I’d always heard this was the most realistic stuff to use, so I thought I’d give it a try. The car is a 1/24 '66 Galaxy. I bought a tube of flocking to match the interior color at my LHS. I put down a base of diluted white glue, then sprinkled the flocking on. It came out in little balls. Okay, I thought, I must have to crush it between my fingers to get it to smaller size. No go - I just balled up, like the colored lint it appears to be. Then I thought, just press it down. Nope - looks like a carpet of pressed lint balls. Finally I just washed the whole mess out and quit. How do you use this stuff to get a realistic carpet texture? I’m about to give up and just paint the floor - it will hardly be visible anyway.
You need a fine mesh strainer, like your grandma had for tea. It needs to be sifted through the strainer first, then you use the strainer to dispense the flocking onto the white glue.
i have another way to give the carpet look i use embossing powder which you can get from hobby shop i airbrush the paint on to the area you want nice heavy coat the place over some paper folded in half to catch powder to use again keep dusting over untill it is all covered
the powder comes in varoius colors but you can airbrush over to match interior. I use it on motorbike seats also check out picture below it also loolks good on seats for rally cars and f1 racing seats
Try Rockler Woodworking. They have an air-assisted flocking gun. The flock comes in 3 oz. bags (enough to cover approx. 12 sq. ft.). They have the same color adhesive to match. Also have a hand-operated mini-flocker. It looks like the main use is for jewelery boxes. The air-assisted is a tad expensive, but the hand-operated is only $5. Hope this helps. The web site is rockler.com
Definitely use the strainer as flock tends to clump. After sifting(I sift on a contrasting piece of construction paper) mix white glue and water at about 50/50. Paint glue mixture on to subject, try to work in sections. Pour flock on. Wait a minute then pour flock out. Tap part gently to remove any excess. After glue has set I usually use my airbrush to gently blow out any excess still remaining. Make sure your surface has been painted to match the flock color.
Yeah a wire strainer. A cheap one at the dollor store works fine.
I myself have always had trouble using glue or paint as the adhesive. Comes out uneven, but someone had shown me another method and I put his tutorial up on my website. I did a whole car with that stuff and it worked great. For an interior it will require a fair amount of masking but the results are worth it. Just let the adhesive dry before tapping it out. Here is a link to that tutorial.
Credit goes to a kid named 1ofakind. Only thing I would change is to make sure you paint the part the desired color before flocking, it will look alot better.
