Very nice scoring on the portal. Your patient work really has produced a wonderful focal point in the garden

a beautiful set dear Tom some years i ago i was a follower of yours but with another channel i hope you have pleasure and time to share your videos with me all the best alberto,italy 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Excellent tutorial!

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Cool train but quite noisy...

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[thank, you for youre great video]👍

My wallet is my limit XD nice vid :)

great job , wear you find the locos please

Just found this .....very helpful. Have you a vidio on how you use the paint to color the foam?

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

Please show how you color the foam.

What a great idea. I bought the blue Paddington set made in Vietnam and a separate Express with extra track. I removed the motor from the Paddington train and swapped over the bodyshell from the Express. I found an adhesive printed coach set on eBay which I am changing the carriages, however the couplings aren't compatible with the other sets so a bodge was needed.

what RC you use

Thank you for this tutorial I did it last night worked great

This is awesome. All stuff I already have.

Hand held cams sucks

That would be good for a graveyard scene I'm making

Thank you, really brilliant idea!

Marvellous

I'm late to the party! thanks for sharing I will be doing my foliage asap.

A good model loco to try is the Scientific Toys , Pacific Pennsylvania 3691, RC with sound and smoke

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Hello Tom I’m sure I’ve commented on this before if I haven’t brilliant. Hope you’re still out there and well. Regards Fred 👌😎☕️

The cheapest way to get your foam material is to get hold of an old chair seat, lounge chair or foam mattress and you don't need to outlay any money for raw materials. The age of the material makes tearing it up easier. I colour it with the same paints shown in the video but I have a dedicated cheap coffee grinder to do my mixing in. I don't use water. I add the paint straight from the tube to the foam in the coffee grinder and it is evenly distributed over all the foam. Drying time is minimal and if any clumping occurs, it can be fixed by another quick whiz when dry. If while drying the batch is lightly pressed together in a tray, it is easy to break it into whatever size clumps you might want to use. I usually add about 5 drops of bright yellow to 1 of ultra marine blue and because of the somewhat random measuring of the paint, there are slight variations in colour of batches. I mix them together and thereby get slight colour variations throughout the whole lot. When sieving the last remains I give it a firm rub over the sieve and usually manage to get a considerable amount extra of the fine flock.

Use a beard trimmer!

the price of that is disgusting. thanks for this video

What trees are you using? Looks like a dwarf of some kind

Where did you get this lime moss?

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This was exactly the type of video I was looking for. Thank you.

How Do you paint your base materials after the grinding of the sponges I was lost

Love the idea. I just prefer spraypaint (clear or any other colour instead of hairspray. The scatter seem to stick better with spraypaint than on hairspray. Hairspray tend to loose its tack after a while.

Like cheap car sponge for clump/ground cover...forget the crazy drill and scary wire brush attachment ... add a little water to the kitchen blender...you end up with fine cut product that can have plaster of paris added for modrock effect or acrylic paints for green ground cover using the sponge. DITCH THE DRILL!

Hi.great video. I'm going to make them aswell.thanks.

Thank you. Now to try it.

You showed what colors you use? but not how you colored the foam before you grind it all up.

With all that extra track you could get to my house. Western Australia 😊

What scale did you use for the train to go along with lemax stuff?

Thanks for your video. I have been using fine saw dust from a local saw mill and stain it with clothing dye. I've used acrylic paint and mixed on the sawdust. Does the same job.

Just what I’ve been looking for thanks.

So darn happy that I stumbled across your channel over the weekend! It just so happens that I collect antique kitchen gadgets, small appliances etc. and I just happen to have two of these meat grinders 🤭 **score** I am brand new at this and that’s how I found your channel so I have nothing to compare it to, but I certainly cannot wait to give this a try because I love your results !! ❤

Wow that is awesome I just subscribed I’ll be watching for more

And safety glasses

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Cheers dude. What's a quid??? You Englishers sure do talk funny. I think I'll be using the batting out of some old pillows. Cheers & 73 from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee

I model on the cheap. I make all my own ground scatter (flocking) out of either sawdust that gets coloured in the electric coffee grinder my wife gave me for modeling, or foam rubber done same way in the coffee grinder. That way you can control the colours and the granularity of your finished product. I also make my own iron oxide (rust) by soaking about 4 pieces of 0000 steel wool in a quart jar with white vinegar. After about a month sitting in the window, I pour the mixture into a large pan (I use my old 11" x 14" stainless steel photo fixer trays when I had a darkroom) or baking dish and wait for the mixture to completely dry (usually about 2 to 3 weeks). Then I take a single edge razor blade and pulverize the contents into a fine powder and store it in little tins. Each batch I've done comes out a little different in colour. Then you use the rust as you would any weathering powder or chalk. It looks real, 'cause it IS real rust! I also colour my own chalk with acrylic paint and food colouring. I never buy weathering powders. Instead, I go to the dollar store and buy women's makeup in the little plastic containers. For $1.00 you can get quite a collection of different colours and they adhere better than weathering powders. For trees, I use the Nandena bush after the little red berries fall off, it leaves a perfect tree trunk (armature). I also have a TON of lichen growing out back on the hill behind my house. When using the Nandena bush tree armatures, you can paint them whatever colour you want--even grey for aspen trees. Cover the armatures with lichen, seafoam or whatever you want, then add your own home-made flocking and you're done. For pine trees, I use florist wire (wrapped) doubled and bits of jute cut in 1 to 1 1/2" laid in the wire, then using a drill, twist the wire while holding the other end in a pair of pliers.. I also use barbeque bamboo skewers with pig hair (horse hair) furnace filters (they're already green); have to paint the skewers first. And I never use spray paint since I use my airbrush for all my painting. I can use either acrylic or oil base paints; I usually use one airbrush for acrylic and the other one for oil base paints. Cheers from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee

I lit up a REA (Railway Express Agency) coach with LED lighting. I made my own pickups out of some scrap copper I salvaged from an old computer. I used the strip LED lighting (3 LED's per cut) with about 12 LED's, a mini full wave bridge rectifier and a 3300uF capacitor for flicker free non directional lighting. With strip LED's they have the ballast resistors already built into each 3 LED sections. I had to paint some yellow acrylic paint over the bright white LED's to tone down the lights. Now it looks like old timey yellow light. My wife said it looked more natural with the yellow lighting. Cheers from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee

For coal loads on my model trains, I use, well, real coal. I have a large chunk of bituminous coal I smash into bits with a hammer (usually done outside); when it gets about HO scale size I quit and collect it and use it for my steam train tenders, coal loader, coal bins, etc. Nothing like using the real stuff. Cheers, mate, from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee