Gather, Grow and Harvest your FREE Model Materials

in this video we're harvesting and gathering nature materials to create miniature trees and ground covering materials hello and welcome to another video tutorial here on the channel we're celebrating today because of you our viewers just became 100 000 yeah actually 100 000 subscribing viewers so if you're not yet a subscriber subscribe to the channel and we'll uh increase even more you know i i was thinking about it the other day and you know it wasn't all that long since since i had a i kind of had a celebration video for uh reaching 100 subscribers and you know feels like yesterday and uh yeah obviously time is uh moving fast uh when you have fun and modern railroad is great fun so no matter time is passing fast here today we're gonna do something i'm typically doing in the autumns in the late autumn i'm harvesting and collecting gathering materials from my garden and from the neighborhood which i can use for modeling purposes during the winter in my area the raspberry grows everywhere in the garden some places is good but some are not so every autumn we remove a lot of these raspberry bushes and i found that its root is very useful to create magic crumb trees so i just spray some hard beam of water onto the root let it dry and then it's just to start the creative process what i do first here is to apply some wood glue pva glue or elmer construction that's also called ponal in germany apply that on most of that branch looking root parts then i sprinkle in 12 millimeter brown static grass 12 millimeter is half inch i do that pretty richly so i get a good coverage of finer branches i leave that to dry and then i spray the branches only with spray glue in that i sprinkle in 2.5 millimeter brown static grass as soon as you feel happy with that apply more spray glue and sprinkle in leaves i typically use no middle green leaves i place my raspberry root trees in places like this close to this waterfall yeah this trees definitely sticks out from the crowd then i got this really cool post from a guy called magnus new dolm in sweden he's growing his own seafoam and this little fella here is uh uh supervising the uh plantations so here's uh just a few weeks into this was this spring and you see that they already have started to grow then they magnus let them grow over summer and here you see there are autumn leaves on the ground this is somewhere in september he harvested his seafoam and well it's not all that much but hey it's really hardcore to grow your own seed fold seafoam isn't it and here's one of the bushes so go ahead and grow your own seafoam another material you can find richly in the garden and also in the surroundings is spirea i typically pick 100 or 200 flowers and the first action after that is to remove the leaves up in the flower then it will look something like this next action is to remove some of the lower branches and also cut the top away because it's most often too pointy my intention here is to make a beard tree which you guys in the u.s call aspen last pence looks white but they're actually not they're very light gray so we're gonna hit our tree with the light gray paint this is a water-based paint from liquitex which i really can recommend with the spray paint still wet i sprinkle in tiles grout the color this tiles growth is light gray almost white this light gray tile scroll gives us a nice texture for the trunk which is very close to what you see on a beard tree next thing is to hit the foliage with black now important here is that the foliage is painted only black and not the trunk and if possible also try to avoid spray painting the branches with this black paint i know it's very difficult especially with these water-based paints because the pressure in the cans is pretty high but once you worked on it for a while you get a hang of it what i do then is to sprinkle in woodland scenic fine turf in the color green grass and this will give us a nice foundation leave this to dry now properly and then add some spray glue on top of that turf and into the spray glue we're sprinkling no leaves this is the middle green leaves i use for the aspens or the birch trees like this and when you feel happy with the amount of leaves you can mist some more spray glue on top just to make sure nothing comes off let's do some detail painting on that trunk for this i'm using uh acrylic black and white paint and i'm mixing these two to a dark gray shade with this paint i'm basically just painting the branches and that is only the lower branches i'm also painting the trunk in a triangular pattern where the branches is extending from the trunk and i'm also painting similar marks along the trunk where branches has been sitting but fallen off and the result is a kind of like or aspen like tree trunk like this once you get a hang on the process and make a few hundred at the time one of these trees take no more than one minute to complete so it's really a mass production type tree with i think a very nice looking end result but you can also make other trees from the same material meaning this flower and we're gonna make a pine tree this is a european or eurasian type pine tree those trees typically don't have this opaque style foliage so i'm cutting away some of the pieces of the flower here until i feel happy with the result yeah like this and then i'm spraying it with that same type of water-based acrylic paint and into that wet brown paint i sprinkle coffee grounds coffee grounds i i do get a lot of this because i drink a lot of coffee and uh i only put this on into the oven for an hour at 80 degrees to make it dry completely and then i put it in cans like this so what i do i'm just sprinkling that into the wet glue and mist new brown paint over all right so this is what our trunk will look like now let's work a bit on that foliage we're gonna hit that first with the chromium oxide green this is also a water-based spray paint from liquitex and into the wet paint we're gonna sprinkle no structural flock this is a product they have in different colors and this is the middle green which matches the oxide green the top part of the trunk of these eurasian pine trees is kind of orange i mix a portion of white and brown into that orange paint and then i get the paint which quite closely matches the color of those trunks and again this is a very quick method of doing nice looking trees no more than 50 seconds if you do about 100 another very good material for miniature modeling is the bushes from blueberry in the summer they have leaves and berries like this but in the autumn the leaves fall off and that's when we pick our bushes now please check with your local authorities so it's okay to pick these bushes i picked this on my in my garden so that should be okay what i do is i cut pieces which is has the right length and appearance from the bushes and then i add several these together typically two or three what happens then is that the trunk gets too thick so what you need to do is to grind away a portion of the trunk i do that using a knife and then i glue the two trunk pieces together like this however the appearance of the trunk at this point is not so nice so what we do we're gonna wind a few wands of floral tape around the trunk floral tape can be bought in a diy store or in your flower shop this type of tape is not really sticky when you get it like this until you extend it so when you pull in it it will get sticky and you just wrap the trunk with that now the stickiness of this tape will not remain for long so what we need to do is to seal the trunk using fast set glue and did you know that fastest glue actually cures with the humidity in the room so if you want to have a faster process just breathe on it once dry we can trim the foliage or the branches to the outline we desire we're now gonna fix smaller branches onto the branches we already have well we can call it twigs and i fixed them using construction glue this is wood glue pva glue or panel and in spanish spoken areas it's called cola blanca the finer branches so the twigs are made from sea cell rope and this is can also be bought in your diy store and all you need to do is to cut away pieces from that rope and sprinkle into the wet glue the advantage using sea salt fibers instead of static grass is that the sea salt fibers are not exactly straight and also the thickness between different fiber varies uh slightly so you get a kind of natural variance of the twigs in a foliage like this compared to static grass however for the finer twigs i fixed them using spray glue and it's a 2.5 millimeter static grass now i'm spraying the entire tree with the brown spray paint this is also the water-based paint from liquitex and with that done i missed black spray paint into the brown so i get a kind of wet mix and then it looks something like this whilst the spray still is wet i sprinkle in woodland scenic fine turf in the color weed and after that i top with some middle green leaves from noch and the final result looks something like this so not all that bad for only a few minutes of work another material i pick and collect in the autumn is oak leaves we get a lot of these in my garden because we have a large oak or actually several of them so i pick a number of leaves put them in the oven for an hour at approximately 80 degrees celsius and when properly dry i run them in the blender after 20 30 seconds like that i have a brown powder with some also some structural flakes and stuff and this is a very useful type of blend to apply under trees and i typically apply this under all of the trees i have on my layout ahead of placing the tree itself and we're gonna have a look at what it looks like here is a pine tree with oak leaves underneath and you see it gets a kind of realistic look a kind of footprint on the ground but there is a tree so that's what i do in the autumns collect and harvest materials for the modeling during the winter period here and of course you know the species of of plants and and different things he might vary you might not have the same type of bushes and things we have here but this video might anyway give you uh some inspiration of of materials you can gather in the area where you live whatever you have available there and make something similar or something completely different from but anyway it kind of highlights that the materials are out there hey we're mid december already and uh this will be um i will have a due to the circumstances here i will have two weeks of quarantine and then i will go away and visit relatives so i will be off uh camera for like four weeks and be back in january uh and next year we're starting up with uh building a a model railroad a kind of beginners layout plus so it's a bit of a more of a than a beginner's layout really uh it it will allow you or the one who builds this layout to to explore model railroad as a hobby more than you know the standard beginners layouts that only does this so we're starting with that that will be a series of tutorials um with the start in january uh and um hopefully that will give you some inspiration as well to get started unless you haven't stored it yet this um layout i'm i'm building uh is built on ikea tables so you can just pick the tables up there available throughout the entire world and they're super low cost so just assemble the ikea tables and then build the model railroad on top of that and it has a small footprint it's ho scale but you can still fit it in any you know bedroom or living room so i think it's uh it's uh probably a good fit for anyone who wants to get started with model railroading all right so more about that in january uh until that i wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year

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Length: 18min 11sec (1091 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 11 2020