Nature is rarely tidy!

It is all very good having a nice level grass effect on your model railway scenery and it certainly changes the look of a layout as I talked about yesterday. However, nature is rarely tidy and where left to its own devices it will do all sorts of things. Mrs. Woody has never let me experiment with letting the garden go wild so my chore list from her includes a number of jobs that in effect keep nature in check within the garden confines. But, when it comes to my model railway I am in sole charge of what happens on that so Mrs. W has informed me! With this independence established I am aware that parts of my series of scenic bases are areas that would have little interference from maintenance operations and so would be left to nature to do what it wanted. How you recreate that on a model is something that has many methods developed by skilled modellers over the years, but being Woody I do have my preferred ones. 

The WMD Stores have, over the years, built up a stock of scenic materials suitable for recreating the wilds that nature creates. Most of these are things that are glued down with neat PVA or dilute PVA spread from above using an old syringe.

I don't have any particular system of creating a wild look but just go along adding as I see fit.

It is one of those jobs where you do tend to go back over areas adding a little more. Usually it is a case of better to add a little than have to take off a lot!

This is what I finally finished with on this scenic sub-base. I like the look but will probably add a little more as I work my way around the other sub-bases.

On the layout it looks far more interesting and hopefully realistic then just plain grass.

I also managed to do another of the sub-bases - really handy being able to work on them on the work bench!

With both treated sub-bases on the layout things look even more different but hopefully good!

Once the track is ballasted it should really look the part!