Modeling Snow

[nachoman]

The only time I have modeled snow was for a Christmas display layout, and for that it was best to make it look "fakey". I used gloss white latex paint and sprinkled on clear white glitter while it was still wet. It actually looked good for that "greeting card" look.

I think how you model it depends on what "kind" of snow you are modeling. Are you modeling:
Deep snowpack in the spring?
Freshly fallen snow?
Mountains?
Pancake-flat Midwest?

My experience is that in most places, snow is only "pretty" for a day or two. After that, it gets rather dirty with plenty of bare spots. In the mountains around here, south facing slopes are usually snow-free within a few days of a snowfall, the snow has fallen from the trees, and the snow plowed from the roads leaving big dirty piles. Model Railroader had a Rand Hood article in the mid-1990s about modeling patchy springtime snow that I thought was very convincing - and may be worth tracking down.