Marumba Marumba! Jungle jungle jungle!
Fern herding... or something like that
All shoots, no laddersI couldn’t wait and drove an hour from my home to try and get a package of HO scale ferns from JTT at a train hobby store. That mission was a failure but I made the executive decision to buy some other flowering plants to add color and variety as well as ground dead leaves online. Its summer in my neck of the woods so not the right season to just go get dried leaves outside.
Its an impulse buy admittedly but the project must go on and be absolutely entrancing. Ok, that may be a little over the top but I do think that the “bases and faces” statement by our resident Squirrelmaster (avernos) on the XLBS was on point for attention grabbing. I suck at the latter so I’ll beat face and takes people’s lunches with the former.
The basecoat of VMC Green RLM72 (71.263) for the fern has been a success and has been built up with RMP Christmas Wreath (09658 – a seasonal promo I think), VMC Deep Green (70970) and then VMA Escorpina Green to highlight. I think it came out pretty well
The way it stands out made me aware of what kind of other space needed to be filled under the work to be done. I’ll sacrifice a few of the leaves from another plant to give a sense of realism with some dead fallen fronds.
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