Not sure if this topic belongs here or if it needs to goto the workshop.
I will be working on some topics regarding terrain tips and model making in the future and it would be handy if they had a place on the forum that would be easy to reference and find.
Making Model Bushes Quickly
Buy a topiary ball, these range in size and price and can be bought relatively cheaply from garden centres. The two I bought cost £15 each.
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Each ball makes 80 large bushes which equated to just under 19p each.
Buy some cocktail sticks and paint them green, slide the foliage on the cocktail stick and glue in place. You can easily make different sizes and can add flock or sponge flock to the cocktail sticks to hide the centre of the foliage.
Large bushes
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Small bushes
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Integrated with scenery with individual foliage stem to create weed
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Base accordingly. Sometimes the foliage can be shiny, spraying it with Tamiya flat clear resolves this issue. If required you can spray paint the foliage different colours also.