--- In [email protected], Jim and Cheryl Martin <farnhamhouse@...> wrote:
> 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. Hi Jim: I use it for that and more. I buy my tea loose. My current favorite pusher is David's Tea - http://www.davidstea.com/ - mentioned here only because they sell lots of loose tea and ship across North America (although I've never done that - I have a David's franchise up the street from me so I buy in person). After enjoying a cuppa, I dump the leaves out of the tea ball, onto a cookie sheet that lives in a window sill in my layout room. I scatter them on the sheet so they're in a thin layer, and let them dry thoroughly before putting them in a storage tub. In the winter, with the furnace running, they take about 24 hours to dry completely. Longer in the summer, what with higher humidity and all (but I drink less tea in the summer anyway). When it's time to use them, I might break them up in my fingers before scattering under trees... run through a blender (I bought a cheap one for the purpose) to scatter as general dead ground cover... or even blend then sift through a strainer if I'm looking for a "dirt" effect. - Trevor --- Port Rowan in 1:64 Building and blogging an S scale model of a 1950s Canadian National branch line terminal in Southern Ontario: http://themodelrailwayshow.com/cn1950s ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
