Modeling Ice Storm?? Anyone?

The picture reminds me of the movie Christmas Story. Anyway, what you outline ought to work.  If I were doing it, I'd experimentlearn how much icicle, etc.,t apply, and how,  on something was willing to ruin if things go bad.  But it ought to work. 

Please post pictures, whether it works well or not.

Lee there is a good reason it reminds you of that movie. That would be the house, (scene from movie) on Cleveland St. And actually that is why I was asking. Next time I'm in Hobby Lobby or Micheal's I'll have to look for that stuff and do some Expermintations.............

The picture looks like it was FROM the actual movie!

Neat idea......

You don't want matte medium.   Gloss medium would give the shiny look you want. 

I will have to give myself a duh........... for that one. Of course not matte, you are most correct. I was trying to do two things at once and that's what popped into my head first. Hey at least I did pick a clear substance............

To make the snow here is a tip from one of our club members.  Mark Boyd used his blender and the packing peanuts.  It resulted in a very nice and fluffy snow which he filled some of his gondolas with for our Christmas show…I offer you give that a try…just don't tell the wifey, or hp down the thrift store and buy a use blender…

I have a compete "tool selection" of such things in the shop/garage for such uses…

JZ

A long time ago I made snow by grating styrofoam with a kitchen food grater using the fine pointed holes. Worked great but the static it generated had that stuff all over me and the 5 gal. bucket I was catching it in. After that Christmas I went over to MB Kleins to see what they had on sale and to my surprise they had bags of the very stuff I spent several weeks making for not much more than I had spent on the styrofoam.

Live and learn.

Jerry

I think without snow on the ground it will just look like shiney trees. The snow COULD be from a previous storm.

Recent thread on the ice storm Vermont/Maine.  Note that the weight of the ice is a significant part of the problem (detail to be modeled) .  Thank God, ice storms are a rare occurrence.

Yes, you would have to have snow, sleet on ground and maybe a light dusting of snow on some trees. I just wanted to duplicate the look of the ice on trees. As apposed to snow covered trees.

We've had a few ice storms, as an ice storm is more likely here, and where I lived in North Carolina that any real amount of snow. Here maybe every 5 or 6 years we may get a few inches of snow. In NC is was almost annually but still usually 1 to 2 inches of snow. A couple of times we got 6 to 8 and we could play for a couple of days before it disappeared. We had a really bad ice storm in Texas, while I was in NC, my mother in law's power was out for several days.