Latest video - Gravel roads and lots with budget supplies

I always look forward to your posts.  So much information and easy to use common supplies I've never thought about.

 

Now I have many different places to use the gravel.  Thanks!

Once again, Joey, good information for modeling scenery. Thanks.
Ray.

Very insightful video.

Great video, never knew this existed!!! Nicely done - I can spend my vacation looking at the YouTube videos.

 

Thanks for sharing

Great stuff as always....never would have bought cement mix for my O scale RR!!!

Great presentation as always Joey.

I've been doing scenery almost 50 years and just learned something new.

 

I also had another good scenery teacher (Jon Addison) when I was into HO. 

Here - http://sn3-2016.com/layouts/silvertoncentral.pdf

Thanks all

 

SIRT, Jon Addison and I were friends on Facebook for a long time and I got the chance to meet him in person a few months ago. He is an inspiration and a real nice guy. We hung out and talked trains while we were at the Fine Scale Model Railroad Expo.

Great!

Haven't seen him in about 15 years now since I moved from FL to Nashville.

Learned how to make pine trees in minutes. Used the hair spray trick on my snow scene trees when making the corner module.

His excellent work reminds me of your layout.

Great technique. Never thought about concrete mix or mixing white glue with latex paint.

Who would of thought about using cement mix.  The only question is there anything eles you can use besides hairspray

Hi Joey - Great tip about how to use concrete mix, on our layouts.

Thanks, Gary

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I might try some of these techniques for a gravel parking area I have in mind.

But the best representation of a gravel road I ever saw was by a guy who made one from a belt sander belt, with very fine grain grey color sandpaper. He said making the marks on the road for cars that stopped quickly was incredibly easy, to simply pull non-turning wheels of a model car with the right wheelbase across it...

Great video, Joey...

 

Re the hairspray....   Wouldn't it be prudent to emphasize "UNSCENTED" when talking about its use on the layout???  I learned this....the hard way (School of Hard Knocks, they call it) back in my HO days.  If you simply grab a can of hairspray, your layout might quickly start to smell like a hair salon!!!!  And, believe me, you don't kill that with an overspray of something else!!  You want to be sure to get UNSCENTED!

 

Hairspray became a staple of layout ingredients for me long ago....in the making of trees.  The tree-tutor taught me about other hairspray qualities to seek...like, 'MEGA-hold'...you know, the stuff that guys like Jimmy Johnson, former Dallas Cowboys coach, now NFL game day TV commentator, use to keep that poifect coif when nothing else will...."-do"!   

 

(I get the weirdest looks from check-out clerks when I stock up on that stuff...a drone would never find me while I was standing in a melon patch...if you know what I mean.)

 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

 

KD

 

 

Joey,

Thank you for making this video and sharing with us.  Having just done some concrete work at my home last year, I can quickly envision the concrete mix working great for gravel.

Another great how to and video.  Thanks for sharing.  Nick

hay joe like the video i have to work on a  tight  budget have you ever tried stone dust that what we call it in the hudsonvalley, screen and washed it makes  good gravel  not bad ballast i like the color  keep your videos coming  you all way have great ideas and they are humorous  thanks jack k

Thanks Joey!  Wonderful information!!!  Enjoyed the video and thanks for the tip!!!

Excellent video!

Great video!

 

Peter

As usual Joey you make the complicated... so simple with great results.

 

Question; is there a trick to applying the gravel to a steep hill side?

 

Trail and error J, the white-glue mix may run down a steep hill, so I'd do lighter multiple layers (coats of gravel). and of course "Hairspray"

ok quick question how many time have you ended up in hot water cause your wife went to get her hairspray and you used it all on a layout

 

I don't know, sounds like Joey  buys it by the case and the Mrs would just steal if from him!