Customer Success Stories of Miscellaneous Projects
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I have attached a picture of a very small diorama I am building to showcase a model I am scratchbuilding. I am sending it because I used Woodland Scenics ground foam and ballast and thought that you may like to use it on your website.
Diorama under construction for a scratchbuilt model of a modern Amtrak station. Track is from Micro Engineering,scenery consists of Woodland Scenics ground foam and ballast. Other scenery is by Faller and Smalltown USA
Modeling and photo by Matt Liverani
Take a look at Steve Arnold’s WWII layout. He sure has captured the war torn realism of northwest Europe. His battered scratch built structures are amazingly realistic and he has set some very interesting scenes with intricate detail! Thanks for sharing, Steve!
I’ve been modeling from an early age, mostly self taught but picking up the odd tip from time to time. I now feel confident to show some of my stuff...hope you like what you see made possible with the help of Woodland Scenics Products...I’m 43 years old and have been modeling for as long as I can remember, starting with a box of soldiers at about the age of about 4-5years old...it just took off from that. As I got older and able to afford materials, then it really began to look like serious model making.
My main interest is model wargaming...the locomotives used in this diorama are actually British trains, city of Truro built 1912 and the Evening star unfortunately built after the war so is historically incorrect to the keen train enthusiast but to the rest of us a train is a train. The table we use to set up all my scenery is 16ft x4ft but are made to interconnect so if all fitted together the actual size would be about double. My scenery covers just about all terrain type typically seen from woods, fields, rivers and streams to small towns all built with the time-period of 1939 to 45.
The discovery of Woodland Scenics products only came to me in the last 10 years or so and has made a huge impact...having seen the results, some of my older scenery has been revamped using scatters of better quality from your company.
The model is an ongoing project...just recently incorporating a railway into it. Although the railway is not a running layout all the other detail is here with a view that one day it may become a running model layout. All the buildings are scratch built from plasticard...trees made from twigs found, then branches drilled, pins fitted inside then fitted to main tree trunk. Many of the soldier figures have also been altered by changing legs, arms etc from their original stances to make look more individual.
I send to you some kinds of rocks in colors These rocks are produced by myself. I (also) send you a model of a small Columbian town. The houses I made are part of the real situacion in Columbia.
Manfred Claus, Bogota, Colombia
WOW, the Scenery Kit was great! I just finished mine, it came out great especially considering I'm artistically challenged. I bought my kit about 15 years ago but with working for a living I never seemed to have time to build it but now that I'm retired (I retired at 53 because I could...not because I had to) I put it together this Winter. The instructions and video were excellent and it's pretty hard to make a mistake. Thanks again for the confidence builder.
Dave Todd
Here are a few photos of our work in progress...N gauge set up. The theme is “Imagine Gardens” with a Victorian style train station being turned into a tourist center for the garden...(we) are still working on the station. There is a cherry orchard with beehives, fishponds and rivers soon to be mountains, hills and farms and hopefully a second tier for a European style village.
Building is dimensional cardboard construction of Monet’s home in Giverny. It just happened to fit our N gauge figures. It is glued to a Styrofoam base, which I painted green, then added a real stone pathway, an upturned bottle cap fishpond and dried and painted (pink and lavender) sedum blossoms for trees, flowers and shrubs.
This is the "Battle of the Bulge" diorama.
Here are some pictures of our dioramas. Of course the "task" (sign) and buildings were made using other materials, as were the blimp and the geometric clouds, The desert scene, and the "seasons" diorama are made from your products.
The waterfall was made with your water effects, all the trees, clumps, foliage, people (except for the two little snowmen that you cannot see in these pictures. I made those out of casting plaster) is your product. We supplied our own wire mesh, casting plaster (for the rock molds) and paint. I really like the last picture of the mountain!
danielavazpour@hotmail.com
…I wanted to send some pictures of a project I completed with the Woodland Scenics Plaster Cloth. Attached are some pictures of my latest sculpture: The Society of Ostrich vs. the Weeble Wabble People. They are on display in a sculpture garden at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. My final goal is to make molds of this sculpture in order to create them in clay: fired and glazed. The originals made in plaster will not last outside…
"... I was directed to your site by another guy doing his costume. Your paints are awesome for making a dirty Storm Trooper costume. They wash off really easy, so I wasn t afraid of ruining my costume. I used Burnt Umber for the base color and just dabbed it on with a 2 x2 sponge. Then I went back with yellow ocre in some random places to give the costume a sandy tinge. I used your raw umber for the carbon scoring (if you were wondering at all whether or not I was a big nerd, the carbon scoring reference should be the give away :). Anyway, thanks for the awesome paints at reasonable prices. This Halloween should be a fun one..."
...I travel for work and spend 95% of my life in a hotel room. For obvious reasons I can't build a layout. I do however build two or three dioramas a year. I use your structures and scenic details quite frequently. Their small size and wealth of detail is perfect for my needs. I have probably purchased at least one of all of them and many of them have found their way onto quite a few diroamas. I also use your scenery products exclusively (although I build all my own tree armatures from scratch). Keep up the good work!...
What could be a better combination...summer vacation, eager kids, a bunch of talented retirees, and the worlds greatest hobby!
Quincy Village, in south central Pennsylvania, is a retirement community that has, for many years, offered creative learning experiences for not only its active and versatile residents, but also for children who participate in an on campus, year round, educational day care program called the Quincy Child Development Center. During the summer months, the QCDC also offers an opportunity for youngsters and "oldsters" to work together on a selected project and this year, something truly special was planned and successfully developed!
Early in May, a call went out from the Quincy Village activities office... "Does anyone have any fresh new project ideas for the children’s summer day care program?" Clif Rau, a new Village resident but long time model railroader, had something new and different in mind.Clif had just received a sales flyer from Walthers Terminal Hobby Shop. Having seen the advertisement for the Woodland Scenics GRAND VALLEY LAYOUT KIT, he realized he had a great response to the intergenerational program question and promptly made the following suggestion: "Let’s get the seniors and kids together and build a model railroad!"
Photos courtesy of The Record Herald
"...I would like to thank you for your wonderful products. My father and I did a lot of HO model railroading before such products were available--it was a long process to make tunnels and other parts of the layout. You have made it a joy. This note however, is to thank you for a different use of your products. I am the pastor of a church with a large nativity set...the figures are 21" tall and we needed a new stable. I decided that rather than spending thousands on purchasing a special stable, I would go back to my model railroad days and create landscapes--my only problem has been finding stores in my area with enough Plaster Cloth! The layout used two of your mountain landscape kits and an additional eight rolls of Plaster Cloth---with two more rolls needed to finish. I found your site to try and track down hobby stores in my area--thank you for that info--my search for the rolls begins tomorrow. Now, I'm ready to get back into model railroading before I retire! Thanks again..."
"... I have just finished building and painting your treehouse kit. I have also added people to the scene and animated the swing to go back and forward when the layout is turned on. I am looking forward to the welders and accesories to arrive so I can add my LED flasher which I have built to highlight the welding of metal. I buy all my Woodland Scenics from Acorn Models in Christchurch, New Zealand and am very pleased with the great stock of Woodland Scenics products they have..."
This is my first Diorama...and the first time using your product...all the foliage is from Woodland Scenics. I started building in Jr. High, pretty much did nothing but WW2 war birds...then after building every Monogram war bird they made, I went to armor. I did all the weird ones first, then the rest. When my son was born, that ended that. After he moved out and joined the Navy, all of a sudden I had all this spare time and what’s this…extra money??? After a 20 yr. hiatus, I’m 56, a little bit slower from injuries, but thank God I still have some patience after raising a child as a single parent...I found the Web Forum “Swannys.com” and started reading and then started participating, this is really a great forum, a good bunch of guys. That got the juices flowing again. I’ve never done a diorama before, just made the kits and put them on a shelf.
The first draft was about 12in. sq. then added this and I wanted to try that and the next thing I knew, it was 30 in by 24 in... I usually do take on more than I can chew, but I just started in on corner and went from there.I found out I really like doing the groundwork, that’s where the fun for me is now. The scale is 1/24th and yes, I've had fun showing off the pictures on my iPhone, especially the one looking down into the garage, after a few moments they ask how in the heck did you take that picture...The roofs gone??
The red chest and Valvoline tub came from an accessory kit, the tubs had to be assembled and decals put on...the chest was already red but clean as a whistle. The trashcan came empty and unpainted...it's all the added details and shading with paint and dusting powders that sets them off.
Here’s The Bump, my second diorama;also known as "A man’s castle can be anywhere.”