salt for a salt flat race car

[lilsceamer]

1 i wanna build a salt flat race car but what does a guy use to make the salt look on the body and how to apply

2 and how do you post a pic in your user name

THANK YOU

[James W]

This is just a suggestion, I have not done this for a while.

I would grind some table salt very fine and then add rubbing alcohol as a suspension and apply it by spraying it off a tooth brush.

If it dose not work or you don't like the pattern it will wipe off.

Look at reference photos for patterns on vehicles simular to yours.

Hope this works for you.

[Jantrix]

Baking soda applied over some thinned white glue?

[lilsceamer]

Baking soda applied over some thinned white glue?

thinned with water? or thinner

[ronr]

Might try some crushed White Chaulk.

[Modelmartin]

I glued actual salt onto a base and a car and it looked great for a while but when it gets humid out it will dissolve as mine did. I like the ground up chalk idea. You need something inert so forget the flower, baking soda, etc. That will attract insects!

[Guest Davkin]

Microballoons!

http://www3.omnimodels.com/cgi-bin/woi0001...OPR1090&P=7

They are very, very tiny glass spheres that are great for replicating salt and snow in scale.

David

[dryvr12]

i just read about this today! apply some water with a brush, then sprinkle, drop, pinch, or throw the salt. Apply your color coats over that. It sould look really bad and "chunky", like it was sitting at the bottom of the ocean. You should be able to scrape away the salt, which will chip away the paint which stuck to it.

Now to get the picture, once logged in, go to "my controls" go to the "personal controls" tab. The last option should be something like persoanl picture or something. Click on that. You should be able to download a pic onto there and it will show up when you post.

HTH, Zack

[dryvr12]

( i got the wrong idea)

[Hemi Killer]

( i got the wrong idea)

i just tried this the other day. i used sea salt, not regular salt. i put it on a paper plate, the crushed it up by rolling the bottom of a spoon over it a bunch of times. it turned out perfectly, powdery and salty, looks like to scale/