gt350pony66
Master Member
a little more work on droids, still need to wash them a hopefully I'll get the panel lines, but they're relatively faint so we'll see. On another aspect of the project, I finally got around to the snow. I had started out sprinkling by hand after I spritzed to glue on, found that wasn't getting it even. I glanced over to my loading bench and what's hanging on the wall...stainless flour sifter I use for gun powder! YEE HAW! So what I did was, spritz glue over the entire panel, dump the model snow in the sifter and shake it out over the whole thing. letting it sit for a minute or so (and I used all 6 bags) took another scrap of the base floor stuff, flip it to the smooth side and upended the project floor onto the scrap and gently tapping the still loose snow off. Scraped it up into a plastic container, putting the project back on top of the table saw, I could see where I had not gotten the glue good enough. hit it with glue again, filled the sifter again with the recovered snow and shook it out again. I repeated this process till hardly anything tapped off. I still need one or two more bags of snow for when I pull the tape and glue down the walls and round house, to blend the seams, as it were. And also to sprinkle on the anti-slip plates I scratched up, after they are placed, which will be after I position all the ships, and equipment. In all, I'd say the snow worked out well and the sifter made all the difference in spreading it around evenly. Though I will say, there were places where I had gotten a bit too much glued, and the snow slightly clumped a little, but this isn't a flat farm field in the winter, it's a base, so the irregularities I unintentionally ended up with actually enhanced the realism :thumbsup