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Offline Rossyuk

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Cotton plantation
« on: January 19, 2020, 10:25:47 AM »
Has anybody any suggestions on how to model cotton fields. I have just ordered the Sarissa derelict mansion to go with my Dracula Americas confederates. so looking to make some fields of cotton.

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Re: Cotton plantation
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2020, 01:31:17 PM »
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Re: Cotton plantation
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2020, 04:54:36 PM »
It does depend at what point you want to represent your fields - at full cotton harvest time or still green but with some white bits showing.  If the former, lots of white bits on pretty dry plants, if the latter, mostly green with just a bit of white here and there.  Just google: images of cotton fields - and go from there.

Offline Digits

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Re: Cotton plantation
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2020, 05:15:49 PM »
In full “flower” they look almost completely white.    I’d be stick down rows of small bits of a grey green lichen then dab on white snow flock.

Offline Pan Marek

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Re: Cotton plantation
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2020, 07:36:16 PM »
Go to google images.  Put in:  cotton picking.    You will see that mature cotton plants are about waist high.
The stems at this point are brown.  The plants are bushy.   
I thought about it long and hard, and eventually bought pre-made cotton plants for RR terrain.   2 boxes made one fie;d of about 8 x 11.
Of course, if you want to make more, it would get mighty expensive.

I like the lichen idea-  with one big change:   Look around for brown lichen.