corn and other field crops in n scale....

[Sokramiketes]

I suspect SkibbeCorn might be plantable using the foam tape method, which might speed things up a bit and ensure nice, even rows... just a thought...

SkibbeCorn in SmithDirt?  Might have to try that.

[VonRyan]

SkibbeCorn in SmithDirt?  Might have to try that.

+1
Anything in SmithDirt comes out like a Jersey Tomato, or in this case Jersey Corn... not as common but still better than any other state's.
Especially since i'm not doing a garden this year and yet there is a tomato plant growing out of my compost container-thingy.

-Cody F.

[Philip H]

Especially since i'm not doing a garden this year and yet there is a tomato plant growing out of my compost container-thingy.

-Cody F.

Thanks to a well seasoned compost pile I have both volunteer tomatoes and a volunteer broccoli . . . I have been thinking about how to adapt these techniques to sugar cain, which is actually a faily large crop in south Louisiana.  Soybeans are the other - they would probably do well as foliage clusters teased into rows . . .

[Rowan]

Great corn David.

 

[VonRyan]

Thanks to a well seasoned compost pile I have both volunteer tomatoes and a volunteer broccoli . . . I have been thinking about how to adapt these techniques to sugar cain, which is actually a faily large crop in south Louisiana.  Soybeans are the other - they would probably do well as foliage clusters teased into rows . . .

Try making a basswood jig and stringing some brown thread across and gluing some medium green coarse turf to it. It was in Model Railroader a year or so back, but i've no clue the month or exact year. It makes some convincing rows of crops.

-Cody F.

[Flatrat]

It's been a while since I posted on modeling row crops but now I'm at that stage on my layout. I was thinking of trying to glue rows of green yarn down and maybe floating/coating a thin coat of diluted white glue on top and sprinkling blended turf, etc. to try and resemble rows of low green crops. Has anyone tried this approach before? Thoughts?

Scott

[Bluford Craig]

Steve and I have been looking at the corn problem. We would like to do something that doesn't take forever to install or cost a fortune but still looks like N scale corn. There are certainly plenty of prototypes around Bluford!

Craig

[PAL_Houston]

It's been a while since I posted on modeling row crops but now I'm at that stage on my layout. I was thinking of trying to glue rows of green yarn down and maybe floating/coating a thin coat of diluted white glue on top and sprinkling blended turf, etc. to try and resemble rows of low green crops. Has anyone tried this approach before? Thoughts?

Scott

Soybeans?  I need something like that too....and I am looking for suggestions.

[DKS]

Steve and I have been looking at the corn problem. We would like to do something that doesn't take forever to install or cost a fortune but still looks like N scale corn. There are certainly plenty of prototypes around Bluford!

Start at the beginning of the thread. Plenty of etched brass products to choose from, and then laminating the rows in a big foam tape sandwich is relatively quick and painless.

[Sokramiketes]

Start at the beginning of the thread. Plenty of etched brass products to choose from, and then laminating the rows in a big foam tape sandwich is relatively quick and painless.

Nothing about etched brass corn is cheap, David. Craig specifically mentioned cost as a factor.

I also suspect his interest is in the manufacturing end.

[Flagler]

I thought there was a recent article in MR on N sale crops. Try using corduroy for plow rows.
I have used single face miro flute corrugated from the scrapbook area at art/craft stores.

[Flagler]

Another pictrue of my crops

[Kisatchie]

Try making a basswood jig and stringing some brown thread across and gluing some medium green coarse turf to it. It was in Model Railroader a year or so back, but i've no clue the month or exact year. It makes some convincing rows of crops.

I was just looking at that article a couple of days ago. It's in the March, 2010 issue, page 30-32.


Hmm... I was trying to
think up something corny
to say, but nothing came
to mind...

[DKS]

Nothing about etched brass corn is cheap, David. Craig specifically mentioned cost as a factor.

I also suspect his interest is in the manufacturing end.

[jnevis]

I've been looking at ways to model the various fields in SoCal.  Strawberries looked pretty low and flat, so maybe green scrub pad with flocking. Soy looked like the corrugations in cardboard for spacing and dense foam, depending on season/plant height.  Bell peppers were going to be the same cardboard with dense foam and colored beads.

I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet though so mileage may vary