How to Make Static Grass Look Ultra Realistic for Dioramas and Model Railway

How to apply static grass for miniature dioramas, scale models, model railroad layouts and scenery, wargaming terrain, action figure displays, and dollhouses. Make realistic scenery bases using real dirt and static grass. Join my PATREON to support my work, and enjoy EXCLUSIVE content that you can use to help create your own projects:   / smolworldworkshop   Enjoying my content? Want to see more videos like these? Then please Like and SUBSCRIBE to my Channel and tap the Bell Icon to get notified each time I post a New Video! In this video, I show you the basics of using static grass. I show you how to make realistic scenery bases using real dirt and sand, and static grass. You'll learn how to mix your own dirt paste that you can apply as an underlayer for your diorama base or model railway scenery. Then, I show you how to apply Static Grass using Woodland Scenic's Static King Grass Applicator. One of my favorite methods to making the grass look super realistic is by painting it with highly diluted acrylic paint using the colors flat earth, and buff. Check out these channels referenced in this video:    / @nightshiftscalemodels      / @boomerdioramas   Materials and Tools: Homemade Dirt Paste - dirt, playground sand, plaster of paris, matte mod podge, water Woodland Scenics Static Grass - Medium Green and Light Green Static Grasses (2mm static grass, 4mm static grass, 7mm static grass) Woodland Scenics Static King Grass Applicator Tamiya Acrylic Paints - Buff, Flat Earth, X-20A Thinner Airbrush - GSI Creos PS-771 (any airbrush should work fine) Don't have an airbrush? Apply your highly diluted paint mixture thinned with Isopropyl alcohol with a paint brush as a wash over your static grass. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:12 Materials For Dirt Paste 0:54 Applying Dirt to Diorama Base 1:30 Adding Static Grass to Diorama Base with Static Grass Applicator 3:05 Painting Static Grass 4:23 Final Result 4:33 Patreon 4:53 Blooper Music: Song: Cruise Music by: CreatorMix.com Song: Full Throttle Music by: CreatorMix.com Song: Moving On Music by: CreatorMix.com