Realistic mountains ULTRA - Detailed Guide DIY

Tutorial on how to model super realistic mountains from ground up for your model railroad, RPG tabletop fantasy / miniature terrain or diorama scenery. This tutorial focuses on realistic scenery result using low cost materials.
Hur man enkelt gör riktigt verklighetstrogna berg till modellandskapet. Funkar både Märklin, Roco, Bachmann och Hornby anläggningar.

[@jkoblivion4175]

8 years later and still magnificent. Thx for showing us the know-how :)

[@micheleu280]

I made a mountain using your technic for my Christmas village. I do not consider myself particularly crafty but your explanation made the project easy. Since it is a winter scene I am not going to paint it, but sprinkle it with artificial snow flakes. It is now in the process of drying and I see that I need to put a few more tissues here and there but other than that it came out great. I did have some issues with the tissue tearing but it actually worked to make it more like little rocks. Thanks you so much for doing this. It is so much more realistic than styrofoam. I love the details that come out.

[@strafrag1]

This is excellent, Martin. I love the white dry brushed look too. Just super!

[@markhpman]

i love it.its so effective.and reasonbly quick and cheap.brilliant job

[@sparkyvator7802]

I've watched so many videos to get ideas to help me get started. This is by far one of the best and most effective. Thank you

[@19MikitO19]

I love all your work, I can watch this video a thousand times without getting bored.

[@praingmantis1]

This effect looks awesome. I love the white detail at the end. It looks great. Don't worry about what 'they' say. That highlighting effect works very well and it looks beautiful.

[@mikparker2572]

Totally agree, brilliant technique

[@willparsons32]

You have the answer to all the "how to's" in this hobby! I've got a mountain - well, 1/2 of one and don't know how to "top" it.. Watching this video answered my problem! Thanks!!

[@petersierksma5374]

You are very inspirational, in your creative and low budget way of working, leading to excellent results

[@fredjohn4482]

I'm just starting my layout. Your mesh idea is brilliant! Thank you so much!

[@r.h.2997]

Fantastic video. I'm starting a layout and your videos are a brilliant source for ideas, techniques and guides. Thank you very much

[@albertschultz7151]

Thank you, much smarter than styrofoam and less messy. Truly appreciate your time and videos.

[@jasontowne120]

It looks SO REALISTIC! I’m planning on making a whole wall of faux rock in the near future, so this video REALLY helped me out. Thank you so very much!

[@leonardwilliams1955]

I kept getting lost. each time you proved you know how to make mountains! Very Nice!

[@cristiangradinaru2045]

That's amazing!! Thank you for the detailed video!

[@LordRusty5]

As always, Martin ... a wonderfully instructive video! The mountain rock work is EXCELLENT!!! Well done!

[@marklinofsweden]

Thank you John! 👍😊

[@Eclipse1988]

You, sir, are a genius... The best scenery I've seen on KZbin, hands down!

[@wayneosmand7652]

Only discovered your channel the other day! and I will admit that I am ADDICTED! Have learnt just so much from them! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! From the once great land downunder!

[@w.rustylane5650]

I really love your technique. You make it look so easy to do. Thanks for posting this tutorial. I've learned quite a lot. :-)

[@mikparker2572]

The dry white gives it more depth and simulates highlights. I think its a great technique. Beautiful video and work👏🏼👏🏼

[@pabitramohangayan1482]

I do fountains made out of materials you use. But yours are superb . I still get ideas from your works. Respect❤

[@Bigbuddyandblue]

I like the white dry-brush effect so much, that when I built an outdoor fish pond out of real, unpainted rocks, I dry-brushed them very lightly, and the result was amazing! Since then, I dry-brush any rock or retaining wall I I’ve ever built. I just seems to make textures pop.

[@brucedavenport3931]

Thank you for coming up with good technique as I am a novice when it comes to scenery

[@pamweeks1269]

Thanks so much for this video. Great instructions and inspiration.

[@GrandSpartan]

Love all of your videos! I just started working on my new layout a month or so ago. Your videos will come in handy when trying to create mountains and the lake I am looking to add. Thank you so much for sharing your techniques with us all!

[@marklinofsweden]

Thank you for your positive feedback! Love to see the progress with your layout.. Are you active in some forum somewhere maybe?

[@GrandSpartan]

I will be uploading some videos to my channel at some point. Most likely when things are a bit more complete. Actually just took a break from working on the mountains using your technique!

[@roberthorning3808]

Grand Spartan y

[@jmkmini]

Thank you Mark! Thank you for all your videos!

[@yiannismanousakis2528]

Great method and great results. Thanks for sharing

[@ChrisGuiver]

Thank you, greatly appreciated. Easy, and the results are "Wow" (spectacular).

[@marklinofsweden]

Thank you Chris! Is it your Samoyed? I have a Samoyed dog too! :)

[@ChrisGuiver]

+marklinofsweden Yep, he is on his mat watching me as i type this... (9yo)

[@Franz-lf9tn]

Simply wonderful!!! Thank you from Italy!

[@hamoudgahl9941]

Boah! I really LOVE your style :) Can‘t wait to go on experimenting with these great techniques you’re showing. Much appreciation for your videos, very entertaining and easy to watch :)

[@donniecatalano]

Wow you're a true master, what a great result

[@kylielovesnick5288]

I love your videos they are strat to the point and very detailed thank you for sharing you are very talented and have some amazing models.

[@michaelmoore2802]

Fantastic !! Really great video!! Thanks for your instruction

[@Festvangelist]

I have a winter scene and the dry brush works great for areas with light snow.

[@160digitalpulse]

Wow your work is magnificent and I enjoy a lot

[@marvinbanka7592]

I used your method, and it was easy to do and it looked great. Thank you.

[@paullyriseabove]

Looks incredible. Fantastic work.

[@predatorxp91virus12]

perfect, such a great tutorial thankyou for sharing my mind is buzzing with ideas for my country to coast theme.

[@marklinofsweden]

+Master Dan Great to hear you like the video! 👍😊 Sounds like a great idea for a theme! 👍

[@richardgallagher913]

Hello from upstate NY in the Adirondack Mountains! Watched your Portal Tunnel vid this morning. That was great! This is great! Love your vids! Will watch the waterfall vid next. You have me fired up to build! Thank You!

[@jjab99]

Great tips there, many thanks my friend.

[@rhonda6082]

What great ideas!!! I love this! Thank you!!!

[@silverdon55]

Easy and realistic. Plus light weight. Thanks.

[@markgenest6968]

Outstanding tutorial my friend! I've been looking for a great method for a long time. This is it👍 many thanks

[@LordRusty5]

Wonderful mountain work!

[@alina-ce5hd]

u are a GOD SEND thank u so much marklin have the best day i love your videos and models

[@patricklowe1039]

Looks amazing. Thank you!

[@titodalessandro1909]

Fantastic! I’ve watched five techniques , And I enjoyed and liked yours the best.

[@CrankyPantss]

Very nice. I had a really large area of mountain and ground to form, so I just used chicken wire and covered it with newspaper and papier-mâché. It worked really well, too and was very inexpensive. Thanks for sharing your methods with us.

[@marklinofsweden]

Thank you! Good to hear you like the video! 👍😊 Please check out my Patreon page for Vlogg, behind the scenes and exclusive information for supporters from only $2/month. www.patreon.com/marklinofsweden Wish you a nice weekend!

[@hectoravila7036]

News paper and chicken wire???? Let me try!!

[@peteprizzi8508]

What did you use to hold the rocks?Love the wire screen + t paper.

[@ceciliablomqvist6677]

Wow!! Vilka läckra grejer du gör! Håller på att titta igenom alla dina videos 👏👌❤️

[@elpilot2065]

Amazing work... i can see this all day

[@alfredoisla1646]

Great ideas and great video !!!

[@JohnS-jj9by]

I just found your site. Mountains look awesome!

[@nicholasbishop3300]

Looks great I think the white dry brush at the end is brilliant, to me it's as if the rocks have some quartz in them Nick Australia

[@skrill-sophiaxd6663]

I love it every work you do in your videos. They are realy professional , ¡Thank!

[@jasonleach3637]

I have just started my layout,your tutorials have helped me loads i have been using aluminum foil to create the mountains as we are on a low budget and have been using copier paper in strips dipped into wallpaper paste,as there is a toilet paper shortage due to the corona virus here in the uk.

Thank you! I was hopeless before finding your tutorials! :-D

[@marnovac]

Marvelous! Thanks for sharing.

[@JerryTanner_jereth]

Excellent video, thank you so much!!

[@northwind9505]

Outstanding! Best one yet!

[@user-lm8fg9eo5n]

Very good, I like the way it came out. I’m going to try it.

[@guyprior6237]

Great video I like the white wash too you are right about bringing out the edges. Obviously you have used a thicker grade of bathroom tissue. Enjoyed this very helpful.

[@normbenjamin]

I've watched many videos of making hills and mountains this is the lightest fastest clean way to make them. I's also very inexpensive to do that's the best part as long as we can get toilet paper *lol* This is the system I have decided to use on my layout. This like most of your other videos is really great I like the simplicity of the systems you use makes modeling much easier with fewer tools and co0mponents.

[@MCanha]

Liked your technic. You have a proper way of saying how meanwhile you do the explaining. I'll try using some of your ideas on one of my future projects. Also, great job, it looks fantastic!!

[@marklinofsweden]

Thank you very much for the positive comment! 👍😊 I'm sure your creations will be just as nice

[@Eclipse1988]

Looks excellent!!

[@MrAmf4me]

Awesome video, thanks for the the pointers, PS I like the white dry brush

[@Micheldessources]

Merci beaucoup pour tous ces bons conseils

[@THHF_Hobby_Time]

I am going to be trying your technique soon. I actually already went and tried the toilet paper with scenic glue to do some filling. That was really easy to work with!

[@zeichnerkollege]

Superb tutorial. Thanks for showing!

[@marklinofsweden]

Thank you!

[@josemariasaad4005]

Dear Mark I'm from Brazil, I live in the city of Vitória, Capital of the State of Espírito Santo. I've been watching his videos and I've become a huge admirer of his work. Congratulations and I have been trying to learn how to make mountains with your techniques, I hope I can do it, maybe not perfectly but we will work hard to see a good result. A big hug from Brazil.

[@armoredsaint6639]

That was freaking amazing I’m a total newbie at this and I learned so much Matterhorn here I come! Lol

[@datalasse]

Super tutorial! It will be usefull for me.

[@iangrant888]

incredible. I cant wait to try this technique

[@maryanncayme7696]

Love it sir.thank you for sharing.It's very usefull for my christmas village that I'm building

[@pabitramohangayen6338]

Woo...so realistic. Amazing method

[@petewawa7803]

Definitely a great video... Very interesting and useful..

[@WEUSANDCORR]

Thanks for sharing this its a nice out come and I will be trying it Cheers Les

[@marklinofsweden]

English language spoken.This video in also available in Spanish and German on my KZbin channel.Dieses Video ist in Englisch und Deutsch auf meinem KZbin-Kanal zur Verfügung.Este video también está disponible en español y alemán en mi canal de KZbin.

[@Robert5185]

I'm thinking of doing it your way vs. woodland scenics way (which I have used before and didn't like the results it came out looking to spotty and rough for a Canadian rocky scene). Maybe I will use woodland scenics again way first and if I don't like results I will use your technique. Thanks for the advice. The white emulates weathered rock in the sun (typically granite) or frost bitten slate, if it is wintertime. That is why people say it isn't natural...but it is if you apply it lightly to certain areas like you did it works amazing.

[@danwillis2671]

Very impressive work. Thank you.

[@PinePeakEntertainment]

wow, if I find all the material you have saved me so much time!!!! Thank you!

[@PinePeakEntertainment]

found everything and ordered...so happy with this tutorial :-)

[@htcu-rchobby5522]

Very good job Sir, very , very nice solution. I enjoy this tutorial and have learned very much. Excellent DIY project. Thank for sharing with us. Best Regard

[@gabriellayapp1772]

this was super helpful, thank you!

[@marklinofsweden]

Thank you Gabriella! Good to hear you like the video! 👍😊 Please check out my Patreon page for Vlogg, behind the scenes and exclusive information for supporters from only $2/month. www.patreon.com/marklinofsweden Wish you a nice weekend!

[@RPGamesBrasil]

Congratulations! I learnt much with tutorial.

[@dan43213]

Excellent work!!

[@artemissailing485]

Great tutorial. I followed it for the coloring of the rocks and it worked out very well! I have created a diorama (2m x 50cm) which combines a mainline in H0 and a narrow gauge (H0e) line which serves a mine. At the mine I created a rockface around the entrance to the mine (with track in it). Diorama is open on the backside to see the interior of the mine too. Setting is is Epoche I (appr. 1910) with KPEV trains. I used styrofoam for the base of the rockface and created the rocks by applying egalisation paste (what you use to fill cracks in interior walls). I sculpted rocks into this with a knife. Then I followed the painting technique as in this video. Super result! Thanks! If you want pictures, let me know your email address.

[@e.a.7265]

Very helpful. Thank you!

[@kaifray5736]

Great inspirational video, now i know how to attempt to make mountains on my Z scale track.. thank you

[@annarimer261]

This tutorial is amazing, wish me luck!

[@leeswenson4350]

This is the first of your tutorials that I have viewed. Your technique, as well as your verbal description and commentary are top notch! Very informative and I like your sense of humor displayed along the way. *wink* Consider me: SUBSCRIBED. Förträfflig !

[@coa4926]

Good job! Very realistic.

[@andrewsimpson9781]

Thanks for all the information, as it makes it easier to do my scenery!

[@marklinofsweden]

+Andrew Simpson Thank you Andrew! Good to hear! 👍👍👍

[@andrewsimpson9781]

Are there any new utube videos coming up? Every one you make is very informative.

[@mikiasgebreselassie8209]

Hello there. .. I watched a lot of videos but yours is the best idea. Please more videos. Thanks.

[@marklinofsweden]

+Mikias Gebreselassie Thank you Mikias! 😊 More videos are in production. 👍

[@tanpuayleng6683]

Thank you for yr excellent tutorial.

[@TeutonicNordwind]

New sub here. That looked fantastic!

[@plto4ka]

Thanks for the great video!

[@carmillakarnstein691]

I am a professional modelrailroader and general modelmaker and I really like your tutorials videos! Congratulations!

[@marklinofsweden]

Thank you! I’m so happy you like the videos! 👍😊Hey.. Carmilla Karnstein.. Isn’t that same name as that ancient vampires? 🤔

[@carmillakarnstein691]

@@marklinofsweden, yes it's the name of the female vampire from Sheridan LeFanu gothic romance and my nickname in KZbin. I'm a brazilian Vampire Storyteller too! :) One kiss in your heart, but without bite! ;-)

[@malinikminiatures]

So helpful! Thanks!

[@HartmanSonsPaintingWallpaper]

That was great thank you for the tips

[@misosupe]

Let’s try doing this with a kato suspension viaduct track... But if I know anything, this channel has the nicest youtuber and the best diorama ideas.

[@honestgbfan5324]

awesome! as my son and i are taking a break after building the benchwork for our second and much larger layout, i have been looking for alternative forms of creating mountains. ive always thought of using glue for its flexible properties but could not think of a way to apply it. conventional methods would not work in my mind and you have the answer! not only is it much less expensive, but toilet paper will, as you show here, would work far better than paper towels. i watched this video a few times and noticed that a lot of simulated rock detail shows up already as you are gluing it into place. i found it to be just what i have been looking for as an alternative to the usual plaster soaked paper towels or plastercloth! and so much less "messy". great tutorial on each aspect shown as to the creation of mountain scenery for model railroading! d

[@marklinofsweden]

+honestgbfan Thank you very much for the positive feedback! 👍😊 Yes, the toilet paper works great and is always available and low cost. One need to be rather quick with the glue-water-mix wetted brush on the first layer and not try to brush the same paper twice. If you do it will stick better to your brush than to the aluminum mesh.. It's not a problem, only a matter of handling the brush right. Good luck with your layout!