Ground Texture for Model Train 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. Another way of building hills is with the foam that is used in the building industry for insulation. You can buy it in two inch or one inch pieces and you can stack it up. You can carve it with a hot wire and, once you get it in the form you need, you buy your plaster cloth we show here, which is dipped in the water and put over and draped and when that dries you start painting it. It’s really good to put the dirt and the bushes right into the wet paint and everything sticks pretty good. You can use Elmer’s glue to put the bushes and the various scenery grasses in there. Now to finish up the textures on top of the wet plaster cloth you can pick a tan colored paint or anything that looks good to you to copy the terrain you are working and all the grasses and the bushes are commercially bought. There’s a couple of big manufacturers that make this kind of stuff and you can get fall colors. As you see here, in the little bushes which are sometimes clumps of foam or shredded fabrics and the little yucca trees are made out of. You have to be a little inventive and go to a place like Michael's that has the floral stuff and you can find things like make. Like I was showing you, the little banana yuccas, I did, the little things that look like cacti, of different types. "