How to use Woodland scenics turf/flock/grasses and similar

[Dr. The Viking]

Thank you for that most thorough of answers my good Captain!

I really like your point about the after detail bits. I shall attempt it tomorrow when the sun has risen.

[Hammers]

OK I tried doing a test piece now... I mixed up some different kinds of stuff and put i on using watered down glue.



I still think it looks a bit dull...


Any ideas for improvement?

More of this?! Less of that?

I would make build ups of taller grass around the large rocks and, if it is a part of the board the ruin. Certain tall grasses, herbs and ferns thrive around rocks.



Speaking of ruins, ruined buildings plonked down on the game board without any rubble around it looks rather odd.

Nice flowers. How did you do them?

[Plynkes]

Speaking of ruins, ruined buildings plonked down on the game board without any rubble around it looks rather odd.

Depends how old the ruins are supposed to be. Perfectly common if they are hundreds of years old. The rubbly bits are the easiest to pinch if you are looking for stone to build yourself a new cowshed. You see it everywhere with the remnants of castles and monasteries in the UK. If it just got blown up yesterday, not so much.

[Hammers]

Depends how old the ruins are supposed to be. Perfectly common if they are hundreds of years old. The rubbly bits are the easiest to pinch if you are looking for stone to build yourself a new cowshed. You see it everywhere with the remnants of castles and monasteries in the UK. If it just got blown up yesterday, not so much.

You have a point but even with the good bits gone I have yet to see an excavated ruin sitting perfectly square on the ground. I speak with some authority here since I live in a town not so much built on the ground as on itself. 

[Tsune]

I place the turf/grasses in a very similar way that Cpt. Blood (probably becuase I have learnt looking at the forum  ), sealing it with Scenic Cement too (but beware, use a very thin mist spray or you can blow the turf out ).

And as Hammers posted, I think that is very realistic to put grass and herbs around the rocks in a ruin. I have built mine recently :

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=20102.msg244641#msg244641

altought it is suposses to be a los city in the jungle, I think that your ruins are very "neat". Probable it would be covered with some moss, plants and herbs here and there.

[Dr. The Viking]

Hmm I should have mentioned that I just took a random terrain tile that I had on the shelf and flocked it. No thoughts about the ruins themselves.

Your lost world is REALLY looking the part though!