Unusual Layout Materials

The cat whisker is the cats meow!. Pure gold.

My layout is going to more ad-hock than most for sure. I don't want it to necessarily be "better" just mine.

I've never grown out of my love for pine cone trees, wood thread spools, old screen, monopoly thimbles for baskets or buckets, etc.etc.  

  Containers- tanks- "rectangle"Nestles Quick, Goop, empty butane tanks on flower pot bottoms for stands & grates. Soup cans for tin roofs on a junk scout in the yard, and on the "yellow AF crane/bridge shack". A wheel-less MARX M-10005 car as a dinner has a raised kitchen ceiling section made of a soup can too. I just cut huge slots in the can till the car "sealed" to the can, then cut windows at the same height.

  A twig tree, scarcely foliaged with red, green, and brown Scotch-Bright tufts.(very "Who-ville")

Gotta be about 100 pieces of chopstick-lumber if I really counted. So I guess the local saw mill hasn't cut much in the way of a straight piece of structural lumber in quite some time. 

  A few of those air compressor blow gun fittings nobody knows what to do with & soda straws, for sewage plumbing. And every loose spacer/bushing/bearing that I had in my organizing drawers went into gondolas as load bits years ago. 

WOW

this is an unusual material.

The most unusual material I have used dry tea leaf for ground cover and bread crumbs for some figures.

Andre.

Pressed bread for dough as clay?

Yes.

AG

In a vignette now gone, I used dental floss painted yellow with some black smudges, to represent crime scene tape.  From any more than eight inches away it was perfect. 

This was supposed to post here but appeared in the coffee thread.

Ok. this wall is latex wood putty over masonite formed with bakery dept. brick molds from Wallmart. It never cracked like I hoped. Quite strong. Cinder block sized bricks, it was grey, but I wanted a red wall.

Wet paint. The whole wall and overhang slide up for access. The portals are the guides.