Hedgerow material

Actually the best thing is the real thing all you have to do is go out and start pulling up various roots until youve found a suitably dense one. I'm not a plant expert so I don't know specie's but I find the low to the ground dense bushes they plant around apartments and business building's to be very effective. Once you have that and its been cleaned and fairly dry you go to the supermarket and look in the spice section and find dried leafy spices. Once you have the colors that will work well for you take and crush them down to a suitable scale then with a bowl of white glue and water hold the root inverted and dip it in then with a bowl of the spice leafs next to it dip the root in that and shake the excess out. You probably wont even have to paint it but you should use dullcote or something similar to seal it once it has dried. Hope this will help good luck.

Hedgerows are trees and bushes that are growing in a dense formation along the edge of fields making a natural barrier. They will sometimes have remnants of older fencing mixed up but also the root density and growth will sometimes force or draw ground material up as well making a sort of ridge.

I'd build up your base a bit into a ridge and then arrange your foiliage (I think in this case even the moss used in rr foiliage schemes would work since it looks like dense brambles or brush) along the built up ridge in a very compact pattern. You can spead some smaller foiliage out into your field and it will present a convincing hedgerow. There are occasionaly access gates or passageways into adjacent fields or roadways.

As cplchlly pointed out the roots of woody plants make great scale trees and even have scale bark pattern to add to the effect.

Mike

In my terrain modeling book, the author mentions using rubberized horsehair...looked pretty realistic to me.

hey jeeves, i think ive got the same book as you, isit called terrain modeling?

Yup... the author is Windrow I believe...great book!

Quick question....what's rubberized horsehair?

From this site: http://www.stephen.a.morton.btinternet.co.uk/twws/rankandfile.htm


Blocks of rubberized horsehair can be purchased from upholstery suppliers; these can be cut into strips using a scalpel or very sharp scissors, to form rough irregular hedges. In order to complete your hedge, either use paint or cover the "hedge" with spray a d hesive or dilute PVA before covering with flock or scenic scatter. Shake off the excess and allow to dry. If necessary, repeat to form a thicker covering before sticking to your chosen base material. If you cannot find horsehair blocks, try using block s of low-density foam rubber, (car wash sponges) the lower the density, the larger will be the holes and therefore the hedge will look rougher and more natural.

Ahhh...gotchya, thanks for the explaination.