Ok! I give up trying to find this stuff on my own, heh.

Anyway, I built my wife a large outdoor miniature diarama for Christmas and I’m wanting to do a winter theme for her opening (the door), and I’m rather stumped on these.

So far, the best solution I found was snow powder/flakes and spray on adhesive, but I’m definitely open to something else (that’s not overly costly, 🤷‍♂️. I spent a looooot on this so far).

It will have a dirt base, so the snow needs to adhere to that as best as possible.

  • forty2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    White glue and baking soda, you may need a decent amount to spread around. If you glue down some cotton balls below, you can simulate little mounds of snow when you spread the glue+baking soda mix on top

    • ChamelAjvalel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Although it’s a pretty sheltered location, but wouldn’t the baking soda dissipate with any moisture? Humidity, rain, and/or snow?

      Edit: I just thought about it, and what I’ll do is run an experiment. I can place some near my kitchen sink’s handle. Water dripping from my hand and the humidity should give me a good idea how it’d work outside.

      • forty2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Curious to hear how the experiment turns out, moisture wasn’t a consideration for my application all those years ago. You could be right, but I feel like baking soda with the glue might hold the moisture in

        • ChamelAjvalel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          First issue I found, I needed to add a little water to the mixture so it would keep from pulling up the dirt as I tried to spread it on. Made it so I could just pour it over. Wtich means two things, I’ll see how moisture reacts to it, and have to wait maybe two days for it to dry…which, if so, might make it really difficult in that I’ll have to fill the unit with dirt before we move it (and it is quite heavy without the added dirt).

          Update:

          Well, I’ll be damned. I used a heat gun and it dried up within seconds…Everything is back on schedule again, 😃