anyone know where one can get fluffy lint these days (for grass) - boots etc don't sell it anymore and ebay has none. :( ???
While Boots may not have it, many smaller name chemists do
Agreed, try another chemists. I got some a year or so back. It could have been from Superdrug.
thanks guys - will try some more chemists.
Are there local chemists left around?
My local chemist used to have a wonderful pharmacist that would get me things like IPA, but it was taken over by Lloyds and now I cannot have things like that as I am not qualified to handle them!!
Good luck on your search, this march of progress seems to be taking us backwards :(
What would you use hairy lint for today, other than scenic modeling? It's pretty much obselete as a wound dressing these days.
Just curious.
Regards,
Darren.
oh I'[m sure there are websites out there for all kinds of lint fetishes ??? :o :laugh:
Quote from: wimorrison on July 27, 2009, 21:42
My local chemist used to have a wonderful pharmacist that would get me things like IPA, but it was taken over by Lloyds and now I cannot have things like that as I am not qualified to handle them!!
Try Maplins for IPA, they let you walk out into a major shopping area with a whole litre of the stuff after nothing more than a small(ish) exchange of cash! Oh, plus Ferric Chloride crystals As well ;D
Quote from: vulcan on August 09, 2009, 15:28
Try Maplins for IPA, they let you walk out into a major shopping area with a whole litre of the stuff after nothing more than a small(ish) exchange of cash! Oh, plus Ferric Chloride crystals As well ;D
Hmmm..... looks like somebody's been having a go at home etching. ;D
No, having a go is what my dear wife did when she found out what it was for - I haven't been allowed near anything metallic since! And I've got four cans of Old Peculier in the fridge :(
Not sure if anyone will see this as it's an old post, but I have found lint in Boots within the last 12 months. I believe I have also seen it in both Tesco's and Sainsbury's, either by the plasters or behind the pharmacy counter.
Happy hunting
I have been using Wilkinsons hanging basket liner and have found this to give a superb effect. Even without painting the colours are just right and with a little trimming with some nail scissors you can get a rough grassland finish.
Eddie
I like the look of that. I'm off to Wilcos this very aftrenoon. My next layout needs some areas of exposed grass moorland type cover. I'll keep you posted.
You can split it in half and use both sides but you do need to pick out the really rough bits. I have found that if you tear it into strips it goes down quite well. I then put a sprinkling of Woodland fine tufts and some static grass (a big jar of various types of unknown origin) with tall grasses from the collar of an old parker type coat.
Looks very similar to the results I've achieved with carpet underlay, only a lot
more obtainable as the required type of underlay is now rather uncommon.
Will keep an eye out for some lint as I was wondering about some recently.