Building Hills for Model Train Layout Villages

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Bob Lanning and I’m here to tell you about how we’re making model villages. There’s many ways of building the hills that we’ve done, like we’ve done here. One of the ways is by using crumpled newspaper and you can’t go wrong. When you use this plaster cloth and you get a great texture, you just paint it with a tan paint and put your grass and scenery. And another way is to use the foam which is actually an insulation product from the building industry. You can stack it up, you can carve it with a hot knife, and you just put your scenery on as before with the plaster cloth and dirt and grasses. Uh, when you start your scenery with either the foam or the paper, you can buy this plaster cloth which actually was a product from the medical industry originally for making casts and now it’s made for modelers and you lay it over and just dip it in water first and it works pretty good. You just take a brush and you kind of fill in those holes and it comes out white from the plaster and then you paint what ever color you want to give the look of dirt. You actually use really sand here, a real fine sand to make your thing and you can buy all of your scenery products from commercial manufacturers for the little bushes, and uh, foam that makes little fall colors. I have made the yuccas and things from various products you buy like at Michaels and they’re actually made to look like. You can buy prickly pear cactus and everything. "