Outstanding video.  I'm

Outstanding video.

I'm going to have to try this method on my n scale layout. Problem is I can only get 2" Green foam down here in New Zealand. Hopefully it will cut the same way as the blue and pink foam

Absolutely excellent!

Curses!

Great!   Now I have to go carve some rocks.  Those look too good not to be on my layout somewhere.  And far too easy!

Love it!

Love the intro with the cards sitting in the train cars! Very imaginative. You're pretty good at this How-To stuff, the camera loves you! And I thoroughly enjoyed the videos, very clear and easy to duplicate. Perhaps some alternate camera angles could be edited into your final video? Just an idea, there's really nothing wrong with them as they are. And I too am going to have to give this method a try, it looks just too easy and affordable for such a fantastic finished product!

So, what's your next video topic going to be? And when can I see it? I can't wait, you could develop quite a following with videos like these! Keep up the good work!

Thanks

Thanks for the encouraging words everybody. This was my first attempt at editing together a "real" video. I learned a great deal in the process and would do a few things differently next time. Whatever and whenever that may be.

At any rate, I still have a bunch of foam downstairs that doesn't yet look like rocks so it's time to let the pink snow fly.

Super Nice!

  Well done!  Your rock cliffs look great.  I like how you can see some of the lines of the foam blocks in some of the close up shots.  It looks like the rock is  fractured, but not checked out yet.  But the lines are not perfectly straight either.  It must be that the plaster you used to fill the cracks has fractured very naturally along the "fault".

  Nice job with the video!  I'd like to see what you do with the vegetation on that wall when you get to that point!

Cheers!

Toni

Nice Rocks!!!

Rick - thank you SO MUCH for doing these videos!!!!!!!  I am planning a large area needing rocks, and I am going to use your method!  I am infatuated with the Rocky Mountains, so one half the layout is set in the mountains.  As I'm constructing things I've been apprehensive of getting to the stage of putting rockwork in place.  Plaster sure it painstaking.  (Emphasis on pain!)  Plus heavy.  (Emphasis on heavy)  I made a diorama  - 2 feet by 4feet, to try the plaster method.  It looks excellent, but is way too  time consuming and messy.  Not to mention the cost of either buying large molds, or effort to find suitably-textured rocks off of which to make molds.  I am going to make a small scene using your method to hone my skills with this. 

The entrance area to my layout is to have floor to above eye-level rockwork.  This is the way to do it!

Very much appreciated.  Thanks again!

Fantastic!

Really well done video and the end results look fantastic! Makes me wish I had more mountain areas on my layout! I really am going to have to find a excuse to try out these techniques. Thanks Rick.

Awesome!

Spray Paint

Fabulous video and an inspiration to us all !

Thank you so much Rick for sharing this with us.

As I'm in the UK and don't recognise the  make of Spray Paint  you use, could you advise which type of paint it is as I know one has to be careful about the types used on Insulation Foamboard.

Very much appreciated

Thanks again

John

Spray paint

Thanks John,

The spray paint is the everyday, lacquer kind. It would melt the foam if you applied it directly onto it but the layer of latex paint that is applied first acts like a barrier, so  any type of spray paint should work.

where has the video gone?

where has the video gone? I would like to see it. Cheers.

i think this is his channel

Videos are back

I re-embedded the videos. Not sure why they disappeared, maybe something changed on YouTube's end.

Enjoy.

Carving Foam Rocks 2 (Painting)

Hi Rick, I am in the process of making foam rock walls per your tutorial on my 1,000 sq. ft. indoor G-Scale layout. I am ready for phase 2, painting. You reference “dirty brown” paint. You didn’t find that on the shelf. It must have been mixed for you. Can you share for me the colors used and the amount used to achieve your color. I’m afraid if I go to the big box store and request a “dirty brown” color blend it may come out with to strong of a brown color. Yours seems to be a very nice muted brown and I like it. I’ll be buying by the gallon and don’t want to buy wrong.

Thanks Jim

Been a while since I did the video but I believe when I refer to "dirty brown" I mean a colour that I matched to the dirt that I use on the layout. Seeing that there will be other dirt and smaller rocks on top of the carved ones I want it all to blend together. What I use is a custom match that was bought years ago so no actual colour name or number.

All that being said, the colour you choose should be right for your rocks, if you want it a bit more red or a tad more grey, then buy what you want. I'd buy some sample pots of some colours that you like and try a bit and see if it works for you. I rarely use specific colours for anything, everything is a bit of this and a dollop of that.

Carving Foam Rocks 2 (Painting)

Thanks for the response Rick. The challenge for me is finding that right color. I tried a gray, white blend and then adding some rust and a black on a practice piece of foam board. It was a total miss for me. Went back to your video and trying to duplicate your steps. I think I am color challenged (not color blind, just color challenged). I like those earthy tones, but having a tough time achieving them. Like you idea of the sample color approach. Will give that a try on my carved up practice board. Thanks.