Homemade Flock

[Melnibonean]

I made a bunch of flock in my garage last week. It was surprisingly easy and the process provided a large amount of the stuff in a relatively short time.

I followed the instructions on this you tube video: by Viv at Rubbishin Rubbishout.

Lucky for me, one of the two places that sells Sawdust Flour in Melbourne is just up the road from my house. The only thing is, that I had to buy a 60 liter sack and to make what I did, used up about 2 liters. So I have a lot of surplus product ready for later use. Materials cost me $28 ($16 for the sack of sawdust, $12 for 3 tins of paint). I also have about 80% of the paint remaining.

As the video shows, it is very easy to make. It actually took more time to select and purchase the colours than it did to actually make the flock, itself. One thing that I did do a bit different was; and after mixing for a while I put on some cheap rubber kitchen gloves and really mashed the stuff together.

When the stuff was dry, I borrowed the big metal sieve from the kitchen (when my wife was out) and this process was pretty easy too.

I made 3 green shades and one earth shade.

Then I used a bunch of it to make a 6 x 4 terrain mat, some hills and forest floors (as seen in the bottom pic). But making all of this stuff only used up about 1/3 of what I made.

[Dr. Zombie]

Ohh that is very nice.

This might be a stupid question and it is perhaps already adressed in the video, but does the paint not make the sawdust stick together in a big clump?

[Melnibonean]

Ohh that is very nice.

This might be a stupid question and it is perhaps already adressed in the video, but does the paint not make the sawdust stick together in a big clump?

No it doesn't. I't like when you add coconut to a biscuit/cake mix. You just stir and stir and mix and mix and it comes out as slightly damp and crumbly.
When it dries it just crumbles but you do need to put it through a sieve to get real separation of the particles.