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Yeah, we've already had snow up here too. Jamie, if you're looking for constructive critisism, I can give you some friendly advice on your scenery. First, it looks very good for a beginning attempt at scenery. My first scenery looked much worse - in part because of the bright red bushes the reason for which I've forgotten. - Second, I'd break up the monotony of the plain grass with bushes. Other than parks, very few areas in the world are like that. You can add a sea of static grass / long weeds, totally scrap the bushes and add some small hills (just small enough to see), or add some more stuff there like railroad junk along the ROW.I used to use bushes a lot, but I've discovered that as my technique evolved, I never use bushes like that (I do use weedy bushes and stuff - not ground foam but lichen in the wold) anywhere except for in town scenes where such bushes would be planted and trimmed - they don't exist much in the wild. - Third, I've become very fond of my leaves. I ground up leaves in an old blender (DON'T use your mother's one for this!) and now use them as my base. Even in big grass lawns, there are leaves underneath. If the grass moves a bit during the gluing process (it always does) then you don't see the pink foam - you see leaves. Also, they are used as the main part of the forest floor. I add some brown-ish weeds, forest clutter (leaves that were ground rather than blended, then had the big pieces sorted out), and other stuff to the forest floor, but the leaves look perfect for fall.-----------------I'll post some photos of newly-sceniced West Canaan, NH, this weekend to show you some of what I mean.
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