I used to screen sawdust from my woodworking shop. It can be dyed any color you want
first, then dried and screened. You don't have to use the oven if you're not in any
hurry.
Tim Brown
----- Original Message -----
From: Don Thompson
To: Showcaseline e-group ; S Scale e-group ; S Train e-group
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 7:26 PM
Subject: [S-Trains] Re: scale dead leaves
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...."
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