Hi Guys,
For a lot of years now I have been using the very fine sand they used to fill public ashtrays with for my deserts.
I am just about finished with what I have and these days, of course ,I can't seem to find it.
Rather than spend a lot of time experimenting on a new technique I thought ,why not call on the advice of hundreds of fellow modellers.
Thanks in advance.

Ola Tom

Go to the petshop and get yourself a Liter of Birdcagesand. It is really nice whitesand often has fragments of shells in it and little stones. Costs absolutely nothing and it is perfect for Desertfloors. While you are at the petshop by a bag of stones for on the floor of an aquarium and mix it through the birdcage sand. Spray it with your airbrush. Works like a dream

like Faust, I alo buy, aquarium sand, it's verry fine zand

and if you'd like to make a stone desert I'd strongly recommend the sandpebbles they use in Tram brakes, but then you'd have to have tram in your country?do they?

greetz

Hi Tha Pit,
Aquarium sand sounds like a good option,but Faust and tram I have no idea what they are.
Thanks.
Tom

Try Chinchilla dust/sand, its the finest sand I have come across.

Thanks Darren.
I did some research on it yesterday and it seems to be exactly what I'm looking for.
At first I thought Chinchilla was a brand name,I had no idea it was actually used to clean Chinchillas.

Sugar sand is the finest I have found. also kitty litter the tan stuff not the gray. Gray k.t. is clay and clumps up bad. The tan is perfect for stony desert though. Does not clump or desolve with water/white glue mix and takes paint and stain very well.

Try ash out a fireplace you wont get anything better.
YOu still have to run it through a sive however to weed out the bits off wood and unburned things.

Bits of wood and "unburned things"???? what exactly do you put in your fireplace?

Victims?... Couldn't resist!