embossing-powder, replacing flocking?

[fiatboy]

Do I have this right, 'embossing powder'?  I saw it mentioned in a model car magazine.  Help, anyone?

[High octane]

While a number of modelers have had success using embossing powders, I have yet to try it and I still use Funny Fur/flocking.

[gtx6970]

I've used it on the last 2 builds I completed.

I like it much better than flocking. to me its more realistic.

[Mr Stock]

I also use Embossing powder, I only use two colours, black and a clear which can be overpainted with any interior colour, it looks much more i scale and realistic than flocking in my opinion.

[Theo]

While a number of modelers have had success using embossing powders, I have yet to try it and I still use Funny Fur/flocking.

I use both. The embossing powder is finer and takes paint well, so you can use clear or white and paint whatever color you want. The down side to painting it is that you lose the soft texture to the touch. It does look more in scale for short nap carpet and upholstery (think 60s-70s carpets).  If you are going for the more shag type appearance (think lowrider or customs carpets and upholstery) I find flocking looks better.  Using the color flocking also allows you to retain the fluffy texture to the touch.  I also find the embossing powder is easier to get laid down with an even layer. I do not find one or the other superior, just different depending on the look and feel you are going for.

[Steven Zimmerman]

Embossing powder does not 'shed' later on, ever try to get flocking residue off the inside of your model's windshield  ?..... I could care less about how embossing powder 'feels', more interested in it's durability and ease of use. Just my opinion, but I no longer have flocking anywhere in my hobby room.

[High octane]

I don't know how you get flocking on your windshield unless you turn your model upside down and shake it. To get it off the windshield, I myself would stick a paint brush into the interior and wipe it off the windshield.

[Tom Geiger]

Embossing powder does not 'shed' later on, ever try to get flocking residue off the inside of your model's windshield  ?..... I could care less about how embossing powder 'feels', more interested in it's durability and ease of use. Just my opinion, but I no longer have flocking anywhere in my hobby room.

I don't know how you get flocking on your windshield unless you turn your model upside down and shake it. To get it off the windshield, I myself would stick a paint brush into the interior and wipe it off the windshield.

I agree with Steve... flocking will come off and the static electricity will have it cling to windshields. My own fix for that was to give it a shot of hairspray to keep it in place.

I bought an embossing powder pack with many colors on eBay, I have yet the occasion to test it out.

[Harry P.]

Embossing powder looks much more like in-scale carpeting. No car has carpeting that looks like what you get with flocking.

[MrObsessive]

Embossing powder is all I use for carpeting anymore. Like others have said, to my eyes it's much more in scale appearing than flocking, especially for 1/24-1/25 scale. Flocking is OK for larger scales say 1/16 on up, but it still has that "fuzzy/hairy" look to me although not as much in those scales.

Here are a few pics of embossing powder on recent models I did..............

'59 Chevy......

'67 Mustang........

IMO, I think the embossing powders give you a much wider scale of colors to choose from than flocking, and I've not found it to shed/flake much if at all once it's fully dry on your paint/white glue. 

[snacktruck67]

Embossing powder works real well.  I have used both methods.  Flocking does real well in most cases, but sometimes I find that embossing powder is easier to use especially if you don't have open sided interior.  In that case it is easier to get the powder in the tub and when it comes to getting the excess out it comes out very easy and no dusty mess.

 

[Steven Zimmerman]

I don't know how you get flocking on your windshield unless you turn your model upside down and shake it. To get it off the windshield, I myself would stick a paint brush into the interior and wipe it off the windshield.

Do you understand static electricity ? And I have had models sitting in the case for years after being completed, with no flocking residue on the inside of the windshield, and have it show up ( usually when cleaning for a contest)Your answer sounds easy, try it sometime.....

[kitbash1]

My question is, where do you buy Embossing Powder ? I'd like to give it a try on my next build.

[Xingu]

My question is, where do you buy Embossing Powder ? I'd like to give it a try on my next build.

Can get it at the big crafting stores or online. I think even Walmart had it.

[Harry P.]

Hobby Lobby. Or online.

[Longbox55]

Craft stores, usually in the scrapbooking section. From my own experiences with the local (sort of) to me craft stores, they're located in the same aisle as ink pads and stamps. I recently picked up some at the local JoAnne Fabrics store to try, and I will say that I'm impressed. Looks much better than the flocking I've tried before.

This is the set I got, runs about $25 for 15 colors plus one vail of clear. http://www.joann.com/hampton-art-a-la-mode-embossing-powder-set-basics/1449669.html#start=26

 

[StevenGuthmiller]

Embossing powder is all I use for carpeting anymore. Like others have said, to my eyes it's much more in scale appearing than flocking, especially for 1/24-1/25 scale. Flocking is OK for larger scales say 1/16 on up, but it still has that "fuzzy/hairy" look to me although not as much in those scales.

Here are a few pics of embossing powder on recent models I did..............

'59 Chevy......

'67 Mustang........

IMO, I think the embossing powders give you a much wider scale of colors to choose from than flocking, and I've not found it to shed/flake much if at all once it's fully dry on your paint/white glue. 

I agree!

Great stuff & so easy to use.

Looks absolutely realistic & you don't have to paint it.

It comes in a wide variety of colors.

I bought this set on ebay for $14.00.

Comes in other colors too.

These are the metallic colors.

They look especially realistic to me.

 

Steve

 

[hedotwo]

Another vote for embossing powder.  Easily the more scale-looking of the two, in my opinion.

[fiatboy]

Is there an "all-purpose"  embossing powder that can be painted any color?  Thanks for all the help.  

[StevenGuthmiller]

Is there an "all-purpose"  embossing powder that can be painted any color?  Thanks for all the help.  

If you want to paint it, just get white.

 

Steve

[Harry P.]

You can paint any color embossing powder any color you want.

[StevenGuthmiller]

You can paint any color embossing powder any color you want.

True, but it would be much easier to paint white black, than black white.

 

Steve

[peteski]

You've piqued my interest. I never used flocking in my models as I always thought it was way out-of-scale looking in 1:24 or 1:43 scales (but it looked fine on the floor of the 1:8 Pocher Mercedes). I just painted the carpeting using flat paints. But this embossing powder looks interesting. Is there a good tutorial on how to apply it?

[StevenGuthmiller]

You've piqued my interest. I never used flocking in my models as I always thought it was way out-of-scale looking in 1:24 or 1:43 scales (but it looked fine on the floor of the 1:8 Pocher Mercedes). I just painted the carpeting using flat paints. But this embossing powder looks interesting. Is there a good tutorial on how to apply it?

It's very easy to apply.

Just apply a little white glue to the area you want to cover, (I thin the glue with a little water) and then just dump it on & shake it around until it's covered.

Shake the leftover powder onto a piece of paper & save it for the next build.

You can paint it after, or do like I do & paint the surface before hand with a color that's close to your powder color & then apply over it.

 

Steve

[ChrisBcritter]

Would Micro Foil Cement work OK?