STEP BY STEP

1 Form the foundation of your track. In this case, I used pieces of hard foam sheets, shaped them with a craft knife and fixed them to the baseboard with PVA.

2 I decided to cover the foam with plaster cloth to help blend it into the rest of the landscape. Cut pieces of cloth and dunk it in the non-stick Woodland Scenics Modelling Tray.

3 Lay the cloth over the foam. When dry, paint it green. Apply a thin layer of Woodland Scenics Foam Putty along the road with an off-cut of card and smooth it with a wide paintbrush.

4 With the Foam Putty dry, paint the track with a brown acrylic and allow it to dry. Then apply a coat of PVA and cover with fine sand.

5 To make the hedges you often find alongside a farm track, tease apart some Woodland Scenics Poly Fiber so that it’s light and airy.

6 Spray the Poly Fiber with hairspray and sprinkle on some green scatter. Then put to one side.

7 I created a base layer of scenery along the edge of the track using 2mm static grass fibres. The Poly Fiber covered in scatter was glued onto the verges.

8 Farm tracks are far from smooth and so I highlighted the rutted parts using brown acrylic paint.

9 To make the weeds that run up the centre of the track, I dabbed on a little white glue, having first used a model vehicle to ensure that the wheel tracks are the correct width apart.

10 There are at least three methods of making the grass down the centre: static grass, grass tuft strips or pieces cut from quality grass. I used 2mm static grass fibres.