I was thinking…Does any of you many modelers out there know how to simulate 1/35 scale leaves???I was thinkin of putting a tank–haven’t decided(maybe knocked out), and it being covered in leaves and crap. If any of you know how to create some, let me know! 
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This should do the trick: http://www.rjproducts.com/Catalogs/Hudson_and_Allen_Studio/Hudson_and_Allen_Studio.html
I’ve also heard of guys who have used tea leaves to do this.
Haven’t tried it yet myself but something I do intend on trying one of these days.
Tea leaves from herbal teas have a greater variety of sizes and refinement for want of a better word so they usually have a few larger sticks and twigs for that forest debris litter look.
Tea leaves from tea bags are usually smaller and more consisten in shape for a mre uniform material.
Several phot etch makers can als do leaves .
Cheers, Pete.
yeah, go tea leaves. Cheap stuff. Great stuff. Can give a nice fragnance to your model too. LOL
I have seen oregano used.
Great for Mediterranean theatre of operation dioramas, Oregano is. Wonderful stuff too!
The Hudson and Allen leaves look really good and are even shaped like oak leaves. They would be very convincingand are also a good color already too. I have a bag but haven’t actually used them yet, guess I need to build a dio huh?
Eric
I always worry about using something organic on a model. Do you have any problems with critters or decomposition?
Hey, what an idea. Put some “goodies” on a tank and let some beatles, etc move in. Put a few scale Japanese guys there, and you’d have a convincing recreation of one of those Japanese destruction of Tokyo movies with properly scaled out bugs!! Throw an iguana in and you’ve got it made!! lol
Bill
Steve,
How long were you in Deutchland? Why and when were you there? I was stationed near Kaiserslautern from 83 to 86. Man 20!! years ago. I’m really getting old!
Bill
wipw, 1st post great! I love those movies! 2nd post: I was at Idar- Oberstien '85-'86. Near Baumholder. We sure breathed some of the same air, huh? C-6/29 F.A.
Beav
I have used tea leaves before, and the “critters” have not touched them, although the paint and lacquer I used may turn them off. However, I have recently discovered that the local variety of cockroach just loves Verlinden maps[:(]
I had stored some dios in cardboard boxes, due to lack of space (always is a problem, hey). I had two where I had used maps strategically placed; One where a group of officers were looking over a map on the front of a SdKfz 250, the other with a couple of maps stuffed in between the dash and grab handle of an anphib jeep. Recently I discovered a couple of dead cockies inside the boxes, and all but the bit of the maps where the glue was were missing!
Need to store my stuff in airtight boxes if I have to put 'em in the garage I suppose.
My tea leaves, oregano leaves and other herbs I have used on diorames have - apparently - never suffered from any sort of attack from any growing or crawling lifeforms… But then I always paint the stuff anyway…
You might want to try saw dust as well, preferably with some size to the pieces.