I had a Noch starter kit, which included scatter, static grass, a grass mat, lichen, trees, and other random stuff.

So I took a spare bit of Plywood, and started work.

First of all, I glued down a piece of spare track, and painted it with my airbrush. I used some acrylic Burnt Umber, which was lightened down a touch to make it look more rusty.

Next, I used the age old method of PVA and Water in a 50:50 mix, with some isopropyl alcohol to make it flow.

Next up I laid some static grass. On one side I painted the base first a brown shade. The other side I didn’t bother. I basically wanted to see if it made much difference. It seems it did to a certain degree, but I think the shade of brown I used was a bit too brown, and not sufficiently earth-coloured. The reasoning behind doing it was that it gave a nice base, and didn’t show through as much as just plain baseboard.

I also stuck down a section of Scalescenes road, and edged it up roughly with static grass. Plus I stuck a couple of trees in.

On the whole it looks OK, and makes a good starting point. As it stands, it’s a bit sterile, and needs detail. The details should make it look better.

Not bad for a first attempt though!

Yeah OK, it’s not great. It took me about four hours to put it together, but I was speeding up a lot once I got a feel for how the kit worked, and I was stopping now and then to do other things. One thing I learned was I need to pick up some sort of proper glue spreader/spatula. I was just squeezing out a blob of glue on my finger and smearing it about a bit. Ahh the wonders of PVA!

I intend trying to make some of the bridges in future though. I’ll do a MUCH better job on those.