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Newbie to scenery - painted foam/plaster - how to grass?
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<p>Hello All, first time poster, thanks for all the great advice. I built the scenery (foam risers, etc.), then painted with earth laytex, but let the paint dry. </p><p>To move to the next step, I then sprayed scenic glue and sprinkled on some blended grass. So far so good, I like the results. The directions said to spray some more on to fix the grass...well, I got polka-dotted grass, everywhere. Not necessarily a bad look, just not one I was going for! After more blended grass, I gave up on trying to spray on the glue and used a contact lens bottle (got that tip from a Kalmbach book - thanks!) to hold the grass down and things worked better, but not great, the drops still at times pulled the grass off.</p><p>Where have I gone wrong? Since this is my first "real" layout since my childhood, I'm learning all over, sorry for the very basic question. I did manage to fight through it, put on some additional heavy grasses, bushes and it looks now very good to me, although probably a 1 on the scale of 10 for most of you. Thanks in advance for the help, you've already helped a ton! </p>
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