I saw this on the CRRofNJ modelers group and thought it was pretty interesting. Don Thompson
"...Lou Sassi's Tree Group has one of the best methods of creating forest ground cover I've seen; they use finely ground up leaves. You start with a handful or two of leaves and put these into a blender with water. Turn it on and grind this into a fine slurry. Empty the contents into an old T Shirt in the sink. Wrap the stuff and squeeze out as much water as possible. Then spread the ground up leaves on a cookie sheet and put them into the oven 250 degrees or so and let them dry this way. I found I had to open the door to let humidity out and turn them occasionally. It took about an hour or so and smelled pretty good too. Once this stuff is dry, pick out the big stems and then sift/strain the leaves through various size strainers. You will have made almost scale size dead leaves for ground cover. You pre-wet the ground before applying the leaves and then spray glue them in place as you would any fine ground cover. Add small bushes and sapling afterwards, some rocks, dead branches, you know what it looks like. Keller's GReat Model RR's video on Lou Sassi's layout has a fantastic scenery clinic in it, shows the leaves and all of the other methods he and his scenery group uses. MR did a three or four part series by Lou's Tree Group about a decade or so ago. Hope this helps, while I never completly sceniked my old layout, I did a few areas with this method and the results were pretty amazing and very Northeast realistic. Now any fast methods of making 2,759,962,572 realistic deciduous trees that don't look like puff balls!?!?!?!? There's something to be said for desert scenery...." S-Trains list sponsor: http://www.americanflyertrains.com All the Flyer you desire...books and accessories too! To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
