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PVA not much good???
Michael,long before static grass, we had either scatter (ground sponge) or lint. Medical Lint, which now comes on a small roll or folded into a box. It isn't as luxuriant as it once was so you have to be careful how you tease it up or the cloth backing shows. I believe it was Barry Norman who originally suggested sticking it down and then ripping it off once the glue had set, but we never did that at the Ilford club. We had a very big EM layout called Totnes and I was very much the scenery man. Whole cuttings of lint. We used to dye it with Dylon capsules, then lay it as it was, cloth side down and when stuck (usually with Evo-Stik) we coloured it up locally with gouche paints (very matt). Sheep runs and footpaths could be rolled into it with a Dinky toy wheel on a piece of bent wire to flatten it locally while the paint was still tacky, or tease it up with a brass wired suede brush into longer grass, even small weed bushes. Gordon Gravett mentions it in his book on grasslands. I have used it in EM, O gauge and even on a 1/32nd scale diorama of Shelseley Walsh Hillclimb to show off my slot car builds. These days with it being a little sparsely fluffed (aren't we all?) it is definitely advisable to stick it down cloth side down and forget the silly tearing up business.The last lint I got was from ebay. It's under Medical Lint. I have used it on Lantern Yard because when I started that long winded set-piece I hadn't even heard of static grass!
Good luck if you try it.
This has followed me for years and got a bit dusty, but it had to be done. I was missing me mud!
Cheers,
Martin
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Staying on the thread Kevin.
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But what is the grass ?
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Martin
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Oddly playing trains is the last thing I bother with, although I always enjoyed shunting puzzles. Indeed my friend and I would set each other puzzles when in French lessons at school and solve them in our Rough books, rather than write endless stupid mucky sounding French verbs!
To me, model railways are just a very good excuse for scenery.
Martin
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Fake Wolf fur.Toy fur?
Martin
The wolf didn't like it however
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Martin
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You'd be surprised No not me thank you very much.Who the Hell wants to wear, even fake wolf fur? That's like wearing Husky! Of course on a model as long as it's fake something, who cares? Looks convincing and doesn't shine like Waterman's nonsense.
Martin
It didn't come like that.
I trimmed it a lot & then washed it in a bucket of really thinned out grass colour emulsion paint.
Squeezed it out, laid it out to dry & then cut it to whatever shape was needed.
Tony.
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But only slightly! Most weathering is overdone, I think. Just because you can doesn't mean you should!
Martin
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Martin
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I couldn't have used it as it came.Tony, your fake wolf fur does look very impressive. I think the emulsion might have done the trick of dulling it down.
Martin
Far to shiny & the colour was all wrong.
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