attaching snow

[300savage]

What would be a good adhesive to bond snow to a rock?

[Big Bucks]

Theres this spry adhesive in a can it works good for attaching dirt or snow to rocks and other habitat. Colton

[George Roof]

Buy Elmers spray glue or one that advertises that it dries CLEAR.  Sad to say, been there, done that, got yellow snow.  Wanted to make it more yellow but resisted the urge.

[300savage]

LOL    good one Mr Roof   I appreciate the replies 

[Laurier]

get water activated snow , and it looks the best as well.

[300savage]

Doesnt the water activated snow dehydrate?

[George Roof]

I've seen it and don't agree with the realism.  It looks like someone puked on a branch in my opinion.  I like the fluffy stuff like WASCO sells with the glitter added.  I use quilt poly to build up the thicknesses, use shears to shape it, and then put on multiple coats by shaking the "snow" down over the glued area.  I always do this on a plastic sheet so that I can salvage an reuse the residual that falls off.

[outwoods taxidermy]

water activated, just brush/spray  your groundwork white masionary paint then sprinkle,  good results.............

[Laurier]

george it's the same stuff i am talking about

[Nancy C]

I like the water activated snow flocking as well as the ground up styrofoam kind that you glue on.
The water activated kind is better if you want to sprinkle your entire scene. You just mist the whole thing with water and then apply the snow with a flour sifter. It gives a very nice effect, but you can't build up much depth with it. It looks like new snow that fell when it was already COLD outside. Sort of frost-like.
For the styrofoam kind, just use white glue like Elmers. You can also glue it to white polyester batting, like George said, if you want to make it look deeper, or you can pre-sculpt you snowdrifts from white foam.
I will often mix the two kinds of snow together because it's easy to apply a light dusting of water-activated snow on top of the foam kind.
This mount used both kinds.



The light dusting on the rocks and leaves is the water-activated kind from WASCO.
The main ground cover snow is the styrofoam kind glued over white-painted blue foam.

[300savage]

Absolutely beautiful Nancy  thank you very much