hi

I am working on one diorama there I want to have snow and snow intermixed clay.
Someone who can help me with techniques, and what materials work to use, etc,
Grateful for replies

The best material I've found is to get a bottle of Micro-Ballons. This is used for filler in resin casting, it is cheaper than Techstar's snow and stays nice and white. I mix mine with matte medium for acrylic painting . Just be careful, the stuff is nasty if you get it in your nose. It's like a very fine powder.

White Marble Dust with the same precautions you would take using any fine particle / airborne contaminate.

C.

Baking soda is a very cheap and convincing method,just coat surface with white glue and water mix then spinkle soda over this with a sieve,once dry you can spray on a laquer coat to preserve and protect.

Steve

I agree.

In my experience, baking soda is the cheapest and the easiest method.
With a proper coat of lacquer, it won't yellow or crumble apart.
I have used baking soda in some dioramas I made about 10 years ago, and it is "snow as white" until today

Cheers.

This is one of those topics that generates a lot of controversy and some pretty ingenious ideas. A quick search of Armorama using the Google search bar in the upper right gave me these threads:

How to make snow

Snow

Two of the most common methods I've found are baking soda and Microballoons. Baking soda is very controversial in that some people swear by it, whereas others hate it, saying it yellows over time and can attract bugs. There are good arguments for both sides - some people have had dios for 10+ years without yellowing or bugs, while others haven't been so lucky. If you decide on this method, HERE is an article from ML that might help you.

Microballoons is described by Lynn Kessler in his book "How to Build Armor Dioramas" as "a finely ground styrofoam used by R/C aircraft modelers to make fillets in balsa wood". I have heard some say that the Woodland Scenics snow is the same thing. I've also heard that it can be very irritating to your sinuses if inhaled. Jan mentions this in his article on Making trees. It seems to give very good results, however, and I will probably use it on my current dio. If I can find it, that is.

As for other methods, I used Sweet n' Low for my diorama and found the grains to be much too big, so I wouldn't recommend that route. You can see a picture here:



I'm sure there are many more methods that I haven't outlined here, so keep researching. You will also probably get a lot of responses here.

HTH,
Samuel

And don't forget this product as well, Snow/Ice Coat, available on your side of the pond from Cammett's (and here's a really cool tutorial )

Snow-Coat

I know this mat seem a bit un-orthidox, but i think i have stumbled upon a great way to acheive the look of freshly fallen snow (like a light sprinkle)
One morning when i was camping i looked on the ground where i had brushed my teeth the night before. The bubbly combination of water and lathered toothpaste was spat on the grass the night before. However, all the water had evaporated, leaving a perminent, powdery looking snow.

I have used Woodland sceneics snow, over a coat of Vallejo clear water, ocassionally I add micro-balloons

what is this spray?

Hello,

I would recommend you sodium bicarbonate or baking soda in english.
Cheap and very effective.

Best,

Julien

Pedros baking soda is a powder that is used for cooking,it comes in a small tub and you have to sprinckle it onto your diorama basework.

Steve

Hi guys


Thanks a lot; you have been to big help.