Flowers in 4 Colors

Four flower colors in one package

Neither a meadow nor a garden ever flowers in a single color. That is exactly why this set holds four separate jars of 29.4 cm³ each, so 117.6 cm³ of loose material in all. It lets the modeler mix growth in which the colors blend into one another instead of a whole bed reading as one uniform surface.

The practical difference shows mainly on large areas. A single-color bed is read by the eye as a painted piece of plywood; four shades side by side create depth, because each of them answers the light differently.

Recommended use

Try working in layers. First sprinkle on the darkest shade as a base, then add the middle tone over two thirds of the area, and use the lightest color only in islands where the sun falls. The transition that results looks natural even under the hard light of a display case.

The set serves equally well for a flowering bush, for window boxes or for a strip of blossoming roadside along a highway. The grain holds on diluted PVA glue, and the surplus is swept off once dry and returned to the jar.

Box contents

Inside are four jars of loose material. The structure of the plants, the glue and the base are not included; the assumption is that you will build the mass of the growth to suit your own scene.

The set can be combined with ready-made grass tufts and with leaf foliage. Flower grain sprinkled over a finished tuft looks different than on a bare bush, because it hides among the blades and peeks out only here and there, exactly the way a real meadow does.

Open jars neither dry out nor cake, so the remainder will last until the next build.