How do you do STRAW in G scale...?

[Zerogee]

I'm doing a small rake of LGB Toytrain cattle trucks, and wanting to weather them up a bit and reduce the toylike look - so I thought about strewing some straw around on the floors..... anyone hit on a good way of depicting straw in G scale?

 

[Mik]

Cheap paintbrush bristles?

 

[barryw]

teddy bear fur or coconut matting
barry

 

[Bram]

Mel's (yb281)has some in his cattle wagons, if he's around he might post a piccie or three

 

[Woderwick]

I used plumbers hemp cut up, it's even the right colour already.

Also good for grass etc. here is a shot of it in place on my old O guage layout to the right of the picture. The "gorse" at the back (above the tunnel) is the same stuff sprayed green with some yellow "flowers" puffed on with a camera lens puffer thingy while the paint was wet.

 

[Martino]

I used pieces from a yard broom I picked up for about $8 as Lowe's. There's enough 'straw' to do a whole fleet of cattle wagons and in the meantime it's keeping the workshop floor clean!

 

[stockers]

Walk on some real stuff (or get an animal to do it for you) and pick up the little bits

 

[Zerogee]

I used pieces from a yard broom I picked up for about $8 as Lowe's. There's enough 'straw' to do a whole fleet of cattle wagons and in the meantime it's keeping the workshop floor clean!

That looks great Martino - of all the good suggestions here, I think that's the one I like the best!
I just need to look for a broom head with bristles of a suitable colour - lots of them are plastic these days.....

I recall an old quote from some comedy show long ago, along the lines of: "Oi've 'ad this old broom for fifty years now... it's only 'ad four new 'eads and three new 'andles....."



Jon.

 

[C&S]

I recall an old quote from some comedy show long ago, along the lines of: "Oi've 'ad this old broom for fifty years now... it's only 'ad four new 'eads and three new 'andles....."
Jon.

Sounds like the Two Ronnies, to me.

 

[stockers]

Fork handles!

 

[beavercreek]

To weather my recent addition of a stockyard I cut the fine yellowed dry grass on my lawn with scissors. This gave some really good natural looking 'straw' pieces.

 

[KeithT]

I used pieces from a yard broom I picked up for about $8 as Lowe's. There's enough 'straw' to do a whole fleet of cattle wagons and in the meantime it's keeping the workshop floor clean!

What the wagons need in addition Martino is whitewash dribbled from the floor. It was used to 'disinfect' the walls and floor.

 

[Martino]

I used pieces from a yard broom I picked up for about $8 as Lowe's. There's enough 'straw' to do a whole fleet of cattle wagons and in the meantime it's keeping the workshop floor clean!

What the wagons need in addition Martino is whitewash dribbled from the floor. It was used to 'disinfect' the walls and floor.

My understanding was that that practice stopped in the 1920s - certainly by '30s! It wasn't just whitewash, but a lime wash that turned out not to be so great for the cattle or the wagon.


I'll see if I can find the source of that info....

 

[Martino]

Here we go......

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gansg/in...b.tiscali.co.uk/gansg/4-rstock/04arstock4.htm < Link To http://myweb.tiscali.co.u...-rstock/04arstock4.htm


Scroll down to livestock.

 

[yb281]

I used pieces from a yard broom I picked up for about $8 as Lowe's. There's enough 'straw' to do a whole fleet of cattle wagons and in the meantime it's keeping the workshop floor clean!

What the wagons need in addition Martino is whitewash dribbled from the floor. It was used to 'disinfect' the walls and floor.

My understanding was that that practice stopped in the 1920s - certainly by '30s! It wasn't just whitewash, but a lime wash that turned out not to be so great for the cattle or the wagon.


I'll see if I can find the source of that info....

Yep, limewash was found to be a bad idea, it did more harm than good, so they stopped using it.

As previously mentioned, you can buy a big bag of chopped hay from a pet shop for very little which will give you enough for a life time. Real straw would look out of scale IMO, but hay is much finer.