Model Railroad VLog: Putting Scenery on the Interchange: Part 62
Excellent primer for beginners: tinyurl.com My Web Site: modelrr.oakviewresources.com Part 62: This is a multi-part blog where I do some track work and put scenery on the interchange section of my model railroad. In this video I start putting on grass with my homemade static grass applicator. Music Notes: The music on this video was recorded using Sonar Home Studio Ver 6.0. The drums and keyboards were played on an M-Audio Keystation 61 ES and/or sequenced in the MIDI Editor. The bass used is an Essex Jazz Fretless bass. The acoustic guitar is an Alvarez AD70-sc .
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that looks awesome, i wish i had static grass, do they make static grass appliers cause i dont think i could make one of those
Comment by ConrailxChessie — May 31, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
this looks like a very realistic way to “grow” grass.
A few questions:
How large an area would 1 ground nail affect? Would you get by with them spaced a bit farther apart?
Did you ballast your track,after putting in the dirt base? I would think to ballast last,to cover the edge of whatever grass you have laid down.
And,how many volts are running through that?
Comment by Blargaldalien — May 31, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
>How large an area would 1 ground nail affect?
I don’t know for sure. My guess would be no more than a couple of inches diameter from the nail.
>Would you get by with them spaced a bit >farther apart?
Maybe. I don’t know for sure. I’ll have to experiment.
>Did you ballast your track,after putting in the >dirt base?
Yes
>I would think to ballast last,to cover the edge >of whatever grass you have laid down.
You could do it that way.
Comment by thebige61 — May 31, 2009 @ 2:07 pm
I guess I wanted to create the effect that the track had been there for some time and that the grass was starting to encroach on the tracks. I may try things the other way around on other sections of the layout.
>And,how many volts are running through >that?
7,500 volts
Comment by thebige61 — May 31, 2009 @ 2:08 pm
How did you make your static grass aplicater? I’m not going to spend $200 for the one from sceanic express… I dont have that kind of money.
Comment by thersaholycow — May 31, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
Go back a couple weeks ago in his vids and he did some vlogs on it….
Comment by jbrunsonjr — May 31, 2009 @ 9:36 pm
cant be 7500 volts.
Try 7.5 volts instead.
Comment by benllben — June 1, 2009 @ 4:35 am
This doesn’t look like the static grass applicator you made from the fly swatter. Can you give us some description of the one you are using for this video?
Comment by cp6027 — June 1, 2009 @ 6:47 am
Nope it’s 7,500. Static electricity is high voltage and extremely low amps that’s why it doesn’t kill you. The Ion generator I used is rated at 7.5 kV. According to thefreedictionary . com—>
kV – a unit of potential equal to a thousand volts
so 7.5 kv = 7,500.
Comment by thebige61 — June 1, 2009 @ 7:11 am
For clarification the Ion Generator runs off of 120 volts AC and generates 7,500 volts static electricity.
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Comment by thebige61 — June 1, 2009 @ 7:13 am
Not like the one he’s using in this series. I’d like to see the plans or a How To series on this “more powerful” version.
Comment by box306 — June 1, 2009 @ 11:44 am
You’re right – I didn’t even notice!
Comment by jbrunsonjr — June 1, 2009 @ 5:28 pm
Will you be putting a video out on the new static grass applicator you used? It looks as though a lot of us are waiting for it.
Comment by Kauuna — June 3, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
I didn’t record it with my camcorder. I did take a bunch of pictures and will be writing an article on it for my own website.
Comment by thebige61 — June 3, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
Since building this thing involves working with 120 Volts AC I felt more comfortable writing an article (with pictures and diagrams) than videotaping it.
Comment by thebige61 — June 3, 2009 @ 5:44 pm
That is AMAZING!! Now I have to toss all of my ground
foam crap and redo my entire O gauge layout!! Thanks for NOTHING!! :0
How many DC volts are we talking here for your homemade applicator? Can the discharges to your nails damage said device?
It amazes me how such a massive person as yourself can be so painstaking. Do you do some kind of ZEN or something?
Looking forward to more video!!!
Comment by litvak54 — June 9, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
did you put the article for your static grass applicator on your website? I looked and couldnt find it.
Comment by chevelle396guy — September 14, 2009 @ 5:00 pm