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Modelling => Scenery => Topic started by: Doug Dickson on June 24, 2015, 10:45

Title: Climbing plants
Post by: Doug Dickson on June 24, 2015, 10:45
Hullo,

As a newbie here I have had a lot of pleasant reading to do, and offer the following as a response to means of modelling creeping/climbing plants posted in June 2014.

I currently model OO Standard Gauge, so my methods should suit the OO9 scene.

For vertical climbing plants I use Woodland Scenics 'Foliage F51 & F52', a fine web of coloured flock which can be pulled out and rolled or applied as a stretched open covering. I use dried twigs, [often the dried stems of Thyme] to form the lower stems of the plants.
 
I glue these to the building with UHU solvent-free or super glue.

I stretch, roll and shape my F51/52 into the form I want to go around windows etc, and then lay the 'mat' onto a dinner plate on which I have spread a thin film of diluted PVA. I press the material firmly into the glue and leave it a couple of minutes under a convenient weight to absorb the PVA, when it becomes less springy and more manageable. Then I pick it up with tweezers and press it in place. A few sprinkles of the material that falls off the web fills any gaps.



I hope the attachments below illustrate the waffle above and help someone.

Doug
Title: Re: Climbing plants
Post by: Hugh Norwood on June 24, 2015, 11:18
That looks really effective. Thanks for the tip!