Retitled: Jordan's Hymek....
Phill Dyson said:
....slightly off topic, but could you tell me about some of the scenic effects & how they were achieved ? such as the tufts of long grass, the creeping ivy , the bushes & the bricks in the derelict building please ...
I was just going to refer you back to the layout thread for
Withyn Reach, but looking back at it myself I seem to have skipped the "basics" of the scenery, so to answer your Q's here...
The base of the greenery on the embankments is expanded polystyrene, with some filler and primed with PVA, which was then painted over with green, brown & yellow acrylic paints, mixed up any old how. I think I sprinkled some Woodland Scenics ground foam over this too. The really wild-looking grass is hanging-basket liner (available from ?1 shops), cut & teased out and stuck with PVA. It didn't need any further painting or other treatment. Pretty much everything else is from
Woodland Scenics;
The straighter grass clumps are 'Field Grass', the bushes 'Clump Foliage', ground cover 'Fine' & 'Coarse Turf', the "creeping ivy" is 'Foliage'.... all these products are linked to from that link above, and all readily available in the UK, though mostly from Shops that dabble in The Dark Side... :twisted:
As for the 'brick rubble' in the derelict building, that was made with...
brick rubble, of course...
:lol:
I kid you not; I crushed a chunk of old brick up and glued the resultant mess in place with dilute PVA, adding in a few bits of balsa wood and coal dust for good measure.
The 'water' in the cut is just several coats of gloss varnish over black paint, and most of the 'reeds' are paintbrush bristles.
Hope that helps!! :wave: