Showing posts with label scenery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scenery. Show all posts
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Saturday Film Club: Static Grass - The shocking difference!

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Some wise advice from my good self, all hidden behind a thumbnail chosen by one of my rotten colleagues! I will get my own back...
Thursday, March 06, 2025

Dealing with my bald spots

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  No, not the ones my barber insists on showing me in the mirror at the end of a haircut (Why? I've not got my glasses on.) but those a...
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Saturday, March 01, 2025

Saturday Film Club: Using Humbrol Smart Mud

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I had a lot of fun with this one - using Humbrol's "Smart Mud" product to produce a farm track, complete with tyre marks and c...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Brewing up watered-down PVA

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  My jar of watered-down PVA is nearly empty, so it's time to brew up a new batch. The recipie for this most useful of modelling mediums...
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Saturday, July 20, 2024

Saturday Film Club: Modelling a hill

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Another of my old BRM videos has been released into the wild, so I can bring it to you here. From 2017, I attack some expanded polystyrene t...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Making a diorama base

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  For work, I make a lot of small dioramas. These usually have a 4mm thick MDF base, because it's cheap and I just hack a bit off the bi...
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Monday, July 18, 2022

Flat finish grass?

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After my look at The Army Painter Matt Varnish last week , Mark asked:  How do you reckon it would work on scenery? The newly laid static g...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Where's my Nutmeg Spice?

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    In the run-up to Christmas, I ordered some picture fromes from Wilko online. The local branch seems to mostly stock empty shelves and I ...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Festive Film Club: Applying electrostatic grass

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With everyone full of festive food and looking for some non-challenging stuff to watch, I thought I'd pop a few of the videos I've ...
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Monday, November 08, 2021

Save the boating pool!

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  Storage has not been kind to the boating pool on the Handyman Hall Railway. The varnish had developed long white streaks. In a river, I co...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Russell Lupins

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Another quickie practical over on World of Railways, this time making one of my favourite additions to a layout, Russell Lupins. I've us...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Planting model trees

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A little video I recorded while working on a magazine project. With so many channels, we need to generate quick little bits of content alon...
Monday, August 02, 2021

A nice place to fish

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  For my latest Hornby Collectors Club project, I was asked for something with water.  No problem I though, a slice of countryside with a sm...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

PVA water experiments

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  With a project involving water on the horizon, I fancied trying a different method to a commercial product or my usual yacht varnish - and...
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Sunday, March 07, 2021

Video: Making model hedges

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  Another of my BRMTV videos - this time making model hedges.
Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Waste ground

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    In front of the station side road, there is a section of ground with no real purpose. Literally "waste ground", and since this...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Really thick undergrowth

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  For the embankment at Selly Oak, I wanted some really thick, scruffy undergrowth. More texture than static grass alone could offer. The so...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Tidy up the sides

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  This is one of those quick jobs that makes much more of a difference than I had expected - covering the sides of the hill with some nice, ...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Building a hill for a model railway

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 A quick step-by-step guide showing how I made a hill on the corner of my Selly Oak project.  The basis of the hill is expanded polystyrene ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2021

Mud, glorious mud

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    There's quite a lot of scruffy ground on Selly Oak. My normal method of reproducing this involves lots of Wilco "Nutmeg Spice...