Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Finishing the green stuff!

Hi all, work is going on. First some fine turf overall:



After drying:

With the actors:



Now the bigger brushes. From my friend Martin Welberg from Martin Welberg Scenery I got some testmats and not-approved-for-sale mats. They came in very handy now. Tore them off and applied them with white glue:


Looks better already!:



He has a fine range of brushes so I applied some of them:


The mats:


The big brushes are in place:



Now its time for the finer stuff. One of my favourites to use are the Heki Flor and Microflor products:


Cut them in random pieces:



Then smaller pieces:


Apply dots of white glue:


Tear the little piece in all directions and after that drop it in the glue and form it a little with your fingers. The result is very good low growth:


With some flower tufts:


Ready for the grass fibers:



The grassfibers are applied with a static applicator from RTS. Its there 55 kV model and it works great up to 12 mm long fibers. Very easy to use, its power is a 9V block battery:


First lightbrown fibers:


Brown is all ready:


Starting with the green:


And ready:


All took me a good hour of work. Overall view:



Closeups. Middle:


Left corner:


Right corner:


The case needed a little more depth, applied a small strip of wood on the front:



Painted in the right colour:


And with the front screwed on:



Very happy with it! My friend Ronald (yes, same name!!) has a laser and is designing and making some typical ACW gate stuff so stay tuned. More to come!

Greetz, Ronald.

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