Shoofly free-moN module - 1
continuity between modules, but I wanted the Shoofly scene to
portray Sonoma in the spring, so I quickly graduated the grass
from browns at the edges to greens for most of the module.
Animal paths and hiking trails were created by dragging the
smooth top end of a pair of tweezers through the static grass
before it dried. (14)
Later I went back and added more fine-sifted gravel and
“churned mud” (craft paint and Durham’s Water Putty) to the
construction areas. The swaths of yellow blossoms on the
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14: A late 1800s home-built wooden boxcab pulls
a reefer and a pair of ventilated boxcars past some
towering oak trees. The ground cover includes several
shades of fine-sifted real dirt, gravel, various colors
of ground foam and a blend of 2mm and 4mm static
grasses.
MRH-Feb 2013
