Hi All,
What is the best way to lay turf on a layout. I bought a few bags of turf and plan on layering them. Is there a spray on glue I can use?
Thanks,
Roger
I tried spray adhesive to no avail. I’ve sutck with white glue and water diluted to a consistency where it will spray evenly out of a spray bottle. I wet it first with a mixture of alcohol and water to allow the water/glue mix to sink in better. I do this on each appliation/layer of landscaping.
Use white glue, diluted 1 part glue to 4 parts water. Add a drop or two of liquid soap. Mix it thoroghly so the glue isn’t sitting on the bottom.
Now heat it in a microwave for 30 seconds. This is the key.
Once warmed, it can be sprayed through a pump-sprayer set to “mist”.
Make sure to clean the sprayer when you’re done or it will dry solid and be useless later.
That is what I needed to know. Thanks!
I use 50/50 water and white glue w/ some alcohol added. I never liked using a sprayer, so I use an old mustard bottle with a screw nozzel instead.
Don’t forget to spray with wet water first. I prefer a water/alcohol mix to water/dish soap.
Nick
Roger, don’t forget to mask anything you don’t want glue on. No matter what you use to apply the glue, it won’t be precision spraying. Good luck.
Dan
I found spraying to be very awkward, particularly when working in areas that were already partially scenicked. I found that I could take a bottle of Elmers about 1/3 full of full-strength glue and fill the rest of the bottle with water. I shook it up good, and then just squirted some on the un-turfed surface. I spread it with a small paintbrush to get even coverage. I did this a little bit at a time over maybe a 6x6 inch area. Then I sprinkled on the turf, using a mix of browns and greens. I could also add flocking, but I found that I needed to add a bit more glue on top if I did that. Clean the brush right away when you’re done.
This time of year, this takes about a day to dry. After that, I go over it lightly with a vacuum cleaner to pick up the loose stuff, and I’m done.
I start the whole mess by adding a few squirts of cheap brown acrylic paint to Gypsolite, which I spread over the surface. This gives me a light-brown textured base which looks a lot better than flat foam or plywood. Next I make up a wash of cheap green acrylic and paint that on, deliberately not covering everything to leave “bare patches”. On slopes, I like to leave the bare patches in strips running up and down the hill, so it looks like erosion. This gives kind of a camouflage pattern to the Gypsolite surface. After I paint on the glue, I use a brown turf on the brown areas, and a green turf on the green areas.
This is a sample of how this turns out. The lighter green is flocking, and the light brown is areas of the gypsolite with no turf.
There are times when I use cheap super hold hairspray.
At our age, Art, many of us don’t have enough hair to need that kind of stuff! [(-D]