Can any of you suggest a way to model a cotton field in N scale? For bales of cotton I use small blocks of styrofoam, but modelling an actual field, or even a single plant, has me stumped! Thanks for any suggestions you may be able to provide.
When madeling cottin, are you wanting to model the green cotton or a field that has the bowls open? I am from S.W. Okla. and we grow a lot of cotten here. Let me know what you are shooting for and I will try to help. Mike
Thanks very much for replying. I’m visualizing a field of white cotton, so I guess that would be with the bolls open. My layout’s set in flat southwestern Georgia and focuses on peaches and cotton. I have a kitbashed model of a cotton gin with space for a small cotton field nearby. Having such a field on my layout would add an appropriate regional touch. Thanks so much for any ideas you may have!
OK I have made wildflowers using WS medium folage, I think the operation should be about the same. Lay out your rows (I have used a fine dirt and take an old comb to make the rows) Use small amounts of the folage to make the green plant, Don’t make them to big. After the glue dries, use a very small paint brush and white paint and just bairly touch the tops of your cotton. this should work, see if anyone else has any more ideas. Do not forget the cotton stripper and modual builder. Hopes this works. Mike
Thanks, Mike, I sure appreciate it. I’ll definitely try it and let you know the results. Thanks again!
I have seen WHITE ground foam used to represent flowers. I wonder if you could use it with a mostly green plant. (I thought that was what mikesmowers was leading up to–)
White ground foam might be used for the cotton mess that accumulates around gins, etc…