Ballast Freeze. Anyone make their own?

[Gazzas]

VMS makes a nice product that will hold things like grass and leaves to your model and dry to a clear finish and has very low surface tension.  But it's not available here in Australia unless you wanna pay Amazon 4 times what anyone else is paying for it.  It purports to be an acrylic product.  But how acrylic is it?

 

Anyone made something like this their own? Maybe some of you long time modellers?  

 

I know that adding a little bit of ammonia-based glass cleaner to Future will take away a lot of surface tension.  But is this all there is to it?

 

Any other ideas?  Lemme know your thoughts.

[Panzerwomble]

Try watered down Mod Podge white glue in matt if thats around down there. Bit harder than the VMS product, but does the same thing and dries matt. 😀

 

It's what I used before VMS and is good for static grass, small rocks, gravel . 

 

On aussie Amazon apparently

 

 

 

Edited September 23 by Panzerwomble

[Gazzas]

50 minutes ago, Panzerwomble said:

Try watered down Mod Podge white glue in matt if thats around down there. Bit harder than the VMS product, but does the same thing and dries matt. 😀

 

It's what I used before VMS and is good for static grass, small rocks, gravel . 

 

On aussie Amazon apparently

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the recommendation.  Can but that locally here for 1/4 of what Amazon is asking.  That's how they ship for 'free'.  By jacking up the price on some items.

[LSP_Kevin]

Yeah, you can buy Mod Podge for cheap at Bunnings. And don't get me started on Amazon's fake free shipping! It's one of the (many) reasons I ultimately ditched Prime.

 

Kev

[Panzerwomble]

I don't use Amazon as they dont pay UK tax, and had to take out TV adverts explaining that "no we don't treat our workers terribly" . FYI

[Bob MDC]

PVA glue watered down really well with IPA check for any residue before actual use. This is an old method for ballast in railway modeling.

 

 

Bob