How To Make Vines Out Of Rope Hi this is the last in my series of foliage making for a while at least until I start making the farms and park. Today I am sharing how I made my vines. These vines are made exactly the way I made my flowers made with string, only difference is that these vines are made with rope and are obviously so much larger. I needed them large to fore fill the look I was after. So you will need to look through my blog and find the one that is called “How to make flowers with string and flocking”, it was written on January 15 th 2021. The only differences to making these vines is that you will use rope instead of string and when you have finished untwisting the rope to within in 2cm from the bottom you will not be spraying your rope with green paint but with burnt umber paint, (A very dark brown). Also for different effects you may want to ...

        Natural Resources I Have Used For The Train Layout To make the rock walls and pillars to hang the gates on I have used these stones.   I have collected bark, different coloured soils, twigs, and gum leaves. I have sieved the dirt to get all the little tiny stones out and to not have anything in the soil that doesn't look like soil.  Here I have ground down the green gum leaves. I also ground down the red ones separate and also made a mixture of green, red, and dried brown gum leaves, which I have used the most.   I found some banksias in a car park in Geelong thanks to some corellas that had a good feed on them and then dropped them on the ground. I thought they would be very useful for the train layout and they have been. I have used them as weeds, and will also make some agapanthus plants out of them and I will also use them scattered through the wheat field. When you pull the banksias apart there are 2 parts that I have found us...

                 Making Your Own Ground Cover Foliage Above is a photo showing one of the types of ground covers that I have made slightly hanging of the cliff edge as well as ground cover. Spray this one brown and didn’t place any flocking on this one until I glued it down, then I sprayed some hair spray on to it and then sprinkle some ground up leaves on top of it and then re sprayed it again with the hair spray. When I come to sealing all my work I will seal this as well.   Below is a photo of what this foliage looks like after you have made it. Then when you want to place this foliage in your train layout or war diorama or even in your dolls house garden you simply pull it apart and glue it down using your Sticky PVA Glue. To make your own ground cover foliage you will need the following Items:  String or Rope -         Cheap hair spray (You will be using as glue) Baking paper -       ...

                 How To Make These Long Stem Flowers This is some photos of how I used my long stemmed flowers. Sometimes I glued them in the exact size that I made them to be, but a lot of time I cut them up to give me smaller stems and varying sizes, for larger parts of them plants in the middle and back, leading down to smaller parts of the plant at the front. As you can see the varying sizes really help to give you the true effect of the plants and a really good 3D effect.  The things you are going to need to make your own long stem flowers are as follows:   -Bristles from a light scrubbing brush. (This is pictured in the above photo and I found mine in Daiso a Japanese shop in the laundry isle. I found this one to be not to think and the bristles all differ in size and they are a natural product, and what’s even better is that they only cost $2:80 and you get 2 in a packet. You will need to pull them all apart and put th...

                                          How To Make These Flowers The items you will need are: -String -Flocking (I have demonstrated how to make this in my blog called ‘making the foliage for the train layout’) -Liquid hair spray glue (which I demonstrated how to make in last week’s blog called ‘making hair spray liquid glue) -Green paint (or a can of dark green paint) -Spray gun -Scissors -Glad bake String Liquid Hair Spray Glue For the foliage you might first like to mix up some mixtures of coloured flocking. Some of the variations I have mixed up for our flowers are: Purple and mauve with some light olive green flocking. Dark pink, medium pink, pale pink and white flocking. Dark pink, medium pink, pale pink, white, and light olive green flocking. Deep red, medium red, and dark green flocking. Dark yellow, medium yellow and pale yellow...

                               Making Hair Spray Liquid glue To make your hair spray liquid glue you will need the following items: -Some very cheap hair spray with the strongest rating of hold and make sure it doesn’t have any softener in it. (Here in Australia when I first got some cheap hair spray I managed to get it cheaper from the reject shop but they haven’t had any since the Covid isolation. I have picked up my cans of hair spray from the supermarkets when they come up on sale). -A can of WD-40 spray. You will need the small plastic straw that comes with the spray can. You will not be using the WD-40 at all, only the straw. -A can of compressed air. You will need the nozzle of the top of this can. You will not be using the can of compressed air spray at all only the nozzle. -A disposable plastic contain. -Glad Wrap. First you will to take the nozzle of your ca...