I've never had the color leaching problem, and I've used water-based adhesives to glue them in place. Almost all the tea coloring will leach out when you make the tea. I've always used tea leaves that were already used for making tea, even though I don't drink any form of tea myself anymore.
Dave Heine Easton, PA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Nielsen Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Tea Leaf Ground textures Follow-up Another use for spent tea leaves is representing bark on trees, especially pine trees made with balsa trunks. I have an associate whose On30 layout has several of them and the effect is quite convincing. As for using tea leaves for ground cover, doesn't the tea color wick out into the water-based adhesive (matte medium or diluted white glue) and stain the surrounding ground cover? Bill in FL ------------------------------------ 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/
