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The threads on trees, etc., made me think about this.  I have a definate order to how I prepare a landscape and all, and it occurred to me maybe others don't do it my way.

 

1) I made the rocks cliffs, hillsides, etc.

2) I paint them all over - ever square inch, with a medium brown flat latex.

3) I paint "rocks" granite gray or iron-rich orange of whatever . . 

4) I apply any "gravel" and beach sand (I use grey/brown ballast) or small rocks/scree - I paint only the area I want covered it it with yellow glue and pour in on, tamp it down, wait an hour and vacuum with a shop vac and recover 95%.  Pour it back in the bottle.

5) I apply all the short "grass" next, the 'flocking" as my wife calls it.  I use only Woodland Scenics.  Again, I paint yellow glue on where I want it and pour in on, tamp it down, wait an hour and vacuum with a shop vac and recover most for reuse.  Pour it back in the bottle.

- I do this for every color/shade of grass,

- starting with the lightest and going gradually to the darkest green

6) If I have water (I use the WS water, too, works well for me) I pour it on and let it flow out and harden overnight. 

6) I glue down bushes and scrubs, cutting the spongy whatever-it-is material or tearing it off into bush-sized portions and placing it where it looks good.

- Here I usually put down the largest bushes and scrubby areas first, moving to smaller scrubs and tiny weeds last.  This seems to make sense from both a standpoint of the scene (do the big first, then the small) and a practical reason: by the time I've torn off and done all the big pieces I have lots of tiny ones left!

7) I install and reeds, tall grass next, in bunches, along with cornstalks, thing like that. 

7) I install all the trees, starting with the largest first, and gradually moving down in size to the smallest.  I do this so I can look at the esthetics as I put smaller trees alongside/near the big ones.  

8) I put  wildlife - deer, bears, etc., into the scene next to last.  

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Lee 

 

This took a year + to get this small amount completed.

 

1st Beat up, carve and whacked a bunch of pink foam board into different size pieces..

2nd paint it all a flat color.

3rd paint it a bunch of other colors.

4th start adding basic colors of ground cover.

5th Put all the pieces of foam board together to form the mountains.

6th Completely covered the layout with the basic ground vegetation, grass, dirt weeds, ect.

 

That's just to get the very basics done.

 

More vegetation has been completed and of course continues.

 

Larry

 

Still having fun

 

 

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