Ground Cover & Static Grass
After carving the pink foam into shape, I painted the whole sur-
face with a tannish latex paint I found in the “mis-tint” bin at
the local hardware store. While the paint was still wet, I sprin-
kled some baked and fine-sifted tan and brownish dirt over
the whole area, followed by various fine-ground foams. After
misting with 70% isopropyl alcohol, I used a pipette to satu-
rate everything with a 50-50 mix of white glue and water. And
while that was still wet, I used my home-made 12V static-grass
applicator to lay down a mixture of Woodland Scenics (2mm)
and Heki (4mm) grasses. Free-moN Standards call for brown-
ish ground cover at the end plates to ensure color-palette
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13: A scene set in the Sonoma Wine Country in spring
isn’t complete without vineyards, cows, oak trees, and
rolling green hills flecked with yellow flowers. Never
having made any of those before, I chose the scene as
a challenge to my modeling skills.
