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Can you do this? I need some felled trees. Branches from my garden would be great (well, twigs really I guess). Is this a bad idea? When dried will they be ok for a long time or will something vile grow out of them ruining my display?
It's perfectly fine. If you really want to, stick them in a garbage bag and dose them with bug spray, leave for a week. What is not good is to use "edible" materials like seeds.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Many dioramists I've seen or read their methods use backyard "found" materials. Twigs, roots, dirt held in place with a white glue mixture.
Jef Verswyvel of Squadron introduced me to the technique of grinding leaves in a spice grinder (get your own - don't use the wife's) to make a leaf litter ground cover
Just make sure they are very dry. I would not dry them in a microwave- an item with very little moisture in it can be hard on the oven. I dry that kind of stuff in a toaster oven set at very low temp- say 200 degrees for a few minutes. I am about to do a base using dyed sawdust as grass. I use a lot of organic stuff.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Don Stauffer Just make sure they are very dry. I would not dry them in a microwave- an item with very little moisture in it can be hard on the oven. I dry that kind of stuff in a toaster oven set at very low temp- say 200 degrees for a few minutes.
Just make sure they are very dry. I would not dry them in a microwave- an item with very little moisture in it can be hard on the oven. I dry that kind of stuff in a toaster oven set at very low temp- say 200 degrees for a few minutes.
I second Don. I have roots from some evergreen shrubs I had to dig out of my yard. I saved them for making small bushes and shrubs on bases. But yes, make sure they are dried. I dried them in my regular oven, but that's all I have. And I would also seal them with a clear lacquer, to reduce the chance that they will absorb moisture.
As far as other organic materials go, I use old tea leaves, too. And I have some of GreenStuff World's leaf punches, which I use with dried leaves to punch out small leaf shapes. GM mentioned spices and herbs, too, which can work. But in each case, I would seal them as best I can.
Do not use flour or baking powder for snow.
The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.
the Baron GM mentioned spices and herbs, too, which can work.
GM mentioned spices and herbs, too, which can work.
Using edible ingredients is dangerous. I had a train I wanted to put together of these crappy old sugar beet gondolas that were run up and down the West Coast by the Southern Pacific. The railroad guys called the trains " da' roots".
Mile long things going about 5 miles an hour, easy to hop.
In N scale ( 1/160); how to model a two foot long ugly vegetable?
Brainstorm- carraway seeds!
Put false bottoms in a dozen cars (selective compression) and glued in the seeds. Put them on the tracks behind a lash up of some of the older weathered prime movers and dragged them into the yard at "San Luis Obispo".
The next time I went into the layout room; holy smokes, Hurricane Andrew!
Busted cars, buildings, and a lot of rat crap!
Learned my lesson!
Bill
I had to chuckle at that one, GM!
Thanks everybody. To GM's story, Rats!
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