After a nearly week long hiatus from actual layout work, I was back downstairs yesterday. I tried my hand at a new technique. It has actually been around for a long time, but I've never done it before. This hair-like material came from Woodland Scenics. It looks almost like static grass, but it isn't.
I just grab a pinch of it, making sure that the top ends have a variety of lengths.
A quick snip evens up the bottoms...
and they're ready for planting in a dollop of hot glue
Then you fluff them up a bit when the glue cools, and they look like this.
I spent the better part of five hours working on just a two square foot area.
Still not quite satisfied, but it's getting better.
Did a little ballasting.
Got a few more trees planted in the triangle, and covered up the missing piece of backdrop.
The overall effect.
This was a bad shot for the grass demo, but I love the low angle close up.
