Having stared at the ‘Styrofoam-Central’ for several weeks, I was eager to begin adding some scenery, or at the very least hide the pink and beige contours of the layout’s hills! I started by applying a coat of deep brown craft paint to the hillsides. I’ve read many times that modellers prefer to use a light tan colour as their base coat, but as I was modeling early winter, it seemed only logical to use a mud colour. I waited for the paint to dry thoroughly, and then brushed on a coat of full strength white glue. While the glue was still wet, I applied a coat of Woodland Scenics static grass. Despite what I’ve read, I could not make he grass stand up like real grass no matter what I did! Apparently if you shake and squeeze the bottle of static grass when you apply it, it should in theory stand up strait in the glue, but in my case, it fell flat. I applied enough grass to cover the glue, but not so much that it was opaque. I wanted the dark brown paint colour to show through the grass in areas ‘ to help with the illusion that the normally green grass had matted down into the mud with the change in seasons. I waited for the glue to dry thoroughly before vacuuming up the excess with a shop vac.
