good evening and thanks for watching another budget model railway video today we're going to do a slightly longer one on how to make Hills which seems a very popular subject we made this hill for almost no cost even if we'd had to buy the materials it would only have cost us about to pound 50 we already had them such a very cheap way it's very lightweight and we're using a different method of building the hill away from the baseboard and then bringing it and sticking it on so this is the finished image and now we'll show you how we made it so welcome to another one of our videos this is going to be a composite one about how I make ills so I'm going to do it in two or three different places and then edits together so this is just to show you the base construction of the hill now obviously what I'm doing a bit differently is I'm not building this in situ on the layout and so the same as I build a little town seen almost the same as I'm doing the static graph this is Sonic again I saw in rally mod or a few years ago rather than making a lot of mess and I'll show you in a minute where I can't get to my layout but this is just to show you the very simple construction that's all secondhand cardboard and I've got a little flat going there I'm going to have my pillbox on that right and now we come to the next stage you've seen how we build the basic cart with structure we did use these switches the cheaper power lend PDA it does take a day or so to dry you can honestly buy better PVA so we'll glue dry very very quickly there'll be five or six times the price so it's up to you we're budget so we do it cheap so the next days here is not really very complicated we take screwed up newspaper and we shove it in to where we want it to go and then we pour a little bit of glue to hold it in place now we used to use water down glue but this tube PVA is pre watered down anyway so I don't really see place it can last for you I'm going to do a couple of it and show you is doing it and then what we'll do is we'll climb laps here we're ready to do the next stage now one of the reasons we use cheap pH TVA is because even a job like this might use half a bottle it's just not worth using rocket blew up 10 pound the top for this kind of job it really isn't nice and messy when Douglas my son was a little bit younger really used to enjoy doing this so I'm just going to do a few more bit and then we're trying lap set one of the reasons are doing all these different supports is to hold the scrunched up newspaper in place so it what we'll do now we'll carry on with the time-lapse and then as if by magic in a few seconds you'll see it finished which is probably certainly about Horner Oh so what I'm going to do now as you can see here we've got our Hill ruff you made lots of scrunched up newspaper might come out a bit steeper than on one so the next stage is to start sticking the paper mache strips on to do that this is why you need a back thing the easiest thing to do is to put a few bits there and then this will come over like this and what we're going to do is tuck that underneath quite so long little bit of glue back and then we're going to use this which is watered down PVA and like that what we call ballast glue because we used to use it conditionally for sticking ballast down and what we're going to start doing is putting the hills on the actual cover to the hill that quite quite messy but it will work actually that first bit I did is probably a bit big it works better with short strips and then we'll just show you how we're doing a few of these bits and then in a moment we're going to find that so you can see that you see how this piece now is sticking to that piece and we can already start putting it in a bit tighter the real thing is don't let them get too bulky and steep because then you'll have problems with your Skype okay and now we're going to go into timer so just something with just this is how we always work pretend to discover things as we go along it's coming out too much at the front they don't have the clearance on the track so what we're actually going to do is another little thing which is to use masking tape so that we can pull it tight enough to do what we want to do one of the advantages of newspaper as opposed to say using Mod Rock or plaster bandage if you don't get the grid marks that you get often and we across the bandage we're just using a little water spray here that we use when we're ballasting just as a way again of wetting the paper of s before we put the glue on and better masking tape to hold it in place on the back we put the paper mache on something different we tried last time we covered the hill in liquid plaster and it works ok but it's not something easy to get hold off you've got to get it from craft shops so I try to send a girl so I've seen actually from a school teacher and we smeared all this with PVA glue big coat of PVA glue now that's Drive you can hear how hard is so we're not going to do the plaster and that way we're not going to have any more expense so our ordinary acrylic paint this has come from power lend as always it really ought to call our railway Poundland Model Railway but all we're going to do is we're going to paint this green and it's the reason we're painting the screen is very simple when you put the scatter on if you miss Oni and you always do or is a little bit forms off it won't matter one of the first ones we did with the plaster show through and we got away with it because it looked like chalk but it's much better actually to do this and then when you put whatever scatter and you put it hides it now I'm going to do the same as always I don't think you need too much help being shown how to use paintbrush so I'm going to stop talking now and well time lapse basin neither know we might get some nice music or something on so I'm going to carry on with this it's going to take me about 20 minutes in about 30 seconds on there now and there we go back to that stage finished already now for Hill and scattering so we left it last time with the green painted now what I want to do is to build the rocks a stage to give it a slightly different look you will have seen some videos on this before but just in case you haven't we're going to show you again so what we use is this all-purpose filler this came from Poundland as always always joked we also call it Poundland railways just going to undo it I think it's a muse bug go so it looks like this inside so semi solid you don't need lots of different tools so nice out the kitchen and the spoon and we're just here what I want to do is put a rock face on the front I don't want it to come out too much because there isn't the track clearance for the coaches and what we're going to do is going to put it on and then we'll roughing it up so that it looks a bit more like a rock face got a couple of tools here to do this I've got this I've got a bit of Lego rock face I'm just going to try pushing that in in a few places what we're trying to get here is edges because you can get edges then when we do the dry brush technique it will look more like rock I'm just going to try and dab it down a bit so that we don't see much of it unrealistic looking or French anything that's coming on quite nicely now we're going to do as usual I'm going to film this duel this but we'll film it and put it in a time map for you so that you can get the idea just just tricky trying to get it to stick sometimes to work with doing it too but anyway we'll crack on and time lapse fit so then you don't have to sit watch just do this for half an hour they see a timeless so here we have the syllabus now all dry so very simple this is just test reports this happens to be Wix the same color as I used on the rock face on my River so that it to the rock will all look the same and obviously what we're just going to do is paint it you will need to put two coats on because however hard you try you miss bit and I'm going to stop talking now because we'll go into the usual time lapse so what we're doing here we've let the base coat dry this is just a black watery paint simple as that and you can see what we're trying to do is put it on really sickly so that it goes in all the creases and crevices like that it has to be really quite black don't worry if it looks like it's too black it seldom is doesn't matter if it runs like that and we're just going to sit and work it into all the cracks and crannies you can see hopefully how well that's working when you look at a bit that's been done in a bit that hasn't been done and then what we'll do after this is we'll go to a dry brush technique but this really needs to dry for at least 24 hours it's very watery paint if it's not absolutely dry the dry brushing won't work and it looks a complete mess and doesn't give you the desired effects at all there we go nice and quickening easiness now what I've done is I've painted some of the rock colour a little bit up what was going to be grass just to give me a better transition when the time comes I'm not going to time that to this bit because it doesn't take very long to do so we just done that bit as you can see in real time and there we go so we come to the last stage of doing the rock face what's known as dry brushing which you read a lot of that we don't always get shown how to do you need a much lighter color than your base colour but in the same spectrum although I always just use this which is creams and it literally means having almost no hang on the brush and then brushing over like that and what you'll see is I'll bring it up to the camera so I need my glasses do say can I bring it up to the camera what you're doing is the dark is the depth and the light is the light a bit and that's too much like we're talking and not listening okay we can it's not where because I botched it so we'll come back and we'll fix that in a minute because I wasn't I was talking and not concentrating my foot down but we can paint over that and then that would be done in fact we do it properly you can see the difference and it makes a big difference to rock and just full city what I've got here is a very thick short bristle brush and that's ideal that's I know how we can hide that rate we'll put some grass it really is simple yeah and that's why I need quite to use quite a dark face color and a lot of black paint because it's will lighten it and what I will do just quickly show you finished result is actually quite a nice realistic rock face and then to scatter so now for the next part and I could use all sorts of scatter to do this so we could use the static graph technique but I pick this up for the other day for 50p and so it's quite nice color so we're going to use that also because then I have three different colors of graphs on the layout which is more realistic this really isn't complicated especially as we've done quite a lot of green paint I'm going to use this cheap PVA because it's already quite watery which is another advantage of it and we're going to do going to work it down towards the rock face make sure it's covered as much as possible and we might time frame this bit time lapses bit because this is a bit boring you're getting your next edge real time that fit and and then you can place it from there so we're going to do Christmas scatter into a tea strainer and put it all over LA we're going to do you kick this a little bit because right can you come and be a cameraman solution for you around so what I'm just showing here is that this was a 50 P bag and we're selling that hillside and we still got within a 2/3 of a bag left obviously you can you can play it and buy it new because I'm not fast without the color I just buy it cheap whenever I can get it eBay or second-hand shops so that's a particularly nice one it's multicolored so I'm pleased with that so here we have a hill all made for just a few pounds a couple of pounds actually so here it is on the layout you can see that what I've done is just taken the ballast up to the edge of it to blend it in I put some trees on these are the usual ones we get from China for about 20 P each and when I can find it I've got my tool box to stick on so hopefully nice simple cheap quick effective way of making Hills as always like comment subscribe subscribe to our newsletter and thanks for watching hi thanks for watching the video and for the nice comments click on the left for a previous video in this series click on the right for another video you might enjoy and please don't forget to click to subscribe like comment etc thanks again