Also added a fire hydrant and more workers in different areas. That should be about it for major buildings in this industry. I will continue to add details here and there as well as the static grass around the scene. (Later tonight.) I really like the way it turned out.
Haha, that's funny: Here in northern New Mexico, those colors would be perfect right out of the box. In fact, I took a Rix quonset hut and painted it aluminum with blue windows and door--because that's exactly what's down the road a ways.
LOL...well, I may have ruined it then! Thanks for sharing that. Goes to show there is a prototype for 'almost' everything.
I went static grass happy. One thing I have learned....Dont be afraid to go back over an already sceniced area. These hills had a mismatch of colors that always kinda bothered me, so tonight I evened the colors out.
Here's the areas I really went down to add static grass. This area behide the old boiler house and up the hill......
I also got some of the connecting benchwork started and hopefully I will have it completed tomorrow. I only have till Tuesday off, and Tuesday I will be chasing SOU 630 from Chattanooga to Knoxville so no layout work on that day!
Jerry, please excuse my question from pure ignorance. What is "Static Grass", and how can I do it? I love the look it creates, though my application would be more yellowish like open fields in late summer. If you could link me to a thread or website, that would be fine. Thanks, Hank
Hank, I use the Noch Static Grass Applicator like this one.... http://www.micromark.com/NOCH-GRAS-MASTER-STATIC-GRASS-APPLICATOR,9293.html You can do a search on this board and many have homemade ones at much cheaper a cost. You fill it with static grass and turn it on. (Battery powered.) It charges the grass and you have a nail in the scenery like a ground and when you add glue and move the applicator over the area the grass comes out standing straight up into the glue. Very easy to do and the results are very nice! I usually go over the area I did with a vacum to manipulate the blades even more.
That would be a great Christmas present Hank! I think you will be very happy with the results, and like I said, it's really very easy to use.
Lovely static grass! Just FYI (mostly for Hank and others who don't already have one), you can build your own with a negative ion generator for about $20. Or with an electronic fly swatter for under $10. I hear the neg ion generator one works very well. I built the bug zapper one and you have to be pretty close to the ground for it to work, but works fine for me. Just make sure you cover the grounding pin with electrical tape so you don't accidentally touch the charged net with it and ZAP! a big surprise and all your static grass goes flying everywhere (it only took me six or seven time to figure out to put electrical tape over the t-pin I use for grounding. duh.) Jerry: another good trick is to take a flat-blade screw driver, tweezers, or even your finger and push sections of grass this way and that so everythings not uniform and looking like astroturf (not saying yours does). Mixing different color grasses together before you apply helps break up (subtly) the uniformity as well. The scene's really coming together! Looking forward to seeing more!
