Teddy bear fur for OO scenery

[RTJ]

I was impressed with the level of realism achieved at a demo at last week's Nottingham MR Show and forgot to write down the type and supplier.

 

Please can anyone help?

 

Richard (UK)

[RedgateModels]

he he, right next to me too, and I didn't take any notes either! Andy Y did spend a lot of time at that particular table as did PMP of this parish ......

[Andy Y]

Yup, I spent a good while having a natter with John!

 

I believe Green Scene sell it; if that's not convenient it may be worth asking at fabric stalls on an indoor market.

 

 

[DonB]

Or do a search on the old RMweb (via the google thingy at the page bottom) there was some discussion and a note of a supplier in B'ham (IIRC) who would sell it by the half-yard.

[RTJ]

Thanks all; not the only one then!

 

The supplier was from B'ham. Anyone any idea?

 

Bw

 

Rich

[Tony_S]

This page has their supplier details at the bottom of the page under the technique description. I bought teddy bear fur (for thatching the roof of a building) from Hobbycraft.

 

Tony

[multivac]

Just to clarify, see my post above if you want the actual stuff John, (the demo'er), uses.

 

The address is the same as is the type to buy.

Teddy Bear fur

 

Is this the stuff used on The Gresley Beat?

[polybear]

There was a feature on the method in MRJ; I also asked questions about the method on the old RMWeb so do a search with my username etc. and you may find some useful responses there also

 

HTH

Brian

[LaScala]

Teddy bear grass

 

I posted this last month

 

Definitely choose your colours carefully as recolouring is essential no matter what the teddy hue. You don't want a Kermit shade showing through. Several articles in MRJ about this including the huge "Retford" EM layout and Peter Kirmond's "Blea Moor" Settle & Carlisle layout.

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[Chris Nevard]

On Pete Waterman's Leamington the teddy bear fur is singed slightly with a blow torch to good effect.

The biggest let down I've seen is the lip so often seen around the perimeter of the fur areas.

 

LaScala - great link B)

[LaScala]

I reckon the edge problem is best solved by use of static grass or Silflor. Getting variation in colour takes a long time. I have dry brushed with acrylics and also sparingly used static grass wafted on with hairspray to try to destroy the uniformity. Random trimming also helps a lot, plus any other vegetation such as weeds, nettles etc. Blanket use of Barry Norman approved airbrushed LNER green looks just like what it is...........

[Paglesham]

Teddy Bear fur looks exactly like what it is too...teddy bear fur.

 

Hanging basket liner, carpet underfelt, more natural fibres like sisal string, hemp, etc. they're the things to use and if you can still get it, for finer grass, LINT. Gawd bless it. Lovely stuff, stuck straight down, not upended and pulled off! Stick it down, get the matt greens out and dip in the pots at random, mixing and blending. Have a brass wired suede brush handy for when it starts to set and tease it all up where you want it, roll some down to represent paths, sheep runs, etc. and even shave some for well tended lawns. My old Remmington only touched my face once when I were a lad and I thought s*d that for a lark. Never shaved since but done some nice lawns with it.

[LaScala]

Point taken abut PW's music, it always was bubblegum rubbish. I can forgive me for ploughing the profits into trains real & miniature though.

 

As for lint, I challenge anyone to have the time to cover large areas in this way, particularly in 7mm scale. Blea Moor does not look like teddy fur at all though I must say Retford's "grass" looked less convincing in MRJ.Blea Moor video

[10800]

Blea Moor does not look like teddy fur at all

 

Maybe not, but then with all those poorly disguised rectilinear join lines Blea Moor never convinced me it looked like Pennine moorland either. There's a limit to the number of symmetrical ditches and dry stone walls you can plausibly use.

[Paglesham]

On the club layout that taught me how to use lint, we had a 24ft.x36ft. oval of boards about 3 ft. wide, most of which was lint if it wasn't two tracks of EM.

If you don't faff about sticking it down fluff first and ripping off, but use it as it comes, you can buy it by the roll and lay it out. It knits together well at edges and doesn't show the edge of the cloth like teddy bear fur. because of that we used to tease it across baseboard joints where appropriate.

Maybe I was just lucky to have been around in those days...Lucky,lucky,lucky

 

Paglesham

[LaScala]

Agreed those Blea Moor joins are are weak and spoil an otherwise convincing look. I presume it was because the whole layout had to break down into back of the car pieces. The moor seems to be in a large number of segments each one only about 60-80cm wide.