Brambles - Spring

Brambles - Spring for the overgrown edges of a scene

Brambles - Spring is a scenic material by Woodland placed among low vegetation. The name designates it as brambles in a spring form, that is as the climbing, tangled growth that in nature overruns the edges of land. It is not a model and not a kit, but an element with which a diorama is finished.

The transition between areas decides credibility

Most scenes fall apart exactly where two areas meet: where a track ends and a meadow begins, where the wall of a barn touches the ground, where a ditch passes into a field. In nature that junction is always overgrown, because that is precisely where nobody tends the vegetation. Tangled low growth is the best tool for hiding such a transition and at the same time for giving a scene a story of neglect. A sharp line between two surfaces, by contrast, is the first thing a viewer recognizes as a model.

Where to place the growth

• Along fences, walls and at the feet of buildings, where in nature nothing is ever mown.
• Into the corners and at the edges of dioramas, where the area ends and the view has to be closed off.
• At the edges of tracks and ditches, at the junction of a paved area and a lawn.
• In the places where you want to hide the joint between two terrain textures or the edge of a base.
• Fix with PVA glue and, with taller elements, hold them while they dry so that they do not slump.

Who the material is for

For modelers who build overgrown rural and abandoned scenes, and for players for whom overgrown edges of terrain elements make hiding the edges of a board easier. The work is simple, but it pays to think the placement through before an element is glued down.

Look for the volume of the package, the dimensions of the growth and the number of pieces on the packaging. Ventilate when working with glues and keep the material out of the reach of small children.