lint

[rhydddu009]

anyone know where one can get fluffy lint these days (for grass) - boots etc don't sell it anymore and ebay has none.   :(  ???

[pilotfriend]

While Boots may not have it, many smaller name chemists do

[Graeme Dunbar]

Agreed, try another chemists. I got some a year or so back. It could have been from Superdrug.

[rhydddu009]

thanks guys - will try some more chemists.

[wimorrison]

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 :(

[Darren Hedges]

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.

[rhydddu009]

oh I'[m sure there are websites out there for all kinds of lint fetishes  ??? :o :laugh:

[vulcan]

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

[Darren Hedges]

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

[vulcan]

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 :(

[webcompound3]

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

[EDGOZ2WAR]

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

[Isle of Stoner]

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.

[EDGOZ2WAR]

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.

[invercloy]

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.