Governor’s mansion

[Hammers]

Several things:

Use a mixture of static grass and sawdust flock.
Mix several colour of the above.
Airbrush patches of the applied flock with a lighter or yellowish colour.
Apply tufts.

[Belisarius]

Stunning

[gamer Mac]

I have static grass but it never seems to look that good over large areas. I have never seen an applicator. Do they work?
I am wanting it to look a bit more like a well tended lawn in front of the mansion

[Dolmot]

Maybe grass mat is what you need? That, in turn, may look even a bit too regular, but usually you can fix that with light drybrushing and blending the edges with loose static grass.

[zizi666]

I have static grass but it never seems to look that good over large areas. I have never seen an applicator. Do they work?
I am wanting it to look a bit more like a well tended lawn in front of the mansion

I guess they work or else they wouldn't keep selling 'em.
There are other ways though.
I tend to grab a brush or ballpen and rub it over my sweater or trousers to "load" it. (best would be some plastic rod rubbed over wool.)
Then slowly move it over the applied grass. you'll see the leaves stand up.
Also try not to cover the whole area with glue. leave some small patches which will show the underground. You could eventualy fill these with dead/dried static grass, Although for a governor's mansion I could see you'd want that spotless look.
Also, as someone already said, use a mixture of different types of static grass and use different mixtures on different areas. This will help to prevent that uniform look.

[Grimmnar]

I have static grass but it never seems to look that good over large areas. I have never seen an applicator. Do they work?

You need a Grassanator. :-)

Grimm

[Hammers]

You're not going for quick and easy are you, Mason.

[Dr. The Viking]

@Mason

Do you have any photos of projects which demonstrates this method?

[CyberAlien312]

I really love that house! It's fantastic in every way! 

[OSHIROmodels]

Mix and match Colin, pretty much like most of the suggestions already mentioned.

What you really want is to split the banking and have one half with really tall grass and the other with really short grass. Then find a civvy figure with a pair of large scissors and have him at the join pretending to cut the grass 

cheers

James

[Dr. The Viking]

Mix and match Colin, pretty much like most of the suggestions already mentioned.

What you really want is to split the banking and have one half with really tall grass and the other with really short grass. Then find a civvy figure with a pair of large scissors and have him at the join pretending to cut the grass 

cheers

James

Haha! That's an awesome idea!

[gamer Mac]

Mix and match Colin, pretty much like most of the suggestions already mentioned.

What you really want is to split the banking and have one half with really tall grass and the other with really short grass. Then find a civvy figure with a pair of large scissors and have him at the join pretending to cut the grass 

cheers

James

Thats really helpful
 

[dodge]

A great piece of work Colin

well done 

dodge

[OSHIROmodels]

Thats really helpful
 

Jolly good 

cheers

James

[Mason]

You're not going for quick and easy are you, Mason.

It does not require any real effort, just drying time for the wash, and a little drybrushing.
I think the end result is worth it, though.

@Mason

Do you have any photos of projects which demonstrates this method?

I do not have any handy pics that show this to full effect for a nice clean lawn, but I have found a pic showing the process up to the level of the first drybrush after the 'dirty water' wash.
(The wash is used as I find static grass is too shiney and unnatural looking).
This drybrush was of a more 'wheat' colour, as I wanted to give the impression of an untended graveyard.






A brighter, 'fresher' choice of greens for the drybrush would give a cleaner appearance and would be more appropriate for a lawn.
You can see that I have left some of the 'earth' underneath exposed.
For a lawn, you would obviously not leave this exposed, but it does show what it would look like if the grass was to be rubbed off during use.

Hope that this is of some help...