Well, I did try using a cleaner on my trees. I actually used Pine-Sol.
I had removed the trees and stuck them into some spare pink foam board.
I divided the trees into ones that needed to be replaced and ones I
wanted to keep and reinstall on the layout. In five minutes they were
clean and I simply sprayed the cleaner from all directions and then
washed them off with a light mist from the garden hose.
I split my weekend fun between building a view block for the back yard
and changing the scenery on the layout, so I was outdoors in the heat
for an hour or two; then back in the train-room. I ended up adding to
my painted background and then adding soil and static grass to selected
areas. I was getting a bit exhausted by Sunday evening, so the Johnny
Appleseed in me will have to wait till tonight to add back the trees.
After that a good track-cleaning in the area should put things back in
operating condition for my open house later in the week.
Bob
On 6/1/12 2:51 PM, Jim and Cheryl Martin wrote:
Hi Bob:
I haven't heard of using Lysol before, but before you go making your
layout smell like an Emergency Ward, why not try a spray of soapy
water...the kind of "wetted water" one puts down ahead of applying
dilute glue to scenery? My experience has been that the soapy water
washes the dust down into the scenery base. Once dry, the colors look
brighter, and scenery bits that have been working loose are reattached.
Jim Martin
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*From:* Bob Werre <[email protected]>
I've read where one railroader used a diluted Lysol cleaner to spray
his scenery and claimed it brightened things up. Have any of you fine
folks used anything else that could do the trick??--I've got some
other areas that will need some work in the future.
Bob Werre
