Originally Posted by Mike Donahue:
I have used a couple different methods for the grass.
1) I put sawdust in plastic zip-lock bags, then mixed some Rit dye and poured it in the bags. I sealed the bags and then kind of tipped them around until all the saw dust was dyed. I then spread it out on a plastic sheet and dried it under a heat lamp. It worked, but was time consuming and messy.
2) The next time, I just painted the plywood and sprinkled on sawdust while the paint was wet. This was much easier and came out reasonably well.
I'm pretty sure that Kevin Coyle (whose layout we were all admiring in another thread) used method #1 to do his grass. Also recall him saying that it was, indeed, time consuming and messy.
