Must remember grub dust. Get that myself. cheers
To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:08:11 -0800 Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Ground textures Follow-up Hi Alex: I have some very fine brown sand which, after years of use, I am now running out of, and I can't for the life of me remember what patch of ground I found it on. To me sand is like ball point pens and cats...nobody ever actually pays for em, they just pick them up somewhere, right? Anyway I like to put a thin base of this sand under my ground foam when I'm doing scenery work. You mentioned tea leaves. Newly-minted S scaler Trevor Marshall always has a stash of spent tea leaves drying near his scenery supplies. He uses it to represent freshly tilled earth. Back to me...I can't pass up free scenery textures. I have a container full of what I call "grub dust". It's the fine sawdust left behind by the insects that bore into my firewood supply. I found a mess of it splitting logs one day. I also have some fine "toasted oak" particles given to me by my friends who run the local wine making store. I even have some ancient, brown-dyed sawdust from the pre-ground foam days., It still works very well as forest floor covering under my pine trees. Jim Martin From: Alex Binkley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2012 11:14:24 AM Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} FNF January 2, 2012 Follow-up Hi Jim: got me wondering about the sand. what if you painted say a sandy brown over styrofoam or plywood and then sprinked some of this art sand (sounds interesting) and then some ground foam in hopes of creating kind of scrub land. ALso I know tea bags, used to make that wonderful beverage then opened and left to dry out make good material for scattering in wooded areas. Never tried it but could be ground up and used around lumber cutting areas etc, methinks cheers
