SUMMER FILIGREE BUSHES

Summer Filigree Bushes, fine bushes in summer coloring

Scenic material, not a model: finished bushes with a fine, filigree structure of branching, supplied in a summer color version. The filigree rendering is deliberate and has a practical consequence, because the thin twigs hold their shape even once set into the terrain and do not look like a glued clump of matter when seen close up. That is precisely the difference from coarse foliage scatter, which looks good in the background but gives itself away in the foreground of a scene.

Use

• Vegetation in the foreground of a diorama and on vignettes, where the structure matters.
• Overgrown corners by walls, fences, ditches and the edges of roads.
• Breaking up an open area of terrain and covering the transition to the edge of the base.
• Filling taller vegetation out with a lower layer, so that a scene does not look empty.

How to work with them

Stand the bush dry first and turn it around, because a filigree structure usually has a nicer and fuller side that is worth turning toward the viewer. Set it into the terrain rather than gluing it onto the surface, and cover the base with soil or scatter material. Summer coloring keeps a scene in one season, so tune the grass and the color of the terrain to it as well; the range also offers spring and autumn variants, so mixing seasons is an easy way to spoil a scene without meaning to. Handle them carefully, as fine branching is by its nature more fragile than coarse growth.

Who they are for

For builders of dioramas and vignettes who want quality vegetation without making it themselves, and for figure modelers, where the scene is small and every detail of the vegetation shows. They also suit a model railroad and wargaming tables, where the terrain is meant to be uniform.

For larger scenes, check the package contents on the box in advance, so that the vegetation is enough for the whole area.