Hello,
Once you have your turf,Weeds,grass,Etc. in place what is the best way to keep it all in place,Is it glue & water mixture?Spray?
Thanks
First spray the area with wet water (water with a few drops of dish soap or rubbing alcohol). Then I prefer to dribble on the glue (50/50 mix of water and white glue with a little rubbing alcohol), with a mustard bottle, (mine has a adjustable nozzel.)
Nick
Nick,The rubbing alchol works great on the ballast,I 'm gonna try it on the ground cover,Thanks Brian
I mix it a bit different. I use about 10% white glue and 90% rubbing alcohol in a glue bottle. I have had some problems with shine/gloss in the past using 50/50. Never a problem with this mix, but it smells like a hospital for a while when you use it. Fred
I’ve use your receipe and the fumes can be tough. Works great though. Adding alcohol to the wet water is a bit more tollerable.
If you use matte medium diluted 50/50 or more it dries dead flat. This is basically the same as WS scenery cement only at a fraction of the cost.
Bob K.
Is there a particular brand of matte medium glue folks are using ?
Do you use BUD or BUD LITE [:D] sorry I had to.
Only in the redneck areas where the LPBs have no taste buds. . [8D][:D] Fred
Been using Amstell Light for the quality spots. Wonder why the scenery never gets done…
Most all seem to work so far. Liquitex is the brand using now. Some can have more fillers, especially a cheaper brand, Dave Frary recommends pouring into a glass jar with 3 parts water cover and let sit. after a several days the Talc and ? fillers will settle, pour off the diluted matte medium into labeled sealed containers ready for use. Some fillers can leave an unwanted haze.
If you haven’t seen his 3rd edition scenery book now out, you should check it out. There is a chapter alone on just adhesives and proper use of them. www.mrscenery.com or dave@mrscenery.com.
Not affiliated w/ Blue Ribbon Scenery Products at all, just would like to pass on the info to learn from one of the masters.
Bob K.
Diluted white glue and other things work pretty well, but i use a spray adhesive. It’s Elmers brand, and can be found at any hardware store most likely. I like to spay water under it, lay it down, spray water over it and then add the adhesive. Or, you could just spray it down with the adhesive, but it sometimes balls up when being worked with to make it even. Good Luck
I have a gallon of Elmers white glue and was wondering if this is ok for scenery glue?
BP, that’s exactly what I use. I just dilute it 50/50 with water and a couple of drops of dish detergent. For large areas, I brush straight white glue, sprinkle the ground foam on, then spray with wet water or rubbing alcohol. I’ve noticed that the cheapie spray bottles are pretty messy with rubbing alcohol, as it is so viscous that it leaks past the seals in the spray handle. For steep hillsides or mountains, I brush on the straight white glue, then sprinkle with sand from those tubes of sand you can get at Wal-Mart (for adding weight to your truck in the wintertime). Once that glue dries, the sand helps give the area some ‘tooth’ so that the ground foam doesn’t just run down the hillside with the diluted glue. If you’re dealing with plaster, I sift dry plaster on it while it’s still wet, or if it’s set up, I spray it with water, then sift dry plaster on it. It gives the smooth plaster a grainy or rocky kind of texture. Check my photos on Photobucket (link is under the locomotive pictures).
Yup!!! but I would eye dropper verses a spray sense you got it down. A sprayer will disrupted your turf. Dibble wetting solution of water and a few drops dish soap then use your diluted glue on it.