Hi Eric, thank you for sharing your brilliant method for creating foliage. Interestingly, our drier shares the garage with the SR layout and it does get some use in the winter months. I might just give your method a go.

That's the fun I find in railway modelling is what can I appropriate for the layout. And of course the cloths are fresh out of the pack.

There'll most likely be more No8 moments at Station Road, as I'm always looking for alternative ways of doing things.

Many thanks for your kind words, greatly appreciated.

Thanks John for your feedback. I often find myself trying to find alternative ways of doing things, particularly with materials at hand that also can be more cost effective.

Ah yes, the Scotch-Brite scouring pads, cut into strips, these make a good base for hedges then topped with scatter material.

Thanks Paul. I have used green synthetic dye in some areas of the hillside grass and it does give another colour effect. As you mentioned, the dye works well as a base colour which I have then applied the usual paint process over the top.

Great video. Just hope I can get those dish cloths in the UK.

Brilliant, I never imagined my videos would have other uses.

Thank you Stephen for your kind words. The dish cloths vary between supermarkets, different brands, and the orange cloths I found at Bunnings.

Interestingly I have tried PVA on this particular foam and it takes forever to dry and doesn't hold very well. I think the dense foam almost makes the join air-tight and thus doesn't allow the PVA to dry quickly.

Thanks for your feedback. That is a drawback to using found/alternate materials. Another example I've come across is the ground pumice I use for ballast - it not readily available elsewhere.

The styrene foam sheets I used to buy from Bunnings but I actually learnt yesterday they are no longer stocking the product line. If you're lucky, your local Bunnings might still have some in stock (which they're selling at a reduced price). It's called Knauf ClimaFoam® Extruded Polystyrene (XPS) Insulation and comes in different thicknesses and sheet sizes.

@@StationRoadModelRailway thanks mate, will take a look at miter10 then if Bunnings used to carry it.

I can't decide what I'd prefer, a static grass applicator or men's cologne (what my wife gave me last Christmas). Curiously my wife has never given me anything model railway related (except for a Thomas the Tank Engine dinner plate), and I'm guessing it might be like buying a present for my mistress. The Peco applicators sell for $160 (£80) at my local model shop, hence why I made my own.

Station Road Model Railway hi mate my peco grass applicator was £49 from a model shop in england so I have beem told we known longer have a model shops in Belfast now they closed 3 and 2 years a go we do have hobbycraft at the abbeycenter shopping centre but it does not cater for model railways I buy most of my railway materials from hattons of Liverpool hobbycraft do have model tools and humbrol paints but the railway paints have to come from England known one in N.lreland sales them here now I use railmatch and lifecolor for my rolling stock clive

Hi Clive, that's interesting. It confirms my suspicions that my local model shop is over-pricing items. Recently I have been purchasing stuff from Rails of Sheffield (UK) because even with international freight, it's cheaper than buying locally in NZ.

Station Road Model Railway hi mate i have just been whiching the new series of Doctor who on BBC 1 mate yes rails of Sheffield is a shop I have got stuff from to they are ever good to mate i got my transfers from Fox transfers or railtec transfers I find some model shops on the expensive side even in the UK goodbye for now Clive

It’s available at Bunnings, I’m guessing NZ wide and possibly also Bunnings in Australia.

Station Road Model Railway brilliant, thank you; am based in AKL. Cheers.

As luck (or foresight) would have it, I purchased my own cloths. It's the sieve on the static grass applicator she doesn't know about.

Station Road Model Railway I won’t tell her!

Yep, the old fly swat and sieve is a perfectly acceptable method of static grass application, and there's plenty of videos on KZfaq that show how to make one.