Those look great!

For wheat or oat straw.  I need to find a fiber that is green.  I wonder if maybe some type of green yarn would work as well?  Worth a try.

Mike.

you can get craft twine

in many colors at places like Michaels and AC Moore.  May not be small enough diameter, but its a start.

When I was building up and

When I was building up and detailing the Hawthorn Village Green Bay Packer train set my daughter gave me, I used Michaels a lot for lighting, figures, etc., so I've walked through their store a lot.  Lots of good stuff for modelers.

They have an extensive thread/yarn/twine dept., so I will check them out.  Looking for a lighter green, to show how the bales fade with time, quickly. 

That is a good video/method for doing this.  And no matter the choice or color, cutting the material in small bits seems to add to the realism of the finished bale.

Mike.

EDIT:  Actually,  it was a rainy drizzly day in SE WI, so I was at my daughters, making a closet and hanging a door under the basement stairs.

Photos

I am not seeing any photos on the original post.  All I get are grey circles with a white dash in the middle of it.  I have seen all other photos in any of the other post.

Joe, HELP.

Photos

I, too, am having difficulty in seeing the pictures. Like OldCarNut44, all I get are the circles with a line in them. I'm not a computer whiz but since my brother switched his system to Mac and purchased an iPhone. I can't see the pictures he send too. I wonder if that is a part of the problem.

The pictures aren't on an open domain

I get a Google login page. For pictures to show up here, they have to be either uploaded to the MRH server or in an open domain like photobucket.

pqe

Hay bails

Have watched Luke's videos.  All are great - some I wouldn't have the patience to do, e.g. lighting vehicles.

The hay bails, I thought was great..... cutting that much twine ....not so great.  Was thinking, haven't done it yet, was to use a cheap "Herb/pepper/spice grinder" .

Luke's bails were in HO scale, I would love to see how they turned out, in N scale

 I was thinking, in a field, HO the TT then N then Z to force perspective

Further - I, and may be only I cannot access your photos.  All I get is a gray and white no entry symbol.

Greg

gotta love google

When I started storing photos there it was open domain . . . . I'll see what I can do.

I guess I don't see photo's

I guess I don't see photo's either.  I clicked on the highlighted link in his post and seen the video with the original OP's picture.  So, I was basing my comments on the video link.

Mike.

So it turns out

that Google Photos no longer supports image URLs that can be copied into forum posts.  I'm sure everyone else picked up on that earlier . . . . but there is a sort of workaround.  If you have Google Photos (and/or a Google Plus Account) you can still log into Picasa, see your photos, and get usable URLs with image extensions that way.  Which I have now done.  Apparently google's developers thought their Share feature would obviate the need for this sort of functionality . . . .

Anyway I have added links above.  Hope they work.

Yep, they worked for me.  I

Yep, they worked for me.  I now see your bales.  The individual "strands" of hay/ straw  seem a bit out of scale.  But a "finer" cutting process would improve it.  Tiny pieces would be better, but a great representation, not that I'am an expert at modeling bales

Mike

Neat Idea

Thanks for sharing.  I will use this on my N-scale layout.