Model Forum / General / Railroads / June 2004

    For those cheapskates (like me) who find Woodland Scenic's
price for the plaster cloth little short of robbery, go to any medical
supply and get the medical version. It is the same thing but
considerably cheaper. I use it to make hardshells for alginate molds,
reinforcing for silicone molds, and tons of other use. It is not the
cheapest thing going (plaster soaker gauze is lots cheaper but way
messier and trickier to use) but it is cheaper than the WS product.
buy it by the case for the best price. You will find you use a LOT
more than you think you will, so be prepared.

                                cat

Mike Tennent wrote:
I finally got around to putting up some more pics of my new layout -
including a How-To on creating mountains/hills with Woodland Scenics
Plaster Cloth.
The layout is quite bare bones right now. Hopefully I'll get a chance to
work on it a lot this summer (or maybe even next week during the G8
Conference which is right here on St. Simons Island.)
Go to:
http://www.ironpeng.com/mrr/srr_Nscale.htm
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Nice work, Mike. This should prove extremely valuable to anyone planning
to use plaster cloth scenery.

Bill
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Thanks for the post Mike, nice site. Your layout looks like it will turn out
very nice- a lot of space for scenery and not a "spaghetti bowl" of track.

I will be using this method on my own layout now that it is approching the
scenic stage.

-TG