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What is form of paper is the best for papermache? tissue or newspaper?
I have started with newpaper but it is not very good, so i want to get advice form a decent modeler.
Many Thanks Chris

News paper is best but use wallpaper paste rather than PVA glue and water as they just make the paper soggy. I hope this has helped cheers colin

Papermache is all good if it is dried out properly...

If not and is placed in places where the temp varies a lot, like a loft or garage, it will go mouldy and smell like an old pond (not nice)

Using mod rock is a very good option (again can go mouldy, I think if not dried out properly) it sets very hard and u won’t put ur thumb though it

Hope this helps
Matt

Once I had made my embankment with wallpaper paste I "Varnished" both sides with a PVA/water mix (about 50/50) and I got a much harder and more durable surface, and it seals the papermache and disocurages mould growth.

thanks guys, but colin where the hell am i gong to get wallpaper paste with out looking like . carrying a tub of the stuff!
Thanks Deio

PS Colin you just helped me
Chris

PSS. What would be the best way to repair a broken tender joint (the bar that connets the tender to the loco; yes i have on of those)

DeioKeios wrote:where am i gong to get wallpaper paste with out looking like . carrying a tub of the stuff!

Any home DIY store. And if your street cred is that vital to you, put it in a plastic bag or box. Or alternatively put a bag over your head and no one will know it's you.

Martin

or make your own, using flour and water (or does buying flour from the supermarket dent the street-sred as well?)

http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/paperm ... pastes.htm

However, paper mache is no longer the best way of making a landscape, especially with chicken wire.

Instead, get an old net curtain, cut it up into 2 inch squares, make up a bowl of plaster, with some PVA glue in it to make it a bit flexible. Use rolled up newspaper, cardboard, etc, as formers for the scenery, dunk pieces of net into the plaster, and lay over the surface, overlapping irregularly. Leave the plaster until it is nearly dry, then use a big wet paintbrush to smooth over the surface. Paint green, the glue on lots of scatter materials.

Or buy a "touch-up pack" which you can put in your pocket!!!

you can get some wallpaper paste which comes dried. You add it to water.

That way you can carry it in a bag and don't have to worry about it splitting. Also its lighter.

Those suggestions are great. i think i shall try the curtain netting one instead of normal paper mache. this topic is now closed.