Hobby Lab: Making Amazing Hedgerows The Easy Way!
April 11, 2014 by warzan
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Superb. I feel a trip to BnQ this weekend…
great tutorial already been to B&Q I’ve been sitting on the mats since the weekender, love this now if you’d excuse me I’ve some hedgerows and fields to make ^^
Magic wood. Good morning!
just a quick note, if you save all the fibres that fall off you can use them to make little hay stacks for 15mm, make a rough mound out of putty or foam, paint it brown/tan then cover it in pva and coat it in your mat fibres. Bam instant haystack.
Absolutely love these vids, they make me want to get my FoW army painted and actually played with! Any plans on doing these sorts of things for sci-fi terrain?
Great video, thank you guys for sharing.
Thanks for another brilliant video guys. Have to buy some of the weathering sprays at Salute this weekend.
Get in the queue
Thumbs up!
Now that studio 1 is up and running the videos are just getting better. These hobby lab vids along with Romain’s painting tutorials we have been getting every week are real quality assets.
They should be compulsory viewing for all new club members 🙂
That´s an awesome tutorial! I´m going right now to buy some door mats and spray! Thank you guys!
Was wondering how long it would be before @warzan made the bush joke 🙂
Great vid guys
Great Vid guys. I think the hedges look amazing. The way I look at the different colours are the more vibrant green can be summer hedge. The army painter green hedge leans towards an Autumn board. and the natural mat colour with a little weathering spray can be used on a desert board. could even skip a lot of the green and go down the road of browns and have winter hedge for the Bulge campaign.
nice one.Cheap way to do loads of terrain
Another little tip is to use slightly watered down PVA and fine flock as a final stage. It makes the strips a little less flexible but the look great, like many store brought hedges. (this also works on bottle-brushes to make trees).
Cool tutorial guys! 🙂
I agree with Avernos who beat me to it but as mentioned to you at salute don’t throw strands away they are good for all kinds of haystacks. There are a few tutorials around but essentially just a cone shape of polystyrene and some Pva and voila instant haystacks ;0)
Another great video. I love the cost effective ideas. My only concern now is how much are the modelmate sprays?
The green mat you are using in the video. Is that an illustrious Citadel battle Mat that is now no longer available?
Lots of my stuff just happens to be steel-ruler-width…
I can’t get ModelMates sprays over here, I think I’ll try this with watered down inks or something.
Superb tutorial gents, the hedges are mint!!!
Hedgetastic.
LOL “untamed bush”
Awesome guide! Now its time to find some mats. Hope I can find them in the right hight !
Has anyone tried the astro turf that you can get these days? It no longer looks like the weird been grocers material you used to get on stalls down the market, but has all sorts of colour variation. It’s more expensive of course but can be bought in varying lengths from 10mm to 30 plus the rubber backing from about £10 a square metre (which would do a crazy amount of hedges) and should mean a lot less spraying.
I’m late to the game, but I’m going WILLINGLY to IKEA to pick up two mats in the near future!
Man, i’m glad i re-discovered this ( stumbled upon it in amongst the tutorial suggestions ).