"Need help identifying a type of flocking material" Topic
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| Captain Sensible | 13 May 2025 6:23 a.m. PST |
Can anyone tell me what style of flock is used in this video and where I can get it? It's a painting tutorial, but he shows the flocked base at the very beginning. Later on, he describes it as "old railway style flock", but I'm having no luck googling that. Thanks YouTube link |
 miniMo  | 13 May 2025 6:43 a.m. PST |
Possibly Busch or Noch. If you ask in the comments on the vid, he could probably tell you which brand he likes.
I have a bunch of it from the 70s/80s in my flocking supplies, but no memory of what the brand was, probably Lifelike. |
| Giles the Zog | 13 May 2025 7:39 a.m. PST |
Woodland scenics
Javis
Green Scene
Guagemaster Go to a model railway shop they'll have loads of different bags of it, especially railway ballast (grey ish stones) |
 timurilank | 13 May 2025 8:15 a.m. PST |
From the comments section: @SonicSledgehammerStudio 7 months ago
"I tend to find that ordinary static grass just swamps these guys, so any excuse to break out the ancient jar of flock… :D" "Ancient jar of flock" may refer to dyed sawdust used before the age of static grass. |
| miniMo | 13 May 2025 8:36 a.m. PST |
"Ancient jar of flock" may refer to dyed sawdust used before the age of static grass. No. Watching the vid, it's clearly a leafy type of flock that came between the hand-dyed sawdust and the new-fangled static. It's like the little packets of flock grass that came with Nitto diorama kits. |
| DyeHard | 13 May 2025 9:15 a.m. PST |
As I recall:
The Nitto kits was mostly static grass fibers.
This looks very much like Noch as sold in the 70s and 80s.
Little flakes with a few fibers. Did some looking about, what Noch sells as "flock" now is ground foam, like Woodland Scenic. However, look at "Noch Foliage Set" this is like small leaf material:
link
There are many small name suppliers to the model rail community. I know some are stained saw dust (like the ancient Life-Like) but not in that bizarre blue-green. |
| DyeHard | 13 May 2025 9:29 a.m. PST |
I could not help but look more. Here is one source, many good colors and mixes:
link And of course, a DIY video.
As a side note for finer grind of wood, ask for "wood flour" YouTube link Some sources of Wood Flour:
link link |
| Captain Sensible | 13 May 2025 11:55 a.m. PST |
If only the people I work with were this responsive. Thanks guys. |
GildasFacit  | 13 May 2025 2:28 p.m. PST |
Ground cork was also used for railway modelling and dioramas back in the day. More stable than sawdust and took colouring well. |
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