hi all,
I don't know if you have try the following tip but I wanted to share it with you. Yesterday I took a bottle of salt. The salt was a little bit wet and it had the crystalised look of snow. I haven't tried on a dio I don't know if it will yellowish in the future or how can we glue it on a base as the salt melts in the water but I realy liked the look of it.

I haven´t used it myself so I may be speaking a load of garbage here.
The salt melts in water so the most obvious answer would be to use a glue that is not water based. Two-component glue could work...Not sure though...

Using salt to make snow is a messy proposition. I have tried it a long time ago with very poor results. What you could use to make snow instead is baking soda or baking powder or even flour (although flour is quite messy). Baking soda would be my first choice. Sprinkle it over some white glue and your done. If you want several layers I would apply first layer of white glue and then use something like hair spray for subsequent layers.

Well, I got one for ya. It's from Woodland Scenics........ SNOW (that's the real name of it)!!!! Used for the first time last year and still hasn't yellowed. I don't know what it's made from but it looks great. Just spray some well diluted white glue and the apply it to the area of snow. Candle wax from a white candle works well for ice. You buy the sheets of parfine (the wax in candles) at most craft store cheep. To make ice melt the wax then pour into pot or bowl of water makes a nice thin sheet that break aprt under that nice 40 tonne Sherman!!! HTH STUG

The Woodland Scenics snow is great. I love the stuff. It looks awesome once done. Looks totally realistic.

Me too - Me too! I like the Woodland Scenics Snow too. I've been messing around with "Snow Coat" from WW2ModelMaker recently and I'm beginning to understand and like that system too. It's just a bit more involved than the Woodland Scenics Snow product, that's all...

Gunnie