Grasses & Gasses

Nice to see some comment and query on recent posts; thanks for the interest guys! 

Pete M asks about the grass mat. On the bridge, I used the Gaugemaster rough grass, autumn brown (?). It's actual made by Noch and no doubt Gaugemaster are the UK distributors. I will also be using other products to represent ground cover including Greenscene, Noch and Woodland Scenics as well as non purchased items such as soil, tea leaves and dust (!). I expect that the Noch grass mat will be usable in fairly largish patches; it could perhaps be used for a crop field with suitable treatment although not in my case. Here is the product in its package:

Questions were also asked about painting and weathering to achieve certain effects. I still like enamels for model painting and I have several pots of thinners, in various states of disrepute, to thin and weather colours. Here is one of the nastier pots, there is currently more sediment than thinner, but I will dilute it rather than clean the pot and start again:

No doubt this is barred under various EU legislation; usually the same sort that stops us knowing who our fellow members are and where they live! Don't get me started on that again...