Testimonials of Miscellaneous Projects
- Jo Birzes
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.
HO gauge platform transformed into an arbor with patio area with a flower stall and planned food service area. Booths and tabletops are balsa wood. Bench seats, tabletops and arbor are all matchsticks from spent fireplace matches. The HO gauge waiting bench is not a plant stand holding bits of match sticks painted then glued and rolled into ‘flower bases.’ the lavender vines are plastic flower bits.
Steam Era Ladies with their coat sleeves, neckline and skirt painted white to appear summery. The coat shawls were painted pastels and the bonnets to look like a spring/summer wrap.
I bought three plastic buildings at a second hand shop. The one with some landscaping was repainted to resemble stucco and the end had small gravel glued all of the way up, a foam board chimney covered with gravel and an awning plus ‘stone’ walls on each side of the entry plus a bench...later on flower beds and apple trees were added.Coridally,Jo - M. Goodman
This is the "Battle of the Bulge" diorama.
I used the winter kit, the water kit, the rock kit and the Plaster cloth kit to make this. This was difficult to photograph because of the snow. The backdrop is actual photos of the area I modeled, printed out on my printer and glued to the project backdrops that come with the small project base. The entire thing took only a week (that included taking time to build the tanks, detail them and the figurines). Thanks for these kits. They're making it easy to learn scenery techniques I can use on my railroad layout.M. Goodman - Patricia Sowinski - Toronto, Canada
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!
Cheers, Pat - From: Daniel Avazpour, New York, sculptor of The Society of Ostrich Vs. the Weeble Wabble People
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… - Cliff Curtis
"... 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..."
- Ken Olson, Meadview, Arizona
...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!...
- Story by Cliff Rau
Photos courtesy of The Record HeraldWhat 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!"
- Rev. Eric Houseknecht, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Shelby, NC
"...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..." - Jim Luck, Christchurch, New Zealand
"... 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..."