An easy to follow practical course with Barry Norman.

During this course you will be learning the skills of scenery making in a structured programme . I plan to make two dioramas with you, and also to sit down and discuss all those scenic topics that you may like help with.

A Railway Embankment

We will start by cutting and shaping expanded polystyrene before covering it with polyfilla to prepare the form of the landscape. Using bleached carpet felt teased and glued to the shell we will discuss colour and then paint it to create our grass, once this is dry it will be dressed with flock and Heki fibres. To complete the scene a piece of track can be glued down and ballasted, so bring along a piece of track in your chosen scale with some ballast.

A Country Lane

Using textured paint we will create a lane and build a scene around it. After adding a grass verge we will make a hedge from rubberized horsehair, which is sprayed with glue and covered with flock. Into the hedge we will plant a tree, the first will be very simply made by spraying Sea Moss with hairspray before sprinkling flock over it. The next tree will be made from wire and we will discover how to form its structure, texture the bark and make the foliage. To complete out dioramas we will be drawing a landscape, and after discussing mixing paint ,we will paint our backscene.