Grass Areas

revitupfasterOGR Forum Member

I'm about to start building a park in my town. The area I have for the park is pretty much a triangle with the one side bordering the main street about 48", and the other side of the park running down a side street about 21", an the third leg of the triangle will run along my "Station" track. The attached picture shows the spot where it will be. (The area to the left of Mel's Diner)

I have the Lionel Carousel, which I will be using as the centerpiece, and I intend to have park benches, walkways to the carousel etc. There will be quite a bit of grassy areas, and prior to this I have pretty much just used the fine turf from Woodland Scenics for "grassy" groundcover. I picked up a shaker bottle of what Woodland Scenics calls "Static Grass Flock", but have never used this before. The stuff seems to have a "puffy" texture to it, and I was wondering if anyone had used this product and what they thought of it.

Pictures of areas where you have used it would be very much appreciated.

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5/26/125:28 PM

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Joe HohmannOGR Forum Member

Since a public area is mowed often, I would avoid anything that has much texture or height to it.

As far as I know, "static" grass needs a special devise to make it stand up.

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TURTLE 2OGR Forum Member

I have a much smaller area for a park. I used the grass paper for mine since I was adding so many items on top of it and around it. It was easier to just cut to the size I needed. This is the only place I have used the grass mat/paper on my layout. There was no problem with grass getting into other areas in the park. I put some of the scenic express "flowers" in "beds"

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revitupfasterOGR Forum Member

Originally Posted by TURTLE 2:

This is the only place I have used the grass mat/paper on my layout. There was no problem with grass getting into other areas in the park. I put some of the scenic express "flowers" in "beds"

WOW!! Turtle 2.....this is exactly what I am going for. I'm going to have to pick up a sheet of grasspaper. Thanks very much for your reply, It never crossed my mind to use grasspaper, but after seeng your park area, It will do the job dfar better than fooling around with spreadable groundcover materials.

I don't like the look of that "static grass" stuff, and couldn't imagine it yielding a nice finished product.

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