A pine Cone Forest
This will be the last post on pine cones, I promise!
Below are three varieties of pine cones. The first two photos shows regular pine cones with closed and open types.
This third photo shows Banksia cones which have a more subtle look. The two problems I had with these were firstly, disguising the large seed pods with enough flock and secondly, after a couple of years they can break off at the base but they are not hard to glue back. One of them has been hotglued to some bark. you could make the seeds prominent and paint them a different color or even as eyes if you wanted a science fiction or fantasy look. However, the seeds are only barely perceptible here.
I used liberal amounts of PVA glue for the initial sawdust coating and then, after painting, the flock; I used darker flock for the trees nd lighter for the ground. The PVA is useful to strengthen the trees as the fibres are delicate and can break off.
The cones themselves cost me nothing; the only expense was the glue, flock and paint. Obviously I'm not going to fluff around with little bottles of model paint for this. (It would take a whole bottle of GW pint to paint one or two trees!). I used acrylic house paint for the ground and a cheap green enamel spray for the trees. Use the enamels last to avoid any chance of them eating intoexposed portions of polystyrene. Be careful what glues you use for gluing the pine conesto the bases if the bases are polustyrene. One glue I used ate big craters under the trees! Hot glue from a glue gun was no problem.
If you want to save on the expense of using commercil flock just dry brush the sawdust with light greens.
Below are three varieties of pine cones. The first two photos shows regular pine cones with closed and open types.
I used liberal amounts of PVA glue for the initial sawdust coating and then, after painting, the flock; I used darker flock for the trees nd lighter for the ground. The PVA is useful to strengthen the trees as the fibres are delicate and can break off.
The cones themselves cost me nothing; the only expense was the glue, flock and paint. Obviously I'm not going to fluff around with little bottles of model paint for this. (It would take a whole bottle of GW pint to paint one or two trees!). I used acrylic house paint for the ground and a cheap green enamel spray for the trees. Use the enamels last to avoid any chance of them eating intoexposed portions of polystyrene. Be careful what glues you use for gluing the pine conesto the bases if the bases are polustyrene. One glue I used ate big craters under the trees! Hot glue from a glue gun was no problem.
If you want to save on the expense of using commercil flock just dry brush the sawdust with light greens.
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