Dirt, of course, is dirt cheap. Use a dollar-store sieve (not the
one in the kitchen!) to separate the “other stuff,” leaving you
with the fines, which you can then sprinkle over wet earth-
colored paint. Articles abound, so a bit of searching should
give you more than you ever wanted to know about using
the real thing for model dirt.
What you put on top of that will depend on what you’re
modeling, so I won’t go into much more detail. If you’re
thinking about arid desert, you’re just about set – the odd
tumbleweed and Joshua tree or saguaro cactus. Forests,
on the other hand, mean trees, which are expensive when
bought, so you will have to start out just “suggesting” the
12. Even though
individual
modules are
small, when
you snap them
together, you
can get quite
interesting
scenes.
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$500 layout 3rd place - 10
MRH-Oct 2014
