Snow Scenery Plan B the Test

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As we know snow scenery attempt 1 didn’t go very well. https://gordy.uk/2021/02/22/quick-update-on-some-snowy-stuff-on-a-saturday-afternoon/ No matter how much glue I applied the hoover ripped it up.

I decided therefore to modify my process and use acrylic medium onto the painted surface and then apply the snow to the wet medium. My idea is when that dries it will hold the snow. lets look at the process.

This is the test area.. I masked off the track to protect it from the medium
Apply the medium its a paste if I wasn’t going for fresh snow I would add colour to the paste before applying it.
Here you see the matt medium on the right and the medium with snow on the left. I decided to remove the masking tape and apply the medium between the ties.
I applied snow to everything with the Sieve to get an even coat
finally securing it with some scenic spray glue from Woodland Scenics
then I added some grass Tufts straight into the medium. I think this could end up being done with static grass and it would probably look better.
next I started to add trees and foliage along the backscene
looks a bit too colourful eh!
then back over with the glue and more snow
lets check out some stock
An overhead view that you won’t see when the layout is being operated as its at Eye level and the bottom of the backscene is 1 inch below the height of the track at this point.

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