I started out using one of those grass mats in the beginning. The reason I did that, was my last layout as a child had no scenery at all. I have to tell you though, in about two weeks the last of that mat will be covered by ground foam and trees. It is better than plywood, but not much. I wish I had spent the money on a couple shakers of Woodland scenics ground foam. The main problem with it, is it really only works for a manicured lawn. It's a little too perfect for any real world application. I did like having that down instead of staring at plywood though. Good luck with whatever you do.
Sorry , I just reread your post. I attached mine with 3M spray adheasive. If you're using a foam base, I wouldn't use the grass mat unless you are having a perfectly flat world.
It depends on what you're doing, if it's temporary, I wouldn't glue it down at all !! If it's permanent, keep in mind you can use their hot air gizmo to "melt" it into place to conform to hills and dales underneath it, so it doesn't have to be flat. Of course, I suppose if the hot air melted the foam that wouldn't be so good....
Thank you for all of the replies! I am going to attempt to glue it down hopefully this weekend! I will have scaprs left over, so i figured when i decided where to put hills, i can use the scrap mat peices over the wadded up newspaper. We shall see what happens. It has been since about 2001 since i had trains running, but that does not mean i have not been adding to my collection or loco's and rolling stock!
I will try and post an Atlas Right Track plan that i have worked out, thank you for your help!
Not yet at least! JK!
In high school baseball, i was a second baseman, but could really run, so the coaches had this bright idea to put me into Center Field! Well, i caught almost everything, but it involved a lot of circling and last minute adjustments after it looked like i was camped under the ball, thuse, i was giving the coaches a "heartattack" everythime the ball was hit to me! The nickname has stuck with me since 1996, and i still unfortunately catch the same way. My friends get disappointed somewhat when i make a catch like i know what i am doing!
My uniform number is still # 19, feels weird when i played for a team this fall that gave me # 23!
Coincidently I had posted a similar question before I saw this thread. I will leave my post up for any advice, but would like to ask here as well, what about the edges of this WS grass mat? How obvious are they or how much disguising do they require if I lay a piece in a field between some roadbed etc. I am worried that the mat may be fine for large areas where the edges go out to the edge of the layout, but that piece by piece application looks bad?? True?
So far the score here seems tied.....one says the stuff is unrealistic and one says it is quite good for a mat.
I used Readygrass ..... ONCE.
I put it down with white glue. Used it for a manicured lawn. I had to use hedges and bushes to hide the edges. I also had to use bushes to hide some small areas near the edges where I dripped a little scenic cement while applying the bushes. It seriously discolored the Readygrass mat. It looked OK until I used sprayed on scenic cement and sprinkled on blended turf for another grass area of the layout. The difference was so striking that I threw out the rest of the Readygrass that was not yet applied.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Cisco Kid wrote: Coincidently I had posted a similar question before I saw this thread. I will leave my post up for any advice, but would like to ask here as well, what about the edges of this WS grass mat? How obvious are they or how much disguising do they require if I lay a piece in a field between some roadbed etc. I am worried that the mat may be fine for large areas where the edges go out to the edge of the layout, but that piece by piece application looks bad?? True?So far the score here seems tied.....one says the stuff is unrealistic and one says it is quite good for a mat.