 Today we're going to work with War World Scenic Static Grass, just to see how to apply it on your model railroad. We've got various sizes here in 1mm, 2mm, 4mm, 6mm, and 10mm, and I really can't wait to see how well the 10mm is going to work. I'm looking forward to that. I'm not going to use glue today. Today I'm simply going to use latex paint. I've got some brown from Home Depot's Messed-Up Department, which I'm going to tell you is a good deal. We're going to use that as our glue today. Normally white glue or spray-on glue would work just fine for this, but in this case paint. This brown paint will be our ground texture for the grass. I'm probably going to start out with the 2mm grass, but I like the shade of this spring grass. I've got a nail on my clip, my gun is turned on, and the paint wetness will conduct the static electricity. I know you're supposed to hold this thing straight down, but if I do that I'm going to get way too much grass, so I'm holding on its end right now. It's still standing up really nicely. I'm going to hold it straight up just like this. I get a lot more application of material, almost too much material this way. I think I'd rather hold it this way. I'm still getting a great static charge of my grass standing up magnificently, so I really don't see a reason not to do it this way. If I want a finer amount of grass, which I really do in this case. Now this is a 2mm, let's switch it over to the 4mm. I'm going to use this pasture darker grass, this is a static 4mm grass. It's really heavy there, I like it where it is actually thinner, because that way if I had real dirt down and white glue on this, you'd see the grass through the dirt. This almost looks too heavy. This almost looks like the way the Europeans do it. It's almost too heavy. It doesn't look like you see enough earthly texture through it. I'm going to grab this, that's too much material getting used. I would prefer to use the gun at a little bit of a sloped angle. I still get my standing up when the gun's not even on. Here we go. Alright, my grass is standing up, there it is, and it's finer. I'm going to hold it straight again. Coming in real heavy, if you want pasture grass really heavy, but I don't particularly A, want to use that much, and B, I want my dirt to show through a little bit. And a lot of times you don't do a full field like this, you're just going to put the grass on crack. So a little bit later in this tape, what we'll do is we'll demonstrate actual real live application of this grass on a layout type of a setting. But this is really good looking 4mm grass right now, and it's sticking the paint, it's standing straight up, and I really like the way it's coming out. Now I'm going to switch it over to our 6mm grass. This will go real quick. I'm going to slap a little bit more paint down. Acting again as our glue machine's on. I'm holding it at an angle again, the material's standing straight up, you can see it is. That's just how we want our grass to look if you're doing a small area. I'm going to hold the grass going straight up like this. Now you can see it also standing straight up and coming out much heavier. Again, if you want your dirt to show through, hold your gun at an angle. If you ever use the funnel that fits on the end of this, you're going to want to hold that at an angle too, so that it doesn't dump straight out onto your work. This is good the way this is working now. The last thing I really want to try is the longest material. The longest material is 10mm. I don't know for a fact that it will stand up, but let's try it. If it does, it will be great. It's a useful material. It's a 10mm summer mix. Really nice color. It almost looks like large rolls of hay. You can see hay rolled up in the field. We're on color for that. There other color here is in fact named hay field 10mm, which would be perfect to roll up and make those hail bays that you see ready to be sold. Now the gun's charged, everything's turned on. I've got the long stuff in here. I'm going to hold the gun straight up just to ensure I get a good stand up. Look at that. It is standing up. Joe, forget you're correct. If you hold the gun the way the instructions tell you, the 10mm stuff will stand up. It is standing up. When you hold the gun like this, it doesn't stand up. That's where I was having my problem with this. Joe helped me out, corrected me and said, follow the instructions which I'm now doing and magically this long grass is standing up. So actually this is usable if you want to make a good long hay field. Put some dirt down below. This is perfect vegetation for that. So we've got the 4mm, the 6mm, the 10mm and the 2mm all on paint. Now the next thing I want to do is show you how to use this stuff. Real world application for a train layout. War World Scenics. I've got the 4mm grass here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my spray bottle and I'm going to put just a couple. I'm going to spray this little area right here on the water. Just make it a little bit damp. The whole area can be damp, but this is not glue. This is just water on a finished section of the layout. Then I'm going to take a few dots of Homer's Blue. You see where I'm going with this. We're going to make our own little tufts of grass. I'm going to put a couple dots of Homer's Blue on the wet area. I'm putting down 4mm grass. Taking the white glue and standing up straight. After this dries I'm going to vacuum up the excess around it. We'll be left with just those little areas right here that are standing up just perfect. Actually the whole area is standing up, but again this isn't glue. Just the specks of white glue or glue so we'll have individual tufts. What I'm left with are simply the little tufts of grass. The Homer's Glue is holding. Those are going to dry standing up right where you want them to be. Warworld Scenic sent us 7 different colors to work with and 3 or 4 different sized naps. This being the longest one is our 10mm lap nap in 2 colors. The other colors that we have are a dead type of static grass, a spring and bright color spring mix, which I really like these lengths. We're going to use this one in a few minutes to make a pine tree. Here we've got a 4mm pasture static grass. I've got an autumn type color. Here's a really nice summer grass mix. And then we've got two fall mixes. One of them is called patchy grass. And the other one is a winter grass type color. All very nice colors. A little bit lighter dead grass in there too. So I mixed them the two together. I think this is going to work out really good having these two colors mixed together. What I'm doing is I'm putting down a little bit of glue that will represent where the grass would be growing out of the cracks of the concrete and the cement. And that's just a couple little dribble to glue here. This is going to look really good when this is done. Good conductivity. This is my surface. I'm going to turn my gun to apply the grass. It's standing up. I'm not sure this is standing up. I'm going to lay this down right here on top of the water. It is standing up. I've got it standing up grass. Cover this whole area where the glue is. Let that dry for a few minutes. Now I'm not putting this clip in the ground. I was just attaching it, letting it make contact with the flat surface which worked. That's standing up. When that dries, I'll come back and vacuum it. And it will be left with simply the crack grass standing up left over. After vacuuming up the yellow, I then went ahead and put down some green just to add a little different color into the cracks. So I'm going to vacuum up this and you'll see what you're left with. And after vacuuming, what I'm left with are the little cracks with the grass growing right out of them on the pavement. Just the way you might want to have on your layout. Another thing that static grass is really, really good at is making pine needles for pine trees. I'm going to show you how we're going to do that right now. I've got a pine tree that's made simply out of a dull rod that we've always made pine trees. Nothing new there, old school. I've got hogs hair put on it in a couple of different layers. Nothing new there. I've got hogs hairs automatically that green color. I'm just going to put some hairspray on it right now and then apply the flocking. I'm going to put on four millimeter long pine needles. I know that's a little long, but it's the right color. I'm attaching my ground clip to the bottom nail of the tree and just to make sure I have good contact. Make sure that's wet. The gun's on. Now I'm putting the pine needles on to the tree and what they're going to do is they're going to go on to it and stand straight out towards the gun. This gives you a very cool effect. A very believable effect. That's pretty much all you do and I've done that to a great deal of these trees here where you can see I've got individual pine needles on them. That's the way I suggest you do that.