Or how to freeze your enthusiasm…
At some stage of the game every scale modeller thinks it would be ” cool ” to make a snow scene. The big film studios have been doing it for years – some with great effect. Nothing says Eastern Front like a half-track with the crew starting a fire under the crankcase…
But how to do it? If you go to the hobby shop you can buy bottles and jars of acrylic paste that can be sculpted into snowdrifts. Then you can sprinkle further products on it that look like the individual flakes. The cost of the pastes and powders is just a little more than the air fare to White Horse…
Or you can roust about the house for other white powders – soap, baking soda, baking powder, talcum, etc. Parmesan cheese makes good snow if you are not worried about the slight yellow colour…
You can go to nightclubs in Northbridge and ask people to sell you bags of white powder…
I used to use acrylic polymer power out of my surgery for a lot of snow or ship’s wake modelling. Fine, easily dispensed from a salt shaker, and easy to wipe clean later. There are probably powders in Bunnings right now that would be perfect.
Whatever you choose, look at pictures of the real scenes – observe where snow falls and how it drifts. It is entirely different in Murmansk as opposed to Havana.
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