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spiral_72
February 5th 07, 09:12 PM
>From the lack of search results, am I the only one that wants to do
this?

I can glue rocks together, but I want to make, carve, paint etc my own
decorations. I have used plaster of paris cloth type thing, actually
there is a whole line of products for model railroads. Of course it
all falls apart in the water so it has to be sealed.

Styrofoam has a ummmm, buoyancy problem, and clay is very
inconveinient.

Has anyone found an easier medium?

Richard
February 6th 07, 01:07 AM
Check out netmax's site....

http://www.2cah.com/netmax/diy_projects/sculpture2/sculpture2.shtml

http://www.2cah.com/netmax/diy_projects/sculptures/sculptures.shtml


"spiral_72" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> >From the lack of search results, am I the only one that wants to do
> this?
>
> I can glue rocks together, but I want to make, carve, paint etc my own
> decorations. I have used plaster of paris cloth type thing, actually
> there is a whole line of products for model railroads. Of course it
> all falls apart in the water so it has to be sealed.
>
> Styrofoam has a ummmm, buoyancy problem, and clay is very
> inconveinient.
>
> Has anyone found an easier medium?
>

spiral_72
February 6th 07, 04:42 PM
That's incredible! Several hundred pounds of bouyancy!!? Wow. Is it
very likely the silicon job will fail? I guess you make sure you do it
right the first time.

Maybe this is stupid, but I had a rather large structure in mind
similar to his. What about all the water displaced? Surely something
that big would eliminate 10-20 gallons from the tank. No?

I guess I hoped someone knew of a modelling plastic or something that
could be used.