Home Page › Forums › Modeling the Missouri Pacific, Texas & Pacific, etc › Mopac or Texas & Pacific layouts › Mopac Bagnell Branch › Reply To: Mopac Bagnell Branch
@Patrick wrote:
The static grass makes that layout great. I need to quit being “chicken” and do it too.
Pat,
Fellow model railroader, Clark Propst, commented to me in an email once the two biggest enhancements to our hobby has been DCC and static grass. I tried static grass a couple of times and they were complete failures 1) I was using the applicator to far away from the surface so my ‘grass’ wasn’t standing up and 2) my mixture of water and glue was too thin so the grass would settle in it and wouldn’t be able to stand up.
Once I figured out to hold the applicator 1 1/2″ from the surface and get a mix of 60% Elmer’s glue and 40% water things started coming together. I also learned to combine several different grass colors and lengths so the layout didn’t end up resembling a putting green when it was done.
The last trick I picked up from Jason Klocke is to spray the static grass with hair spray and sprinkle some Woodland Scenics Fine Turf onto the wet hair spray. The turf will naturally collect on the top of the grasses and resemble seed heads on weeds. You can also add flowers using this method using yellow or white flowers sold by Scenic Express.
