Hi guys
i have a question about scenery. it is not so much a railroad question but I know a lot of guys here might have some tips.
i play table top baseball and have wanted to make a field for it for years. What I'm thinking is using woodland scenics turf for grass and brown fine ballast for the infield dirt. I'm not so much trying to replicate a major league field but more of a minor league park. I might make the stands out of Popsicle sticks and using some trees around it also.
anybody have any tips they might be able to lend. I'm not quite set on the ballast as infield dirt. I don't know what else would replicate the color Well
I wouoled be tempted to use a grass mat such as http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Bachmann-Scene-Scapes-32902-Grass-Mat-50-x34-p/bac-32902.htm or http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Woodland-Scenics-Spring-Grass-Medium-Roll-p/woo-rg5131.htm Use spray adhesive to secure it to your base.
For the infield dirt, what about sandpaper? Some types are a reddish brown color. Or try this http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Woodland-Scenics-Desert-Sand-Medium-Roll-p/woo-rg5135.htm
Don't forget to stand up for the 7th inning stretch!
Build it and they will come...
WP Lives
softail86mark Build it and they will come...
We'll see. If you want to see a baseball field under construction, check here:
bigbluetrains.com
LOTS of pictures.
Wayne
OMG!!!
I saw a number of games at Ebbetts Field - the last one in the company of the daughter of the Giants' ticket manager...
The scale of the Ebbetts Field project shows why I don't recommend putting sports venues on model railroads. If the object is to use the model as a game board in its own right, that brings a whole new set of parameters into play. Were I to tackle the project, I'd experiment with fuzzy cloth and dye for the grass and use carefully textured and colored ground goop for the basepaths, mound etc.
Actually, the same techniques can be used for 'sodding' lawns and for simulating hard packed earth anywhere that such surfaces would be appropriate. I have an area where logs are going to be dry-yarded...
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Yoiu might consider a textured paint for the basepaths. Maybe even a flat paint. When you scale down those small grains of the clay based base paths, it would be pretty small in HO.
Good luck,
Richard