Autumn Foliage Brown

HEKI foliage flakes, autumn brown, 200 ml

Loose foliage flakes from the German maker HEKI in a package of two hundred milliliters, colored brown. Brown is the color of late autumn, when leaf has already lost its pigment and only dry leaves remain on a tree, and at the same time it is the most used shade for forest floor. On a diorama it works quietly and will stand large areas as well without a scene going flat into one color.

Use

• the crowns of oaks and beeches in late autumn
• forest floor and a layer of leaves between trunks
• dry bushes, dead wood and the edges of paths
• subduing an autumn scene that is too varied

How to work with the foliage

Apply flocking or thinned white glue to the tree armature and scatter the flakes from above over a dish placed underneath. For forest floor work in two steps: first a fine base, then coarser leaves in irregular islands, so that the area does not look like a carpet. Anyone who wants a forest floor still more convincing adds a few twigs of natural material among the leaves and darkens the places by the trunks with pigments.

Who the material is for

For builders of forest dioramas and layouts and for modelers who need to subdue a scene that is too green or too varied. It will also serve well with winter scenes, where the dark layer of last year's leaves is meant to show under snow, and with scenes from the end of the war, where the landscape is not meant to come across as fresh. This is a loose material, so do not inhale it and keep it out of reach of children. The maker marks its landscaping goods as not suitable for children under fifteen years of age.