Realistic mountains ULTRA - Detailed Guide DIY 

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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!

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

Great method and great results. Thanks for sharing

Simply wonderful!!! Thank you from Italy!

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

Thank you Mark! Thank you for all your videos!

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

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

Easy and realistic. Plus light weight. Thanks.

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

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.

Looks incredible. Fantastic work.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Wow your work is magnificent and I enjoy a lot

Great tips there, many thanks my friend.

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.

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

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.

Amazing work... i can see this all day

incredible. I cant wait to try this technique

Excellent video, thank you so much!!

I just found your site. Mountains look awesome!

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!

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

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

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 :)

Great ideas and great video !!!

Looks amazing. Thank you!

Marvelous! Thanks for sharing.

Looks excellent!!

Superb tutorial. Thanks for showing!

this was super helpful, thank you!

Wonderful mountain work!

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.

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

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

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

Merci beaucoup pour tous ces bons conseils

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

Excellent work!!

Outstanding! Best one yet!

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!

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

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

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

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

Woo...so realistic. Amazing method

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

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

This tutorial is amazing, wish me luck!

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!!

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.

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

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

Very helpful. Thank you!

Congratulations! I learnt much with tutorial.

Very impressive work. Thank you.

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

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

Super tutorial! It will be usefull for me.

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

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

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

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.

Thank you for yr excellent tutorial.

Amazing thank you,you are a master

Thanks for the great video!

That’s brilliant!!

New sub here. That looked fantastic!

Good job! Very realistic.

So helpful! Thanks!

I am a french Maerklin fan and enjoy a lot your nice videos and tutorials kind greetings from France

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

That was great thank you for the tips