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Another weekend !!
Let's see, this weekend, I straightened/sorted out the junk under the layout so I could find what is there.
Now things seem to be sorted out into large 30CM x 30CM x 45cm carboard boxes, each with a label. These can be piled 2 high under the layout. Six of them (cardstock, foam (x2), foil, plastic and wood). Under the layout are three plastic shelving units on wheels. Also three short wooden shelving units for small stuff and a desk/workbench are in place under the layout.
On top of the layout, I cut foam for the rear corners and have decided that one should have a cabin, one a farm house and barn that look too small for N Scale, so will do fine in a rear corner (forced perspective). The third corner will have just a rise with trees. Also the first back corner to the right of the door will have a rise and a farm house on it.
Then on Sunday afternoon, I got out the blender and some old sponges my wife used in the kitchen and threw in a bucket when done...
First I removed the green scour side of the sponge and put it in a draw to be used later in tree making.
Cutting the yellow side in quarters, I tossed several pieces into the blender, along with some very watery white glue and some dollar store green paint. Switched the blender up to "Liquify" and gave it several short bursts until it sounded like it was running smoothly.
Taking a strainer and plastic pitcher, I drained the ground foam and then spread it on an aluminium pie plate to dry.
Each blender load became one pie plate load. Each time I went back to the blender I added more watery glue and a different colour of green paint to the mix. I now have 6 pie plates of various green shades drying nicely.
I guess I did have a busy weekend.
But in all the work, I did not get out the camera.
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Will Annand
Building The Credit Valley Railway
Circa 1900 - N Scale
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Herb Kephart
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Will-
In the past I have ground up foam and soaked it in dye, meant for coloring cloth, but was never satisfied with the results as to either color (limited selection) or intensity.
For some reason, I never considered using paint.
Thanks for the idea. I will have to give it a try once present projects are finished.
For some reason I never clicked on "history" at your site before. The bit with Wiley- my favorite 'toon character- is a real blast!
Herb
Last edited on Mon Mar 16th, 2009 02:40 pm by Herb Kephart
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Herb, if you remember way back to public school art class, you should only need 5 colours.... Red, Yellow, Blue, Black and White.
Seriously, I only use dollar store paints. I use the paint, not the "Liquid Tempera" stuff. I bought some of the Tempera stuff, but only use that in the glue or "Plaster of Paris" mixture for landscaping. Here it does not matter if it does not look great cause it will be covered with ground cover anyway.
I used three shades of green, and added a squirt to each blender load. That way I ended up with different shades from each blender load.
Be creative, use greens, and black and white to change the hue.
Next batch I will try a dark red or brown mixture for dead ground cover.
I did the same thing with four 4L ice cream pails of sawdust aquired from the local Home Depot. The guy would have given me an entire meter high barrel full if I had a barrel to exchange for it. 
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Will Annand
Building The Credit Valley Railway
Circa 1900 - N Scale
http://www.muskokacomputes.com/CVR-Home.html
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I had an oportunity to look back at this thread today and I realised that I had not updated the photo links. :Doh:
I am in the process of updating my CVR website and putting all the photos online in house, so I canceled my Photo Bucket account and just realized that it cut the photos out of my thread. Sorry about that fellows.
It is now back up with the photos showing properly.
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Will Annand
Building The Credit Valley Railway
Circa 1900 - N Scale
http://www.muskokacomputes.com/CVR-Home.html
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that other colors were invented
