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Here for the smaller cedar shrubs, same technic, painted and dip into the green saw dust. |
The dark green color in the mixture is done with MDF sawdust, (Medium-Density Fiberboard), I had read somewhere that MDF was not a good candidate to create this kind of dyed foliage, it is far from the opposite, it stain very well, dip the dust 24 hours in Dylon and follow instructions. |
For smaller shrubs or when you don't have time to turn a balsa piece, just use the tiny Styrofoam balls, they can be detach easily without breaking if you take your time. |
For the brown shrubs, I've mix some green, un-dye MDF and a little quantities of orange foam, the woodland scenic stuff or any equivalent, it's just that I did not have any orange powder done in my inventory. |
The powder use for the cedars is homemade, it is a mixture of 3 kind of colors (more detail on the right and bellow), I've used a real cedar leaf to do the color analysis. |
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About 20% of pale neon green. |
About 70% of dark forest green. |
About 10% of a tan green, mostly piece of saw dust that did not take the color very well, they are also biger in size, those are the parts sticking out in the photo on the final trees. I've used different size of sieves to obtain different stock of green saw dust. From MDF to plywood to pine. |
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