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  • Member since
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  • From: AandF in the Badger State
Posted by checkmateking02 on Thursday, August 30, 2012 2:23 PM

I would agree with PlastickJunkie.  Below is one of my other interests, 1/6 scale soldiers.  The Marine on the left is said to be Chesty Puller (but its really the actor who played him in "The Pacific" TV series).  You can see in the background how I made some scenery props with crafty-type foliage, although I think this stuff was specifically palm branches that some churches give away on Palm Sunday.

Michaels craft store has a lot of stuff to choose from.  Some of it is actual plant life, dried or othewise preserved.  Some of it is plastic, which looks like, well, plastic--but you can spray it with a coat of Dull-cote or something similar to minimize the plasticity of it's appearance.

Alas, you probably will have to plant your plants one by one by one by one by one by. . .

Good luck, and good gardening.

 

 

 

 

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  • From: back country of SO-CAL, at the birth place of Naval Aviation
Posted by DUSTER on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:58 AM

   it's a long and lonely  existence we modelers have to suffer through for our art

Steve

Building the perfect model---just not quite yet  Confused

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    January 2009
  • From: Oregon
Posted by falschimjager on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:24 PM

Here I was hoping for an easy way out, ah well, It looks like I'll have to go through and do it well rather than wrong. Thanks for the help.

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    November 2008
  • From: Central Florida
Posted by plasticjunkie on Sunday, August 26, 2012 11:17 AM

Pay a visit to your local craft shop like Hobby Lobby, Michaels etc. You never know what you are gonna find in the dried flower section.  Hmm You usually find a lot of dried stuff that will make excellent vegatation. On a non related topic note, the last time I went to Michaels looking for dried thingies, I found a Badger Anthem AB sealed in its plastic black box for $30 (reg price $150)  in the clearance rack! Never found new dried thingies this time but walked out with one hell of a fantastic deal!Big Smile

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Sunday, August 26, 2012 4:51 AM

I think you can buy mats of tall grass, but from what i ahve seen, these mats don't look very realistic. As Bronto says, theres no shortcut.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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    November 2004
  • From: Cat Central, NC
Posted by Bronto on Saturday, August 25, 2012 6:59 PM

No shortcut I know of other than to individually "plant" the tall grasses.  

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  • From: Oregon
Tall Grass Help
Posted by falschimjager on Friday, August 24, 2012 12:26 PM

How do you guys do large fields of tall grass or wheat? (Think a Normandy field). I'd use my methods for smaller grass patches and shorter grass but neither works for what I have to do. 

Thanks for the help.

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