Using Wire Mesh to Make 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. Another couple of ways of making scales and representing realistically is using aluminum screen wire that you can buy at a hardware store. This particular example shows wooden forms underneath which you then staple the wire over. You can also use cardboard strips, you can staple them and criss-cross them, which gives a pretty good base for holding down your screen wire. And then again, this is done with the plaster cloth, which you can see here and you dip it in water and lay it over. When it dries, you sprinkle on your fine sand and use tan colored paint and use all the commercially available little grasses and shrubs. You can see here we have the fall colors you can put in and there’s many colors of grasses you can use and we try to avoid the things that are too bright, try to get some that are fairly realistic and there’s a lot of ways that you can do it. Just use your imagination and it always comes out. It’s hard to make it go wrong. You can hardly go wrong with plaster cloth. "