News from your model shop - 26 May 2019

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Last week we were talking about backscenes for your layouts. This week we are going to offer an alternative to backscenes by talking about making hills and rock faces.

 

Many of you will have made hills using a timber frame and chicken wire and adding plaster of Paris bandages or papier mache.

 

There is now another alternative from Woodland Scenics called shaper sheet, just bend into the shape you require, add plaster and job done. It has a silver foil side and a fibrous side when the plaster is added to the fibrous side it sets exactly as you intend it to. Click on the image to watch a video showing how it works.

 

 

 

To add extra realism, create a rock face using Woodland Scenics rock Moulds. Several are available to create all types of rock formations.

 

 

 

These can be used with Hydrocal light, which is a lightweight plaster that doesn't shrink when dry.

 

 

It is recommended to use earth colours which have been specifically formulated to paint realistic rock formations. 

 

 

If you are looking for a faster result (with potentially less mess), try wrinkle rocks from Noch.

Easy to use: just crumple it up, the more wrinkles you have in the sheet the better and simply add it to your layout, stick it in place, and with a bit of foliage, job done.

 

This is a specially designed paper with a photo realistic image of a specific rock type. There are five to choose from:

 

 

 

 

 

Send us an email or give us a call to check availability or to reserve anything, whatever scale you model in. As usual, if we do not have in stock what you are looking for, we will order it for you and you will get it fast (usually within a week if the manufacturer has it in stock). We place weekly orders with most suppliers.

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Upstairs Downstairs is open Tuesday to Saturday 10am till 4.30pm and Sunday 1pm till 4pm. We are closed only on Monday.

Carole, Mike, Nikki and Max

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Isle of Wight
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