes. It also last forever and never gets hard or flakey.”
I love the idea!
For those of you who are having a hard time visualizing this mess, think dust
bunnies from under the bed but with the caveat that you know from whence they
came!
Since cutting up homasote is not an everyday affair this is one that ought to
be put to an article somewhere as it has some real possibilities!
Lee Kleidon
Tracktools LLc
Westminster, CO
