You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to our forum and pics features. By joining our free community, you will be able to participate in the discussions, search the forum, send private messages, vote in polls, upload your own pictures and movies to the galleries or your personal album, and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free, so sign up today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact support.
Easy to install tall grass, marsh grass , prarie tufts
I was trying to come up with a way to make some grass tufts and maybe some marsh grass for my layout , I bought some woodland scenics tall field grass, but I couldn't get it right on the layout to save myself. So I finaly came up with this method that's easy and works great.
What you will need is some tall field grass, heat shrink tubing and white glue. I used the assorted heat shrink tubing from Radio Shack.
First in pic 1 I sort out some grass and cut some small heat shrink tubing in short lengths.
Then in pic 2 I gather a bundle of grass, put a dab of white glue on my finger and gently twist the ends together.
In pic 3 after the glue sets for a minute or two I trim thends of the grass bundles.
In pic 4 slide the heat srink tubing on the grass bundle to the desired finished length. Then carefully shrink the tubing. A small match or close soldering iron can do this.
Then as pic 5 shows trim the tubing to length.
You can make different size grass tufts by using larger tubing. pic 6
Then just simply drill a small hole where you want them and "plant" them,
just like a potted plant from the nursery , just use a little glue instead of potting soil. pic 7
Pic 8 is just a little cheesecake shot. Got to show off the Nscale.org car.
Enjoy !
__________________
Bob.
Last edited by cactusbob : 10-02-2009 at 07:16 PM.
Wow Bob that a super mega tutorial, big compliments for your ingenius idea with the skrink tubing!!! Five stars and a rep!!
I will try this methode one day for sure
Thank you very much Bob!
If you wanted to even the tips of the hair you would use something like this:
In the fly tying world its called a "Hair Stacker" and is used to even the tips of natural hair. The tips go in the top, tips down, and you tap it on something solid.
Then you remove the top of the stacker and hair all at once, grab the hair and trim the butt ends to the length you want.
Why bother with all of this?
Natural hair comes to a natural taper at the tip and stuff looks better with that taper. (weeds too)
In our world the tips of the hair would be the tops of the weeds and the butt ends would be what we glue to the layout.
more info HERE.
Ok,,,,,,,way more than you wanted to know but there it is anyway.
Thanks for the compliments and commemts everybody !
I've seen a lot of your work and I am totaly awestruck . So to get such good feed back from you is a great honor.
And one more time Bobthebear, great news about Kathy , I hope everything stays well.
__________________
Bob.
Last edited by cactusbob : 05-13-2009 at 10:34 PM.
Linear Mode
