Techniques for Spectacular Scenery 1: Scenery Base

By MRA Editors

In this session you will learn the importance of a good scenery base. You will get an overview of several different types of scenery base and a variety of materials used in building them. Considerations for planning your scenery will be discussed. You will see a demonstration of two of the most common and popular types of scenery base and how they are constructed.

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17 Responses to “Techniques for Spectacular Scenery 1: Scenery Base”

  1. Pamela Bambula

    That stuff works great

  2. Pamela Bambula

    Your drawing was great. Need to hold it up so we can see what you are talking about. Also, how did you build and attach the 2nd deck to the layout behind you? Be interesting to know.

  3. ALAN

    Excellent! Never thought of thinking ahead with a sketch. Thank you Ron.

  4. NORMAN

    Excellent start! I have used a lot of plaster cloth and it never occurred to me to rub it and fill in some of the holes. Shame on me!

  5. Casey

    They do make strips of plaster cloth versus the rolls. We make splints out of this material when we don't want to place a circumferential cast around a limb. Also there is a quick dry and a slower drying plaster cloth.

  6. Ross Hunter

    I'm glad Ron finally held up his drawing so we could see it. It was very frustrating when he was describing the drawing, but it was flat on the foam.

  7. Joseph W Navratil

    Thank you great video looking foward to the next one.

  8. Don

    Scenery 1 was very good. Looking forward to session 2.

  9. Don Schaupp

    working on three layouts: O scale, HO scale, and N scale

  10. Carmen

    The class was excellent thank you