I wonder if I can get some examples from you guys about how to use Woodland Scenics ground cover in the right way. To be more specific:
Sometimes when I see a nice picture I wonder what has been used and why. You have turf, grass, flock, underbrush, bushes, clump foliage, lichen and so on. That makes my head spinning [?] So please post a photo and tell me what ground cover there is in the photo and why you did it that way.
Thanks in advance.
This is extruded foam painted with tan latex paint. While wet, sprinkled on WS ground foam of various colours (you pick what works for your eye), and added their ‘bushes’ later, each dipped in carpenter glue and placed (doesn’t take that long, honestly).
Make sure your latex paint is a very light tan. Whatever you pick, immediately go two shades lighter. Mine was a bit dark, and I used the method of identifying a shade, and moving lighter by two shades regardless. So it should work for you.
So, you paint an area (2’ X 2’ at most), and then sprinkle a medium-light dusting of colour A. Then get a blend, or another colour entirely, and do an over-dusting of that. I used fine and coarse turf. Add the bushes and/or trees later. If using foam, push a thin Philips head screwdriver into it first, then push in the tree armature/skewer.
Really, as I did, you have to teach yourself how, and you do it in a corner of the layout farthest from where you and others will be, or take a 1X1’ piece of foam and go to it.
This should be an interesting, creative, and fun part of your layout…unlike, say, soldering.