01-25-2012, 02:47 PM
OK, it's time for the plaster cloth. I laid kitchen plastic wrap on the already laid and ballasted mine trackage to keep the plaster out of it as much as I can. I use an old kitchen pot for water and scissors to cut the cloth.
You dip manageable-size pieces of the cloth in the water and then drape them on the cardboard web. I don't know if Woodland Scenics has a DVD version of their old VHS scenery video -- I assume they do, or someone else does one just as good -- but you lay it double strength in an overlapping pattern. The lumpy side of the plaster cloth faces up.
Then I use a disposable foam brush to smooth over the lumps so there's a more or less consistent surface:
Next step will be plaster molds.
You dip manageable-size pieces of the cloth in the water and then drape them on the cardboard web. I don't know if Woodland Scenics has a DVD version of their old VHS scenery video -- I assume they do, or someone else does one just as good -- but you lay it double strength in an overlapping pattern. The lumpy side of the plaster cloth faces up.
Then I use a disposable foam brush to smooth over the lumps so there's a more or less consistent surface:
Next step will be plaster molds.