Bennett RR: "How We" Series: Model a Grassy Field
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This is the second video in our "How We" series- we won't call it "How To", as it is simply the method we used for this task. Many other methods and options are available. We will show actual hands on work so you can see exactly what we did. Thus the videos may not be cinematic works of art, and may be a bit long and tedious depending on the task!
This LONG (2 hours!!) video shows the making of a small grassy field. This was done somewhat as a self-test. I had a couple scrap pieces of teddy bear fur and decided to see if they could be used. So I grabbed the camera, glued them down, and went to work!
Here are the main materials used for this field:
-Left over "test" pieces of teddy bear fur, from when the larger TBF field was done
-Vallejo #26.218 "Dark Earth" Acylic Earth Texture
-Monster Model Works "Diorama Dirt", sifted into Fine and Super Fine grades
-Scenic Express SE0403, "Fine Natural Soil & Dirt"
-Woodland Scenics #1344 "Burnt Grass"
-Woodland Scenics #1342 "Earth Fine Turf"
Railroad "Dirt" accumulated from along the real RR!
-Silflor #713-23 Late Summer Cattle Pasture (scrap pieces)
-Silflor #711-23 4mm Late Summer Lawn (scrap pieces)
-Heki #1686 CelluLeaf, medium green
-Heki #1690 CelluLeaf, leaf litter
-Treemendous "Fine Oak Scatter"
-Treemendous "Fine Pine Scatter"
-Heki #1855 Wild Grass Fiber XL, Meadow Green
-Heki #1858 Wild Grass Fiber XL, Mountain Meadow
-Polak #5976 flowers, white
-Polak #5985 flowers, white-violet
-Heki Flor #1551, medium green
-Polak #9104 Low Bushes, medium green
-Polak #9224 High Bushes, medium green
-Polak #5908 Wild Bushes, Brombeeren (for weeds)
-Silflor #200-13 Filigee Bushes (many other choices available)
Getting the Polak, Treemendous and Silflor Filigee Bushes is more difficult, but I like these products. I ordered the Polak items from a shop in Germany, Treemendous items from their online shop and Scenic Express special ordered the Filigree Bushes for me from MiniNatur in Germany.
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Treemendous: www.treemendus-...
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Great job 👍...love it, specially if you put an abandoned barn or something...
Great update had subscribed before lost ya some how. Anyway looking forward to more great stuff from your channel Thanks for sharing
WOW....LOVE IT!!!!!! Could watch you work all day! Just WOW!
Very Cool!!! Great Idea on going about this...
You have turned me onto the most beautiful place to want to model. I went to the Google Maps of Lake City, Pennsylvania and found the exact field that You are showing in this video. I really like places like this, that are sparse, but yet most interesting and offer a challenge. Those old buildings up the line would be great to model, especially the old corrugated metal rust bucket. It looks like an old foundry. I also really love the pink brick building with the arched windows by the old grain elevator. I think one could do an entire section of a layout just modeling this stretch of track and the old siding. That old track reappears from the grass way down the line, close to the next crossing. Thanks for showing me this gem of an area. I was through Erie the end of May this year on Amtrak, heading to Buffalo, Albany and New York City.
some times I start watching your how we videos and think you have fallen off a rocking chair. but watching, and learning, you do amazing work with things that the average modeler would never think of. I just want to say thank you. for taking the time to film, edit, and put out all these videos. you do the community a great service
Thanks Sparky, and I am sure I have fallen off more than one rocking chair...
Both Sjh Hartford and Wayne M nailed it on the head, your work is beyond anything I have seen before and no the videos are not to long. Like others, I get more out of a full length so I get to see all that went on with the project. It's worth the time if you want your railroad to take on the look and feel of the real thing!!! Watched the "How-We Ballast" went home and started ballasting, WOW it simpler now and looks real slick. Got a ways to go before scenery, but got a "How-We" to help me along with that phase of the layout. I can't thank you enough for these videos, keep them coming!! Much appreciated and Much Respect!! Truly honored to be a subscriber!!! Looking forward to more Stephen D. Muse
Thanks Dave. Our hope is that some bits of useful information are passed on from these videos. If they help people, we will keep doing them!
Please do so!! I really have learned and enjoyed them at the same time. I can't/or won't try to speak for other's but this has been one of the best little series I have found to watch and learn from right along with Tom from Tom's Trains and Things and Kathy Mallet!!
Absolutely fantastic! I like when you speed up the repetitive parts and add the music - nice touch. Here are my random thoughts on what I have learned from watching you work. If you want high quality scenery, you must spend the time to do it right. Layer-on-layer is the secret to blending dissimilar colors and materials. I have heard and read about “texture” and “layers”, but seeing you do it in real time has driven it home for me - now it all makes sense. Early in the video I was wondering how the heck you were going to blend the very different shades (or tones) of green you started with (e.g., the light yellowish-green teddy bear fur with the darker green scenery materials). Later in the video you showed how you do it, and the final result is very natural looking. I always knew that the key to realistic scenery is to use a wide variety of materials, but I never understood the order to do things in, nor what thought process went into it. Now, after watching you transition that scene from bare plywood to a realistic scene, I feel confident to try it myself. And especially hearing you think out-loud as you work helps me to understand the reasoning behind every action. You are to model railroad scenery as Bob Ross was to painting landscapes. It is fun for me to watch a master at work. Thank you, and keep it up.
Thanks Jack, and you summed it up very well. One other item I have learned- scenery is VERTICAL. Too often one sees horizontal scenery such as clump foliage used for bushes. Careful looking at the real world will show how vertical things are- underbrush, weeds, grass, bushes, etc. And I loved watching Bob Ross! That is a blast from the past!
Jack Cutler well said Jack.
Rob, I have binge- watched the videos of your layout from conception to present. Great layout!! My Daughter and I are in the planning stages of our own. Keep the vids coming!!! I am now watching the "how we" videos. Great work. I'm learning a lot.
Thanks Paul. I am glad these videos are helpful!
Amazing! Now the real challenge, if you're up for it, is incorporating realism to the main lines which seem antiseptic and sterile next to the highly detailed and weathered spur. Prototypical main lines have growth in between them. That's a huge challenge I know
Wow, another great "How We" video! It was amazing to watch you take those two patches of fur that you weren't happy with and bring them to life. You are an artist in 3rd. Thank you for the inspiration and for all the other things you bring to the hobby.
JL&SH
3D* lol
Well, I thought 3rd place and that isn't so bad! LOL. Thanks for watching.
I just gotta say, man, the more ya did the better it looked. I couldn't believe the end result from the beginning of the video. Thanks for posting. I did fast forward a few times, LOL. Ya need to work on the other side of the main lines. To the left of the electrical box I would suggest you make a mud puddle. And I'd keep that building. It looks fantastic with the old weathered box car.
Just want to tell you that it is really great and entertaining to see these videos and the end result is outstanding!
Love all your videos. Have learned so much watching them. Thanks for doing them. You can really see your love and passion for the hobby show thru. Your layout is the stuff model railroad dreams are made of. Keep it up and God bless Rob.
Great video Rob. just brilliant use of a variety of materials. I suppose the real trick is to know when to stop. I'm looking forward to getting to this stage on my layout. I'm still at the track laying stage and building some structures. I don't think the video is too long. It shows the process in real time and includes a lot of detail that would be missed if shortened. I'm in Sydney Australia so youtube really is a global tool. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the great work.
Watching this and hearing the 'Ideas as I go' method of building a scene up the question of divisions comes to mind, I had this with a layout I built a few years back for a friend and came across the problem of filling an area with no obvious way of dividing it from other areas, What I came up with came from the depressed industrial state in our area, Lot's of semi-derelict industrial sites that had once had rail links and as such had acquired a supply of sleepers, 'Ties' to you, which had been used to build fences using the rails as vertical and horizontal supports, very effective dividers to scene fillers.
And not a single grade crossing killed in the making of this video, Great work
It was close a couple of times...but so far, so good!
Hi ! Don't worry, it is always a pleasure to (teddy) bear with you ! :P Great result again (this variety is a key point to get something really nice). And your "hoo-hoo" is funny :) Cheers !
Very nice. I DID watch the ENTIRE video, as well as your other "how we" series videos. Excellent job on all. Thank you for your time.
Thanks Tim. Hopefully these are somewhat helpful to folks as they endeavor to create their own scenery.
For sure! Somebody like me, who watches a lot of "how to" or "how we" videos, really must appreciate those of you who spend all your time making those videos.
Brilliant, Rob. Thanks for making the effort. You are a rock star, m'Man. I learned a lot from this. Cheers.
Excellent video - again, relaxing to watch, with an outstanding outcome. Keep up the good work.
Took me a few sittings to get through the whole video, but well worth it. I love the layout as a whole, but your modelling and landscape modelling skills and attention to detail are awesome. My layout is largely industrial with very little greenery. This is what I come here to see. Superb work as always.
Awesome video! Love the old forgotten track, adds a great story.
Very nice work. That building look great on that area.
That was great. Thank you. Looks real good. You gave me ideas and options I did not think I had. Thanks you.
Great tutorial mr Bennett ,very inspiring to see a perfectionist at work with a brilliant outcome ,thanks for the vid ,regards john from uk
Wow, I'm very impressed. For my sisters HO, she uses some black and white sand from dollar tree plus a little oversized chicken grit from a seperate store and that black sand from dollar tree. You do have a detailed layout.
Also yesterday I caught NS 098 with the GE exports that took the Youngstown Line. I did upload the video to my channel which is my latest video.
Looking good
Great video and I really enjoy watching your progress with the layout. I've watched all your videos from the beginning and it's amazing how the layout comes to life with the right techniques. I also follows, among others Luke Towan and Everard Junction. UA-cam is really a fantastic global tool for sharing information in this regard (as others have mentioned in the comments). I live in Denmark. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.
Denmark- awesome! Glad to have you along. And Luke Towen is one of my inspirations as well- truly fantastic modeler.
Like always, an amazing job! Love the level of detail you capture in your scenes.
OMG I just watched a 2 hour video on UA-cam ......and LOVED it. You guys really smashed some UA-cam "rules"! Great job keep them coming! I can't wait to try some of those products on my layout when I get to scenery, now that I see them being installed I think I can definitely use some in N Scale. Thanks!!
LOL, yeah it is long but hopefully helpful. Thanks for watching!
thank you learned a lot from this most enjoyable 🙂
very well with it and you had gave me some more ideas and look forward to your net cap Ride video on the layout again awesome work
Doing some great work there, can't wait to see you start on the other areas like the staging yard.
This is one of the best of your videos!
Turned out really nice.....like the old car setting there
Fantastic work. Makes me want to model a big field.
Great "how we" video. You have great talent for scenery work! Watching these videos has answered many questions I had about the ground cover products available today. I already have some good ideas.
The building actually looks quite appropriate for the type of area you are developing.
Regards;
Mike
Awesome video!!! Many thnx! Greetz from Holland.
you take Model railroading into an art form. thanks
Stephen, watched your latest video with my wife this morning. She commented that she'd love to see some of the other scenic area's of your layout. I was thinking, instead of going back to find other videos, a "drive by" of others completed areas might be a great way to end your episodes. Just a suggestion. I've followed from the beginning. Layout is amazing! Stephen Shomo
Amazing Stephen! A work of art!
great details, let's see a frieght train roll by
Amazing job looking very very good👍👍👍
Top work Stephen!
Loved it..
you are a true master!!! great video
you are a true detail master
Amazing job
very nicely done.
Rob, I know you are a fan of the European layouts for the level of realism and attention to detail they lavish upon their layouts. The Germans in particular are very good at this.
But there is one British layout that I think trumps(excuse my language) them all. It is the Hope Diamond of railroad layouts.
If you do not already know about it, I highly, HIGHLY recommend checking out the Pendon Model Railway Museum.
Another great vidieo, too long`naahhhh.... t is great artistry you do here with the layers of the material. By the way that building in the end looked pretty mich
like home there, I hope I hope that you kept it as it might be needed at the Sharon Industroal area now,
Looks very good
[thank, you for youre great helpful video]
Rob another outstanding "how we" so realistic if I didn't know better I would have thought it was the prototype picture....i really enjoy your narrative and the way you explain your thought process...I learned more from this one video than I've learned from the other hundred I've watched...have you done a video on how you weathered that freight car, looks very realistic btw the building looks very good there...ty for the tips keep them coming
Thanks Tom. I can't take credit for that boxcar- I bought it off Ebay. I wanted to have at least a few weathered cars and I just don't have the time to do it now, so I picked up a couple "pre-weathered". Eventually I'll get to weathering all the rolling stock and locomotives- some day!
Personally I kinda like the building there at the end of the video.
Great video ~
This is a great video and been following your channel and have a question for you and it is have you made a video on how you did your yard. Your modeling skills are super and love how you blend everything together. Thanks for the video you shared with us.
great video
Nicely done! What, precisely, is the teddy bear fur? Where does one get the same fur that you use? Looks a lot easier than static grass.
wow long video! however it does show the work you put in... to about 2sq ft? I take my hat off to you! great stuff
Tell me about it! You are correct, that area would be a tad over 2 sq ft. All told it took about 3 hours.
looks good to me
What do I think? It's great. I would have called about halfway through, but that because of economics. I think I should rename my proposed layout "The Secondhand Railway". Yes, I watched the full 2 hours and a bit. Martin. (Thailand)
I loved your work. Which camera do you use? Thanks
The field really came alive, as the varied colors and textures were added. That path will continue on down over the adjacent embankment? These "how we" videos could be shorten, without any real loss? I skipped over numerous 20-30 minute sections without feeling like I missed anything. Thanks...nice work.
Yeah, don't worry you didn't miss anything, just me babbling. Ok seriously, I am new at this but will work to shorten the videos without sacrificing important details. It is a fine line, one I am still working on!
awesome.....
Rob in the far end of the field close to the tracks, why don't you put remnants of a Watertank. You could have the old concrete footings that is remaining from the watertank. Hey what about having a standing water puddle or two around the field?
Hi Rob. Another great video. Any chance that you do not show the competed scenes in your title? It spoils the surprise! Thanks for sharing.
Great job ! Are the curves elevated ?
I have a question. Why did you worry about doing the dirt before you put down the darker green matting? (45:00 mark)
Couldn't you have just put all the matting down first then done the dirt to blend it all together? It would have some time and materials coz you wouldn't be going back over what you have already done.
I do love your work though, very detailed and informative
Nice
THANKS LONG VIDEO AS SHOWING GREAT IDEAR WAY DO THINGS ON LAYOUT
wher do you get 3&1glue thanks again Richymopar nice job with your train layout
It is available at Scenic Express, but I have also seen it at Walmart and Hobby Lobby. It may also be available at Micheal's, AC Moore, Joanne's, etc.
Did you spread out those ties to make the track look like a less used industrial spur? The ties look more spaced out.
Yes- going down the piece of flex, 3-4 ties were removed in spots along the length then the remaining ties were re-positioned to give a larger spacing.
Nice job. This scene looks great. What kind of flex did you use?
How much you want for that building
Poor teddy ,you skinned him .
Where do you get your Polak stuff from? i looked online and refuse to pay over $30 for shipping.
From the link in the description. But you are going to pay, unless someone offers it here in the USA.
PS The Teddy Bear Sacrifice was not for nothing. What a way to be reincarnated!!! LOL
Beautiful work Rob. Great demonstration of scenery building. I understand the method of layering, but have only covered this method on Platform1MRC as photographs, not video. If you don't mind, I would like to share your video on platform1mrc.com
Cheers, Gary.
Thank you Gary. You certainly are welcome to share the video. I appreciate that you feel it worthy enough for sharing!
Maybe some Led Zeppelin for background music? lol
Jeezus ......the heavy breathing is distracting. For cripes sake move the speaker away from mouth ..... jeezus ....