Hi,
I’m looking to build a few bases (for Warhammer miniaures) depicting a long-stemmed grass bushes among rocks. Does nayone have any suggestions on achieving th long-stem grass look?
The only product i’m familiar with is the woodland scenics long grass, but I don’t find it is very realistic (or easy to work with on a 30 mm base)
I welcome any suggestions…
Thanks!
cisal rope or chord. Fray the ends and trim to spec. You can paint it and dry brush it to give you some nice effects. There are also some nice options found perusing the dried flower sections of craft stores. Several mosses, small flowers and decorative plants make for some nice scale foiliage.
i’ve used the scenic stuff and i thought it turned out pretty good,i used a styrofoam base and then folded the grass in half,then took a small flathead screwdriver and pushed the grass in at the fold,after that i used mustache scissors to trim the extra off.thats how i did it i hope this helps you out.
I used cheap garage brushes.
Tons a grass for under a buck!
Hi there
I face a similar problem with my minis. I have used all the typical standby products, including some kind of dried leafy ferm that you buy in big packages in the dried flower aisle at Micheals.
My approach has been to add them together to make the things I want. I have the typical short static grass (never have really mastered that, it just looks like curls of grasslaying flat in the glue. Where is the stand up when you blow on them part coming into this?)
Im including a pic of my Reaper 72MM Anubis using Woodland Scenics tall grass, the dried fern-ish leafy stuff I got at michaels, Static grass, fine sand and wire painted olive green with tan autoflocking added at the end for cattail reeds. If nothing else works youll wind up cutting very fine strips of paper and dying it green either with green watercolor paint or a marker. This often works in larger scales.
HTH
David
that brush idea looks great! unfortunately I need green vegitation - the wheat color will wash out my minis…
the michaels idea looks good, but i’m arfaid the mini-plants will not withstand wear and tear of day to day gaming 
You might be able to stain the bristles before cutting them off the brush- use different shades of green on different brushes (dip them in paint?). Brush all the paint off, let dry for a few days.
You could also plant unpainted bristles then airbrush, if you have one. If not, semi-dry brush the colors on. For thicker patches, perhaps the first idea would be easiest?
HTH,
Steve
I have had a really hard time with the Woodland Scenics long grass. I’m sure it works good, I just haven’t been able to get it to look right. I like using the cheap paint brushes. I’ve found that sticking them in paint the color that I want and washing them out stains the brush enough to make it look like grass or weeds.
I drag a bristle through some glue and stick it in the flock kind of grass and it looks like some kind of flowering weed.
Dave;
Another alternative that gives you lots of “grass” without needing to “plant” each stalk is taken from an article I read in Military Modeler years ago.
Take a piece of fake fur from a cheap stuffed animal and dye it the colour you require. Then just cut it to fit the base and mount the figure. You can trim the hairs to required height and give it a quick drybrush to vary the colour.
It really looks great. The article was for a diorama of a 1/35 scale Huey dropping a section of infantry into an elephant grass covered field.
Cheers;
Gregory
Personally I think SteveM has the easiset and cheapest idea. Use the paintbrush idea, and just dip it in diluted green paint, and get most of it off, so its not globby with stuck together bristles, but its “dyed” to the right color.