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The autumn red variant of the small bushes with leaves

A richly red rendition of the growth from the series in which the small bushes are set with real tiny leaves. The red shade recalls dogwood, sumac, brambles or wild grapevine, that is, the woody plants that color most strikingly in autumn of everything that grows in a landscape. In the package you will find a bundle of raw material from which the individual tufts are only then shaped.

Working it step by step

• cut a tuft from the dense bundle as needed
• thin the tuft out, so that an irregular outline arises
• anchoring is ensured by a drop of glue under the thickest branch
• sink the lower twigs below the level of the terrain
• fix the finished tuft with a fine overspray of thinned glue

A note on the composition of a scene

Red is an aggressive color in a landscape and draws the gaze to itself, so it pays to be sparing with it. It proves itself to use it as one or two accents near the main motif and to leave the rest of the growth in muted brown and olive tones. It stands out best against a dark background and next to gray or muddy hardware. The range of use starts at the TT gauge and continues into all larger scales.

Whom the growth will serve

Modelers of layouts, diorama makers and collectors who are building a display-case scene and looking for a color counterpoint to the prevailing green and brown. Believability is helped when a little fallen foliage in the same shade appears under the bush as well, because it is then evident where the color in the picture comes from.

The package contains plant material exclusively, not a finished bush, a base or glue.