Creating Ivy with Martin Tärnrot
Martin TärnrotDescription
In this video, modeler Martin Tärnrot will demonstrate how to create ivy for a scene. Martin creates the look of ivy climbing up a brick wall using twine. For this ivy, he uses kitchen twine, commonly used to tie up a roast before putting it in the oven. Holding it up to the wall to check, he cuts the twine to the length of the wall—three times for three pieces of twine. Then he unwraps the twine, trying to keep in mind what ivy might look like as he partially unravels it. Holding it up against the wall, he can visualize how it will look. To affix it onto the wall, Martin uses a glue for static grass because this type of glue dries matte and transparent. He applies a thin layer of glue onto the wall using a brush and gently presses the twine into the glue, making sure not to press too hard so that the ivy maintains some thickness.
The next piece of twine Martin fully unwinds. This piece will be the carrier for the foliage, which will be stuck on using spray glue. A small amount is sprayed to the twine and Martin adds a Noch product that looks like green foliage. Applying more glue to the ivy already affixed, he adds the leaves he just made.
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Hello! Well, welcome to a Model Railroad Academy video tutorial. Yes. In this tutorial we're gonna model ivies. This is the ivy, made from twine. Climbing up the wall. For this project, I use a kitchen twine. This is commonly used to tie up the roast before you put it in the oven. I just hold the twine against the wall and then I cut it to the same length as the wall is tall. I cut three pieces of this twine. Then it's time to untwist the twine. I untwist it as much as possible in the one hand whilst keeping it intact in the other hand. I try to keep in mind what an ivy looks like on the wall whilst untwisting it. I try it on the wall by just holding it against it. And it starts to look pretty good. Then it's time to fix it onto the wall. I'm using a glue for static grass. The advantages with these type of glues is that they dry matte and transparent. I apply a thin layer of the glue onto the wall using a paintbrush. Then I just gently push the twine into the glue. Not too hard, so it gets all flat, but so it maintains some of that thickness. I untwist fully the next part of twine. This piece and the following will be the carrier for the foliage. The leaves will be fixed to the twine using spray glue. I apply a tiny amount of spray glue onto the twine. The leaves I'm using to create the foliage is a Noch product, item number 7154. Their product looks a lot like green miniature leaves. So I'm just sprinkling those leaves onto the sticky twine. Then turning it and adding leaves also on the rear side. I apply some more static grass glue onto the twine on the wall, just to make sure that the next layer of twine, including the leaves, will stick properly. Avoid pushing too much with your fingers onto these foliage twines, because that will make them look flat and it doesn't look good. So just put them in place and make sure they stick but no more pushing than that. If so, use a tweezer or something. Yeah. Keep adding twines with the foliage until you feel happy with the coverage of the wall. I think this is fine for me now. I hope you liked this free video tutorial. If you did, please level up and gain access to the premium videos here on Model Railroad Academy. See you there.
I love it! Hopefully, I will remember this when I get to the point of decorating my layout. (Currently in the planning stages)
Great idea on wall ivy. Very realistic.