Add Variety to your Scale Model Leaves
Adding a variety of textures to a layout can really boost the sense of reality. Changing up your leaves and using scale leaves on your foreground trees can really help achieve this. This is a quick tour of some of the leaves I have at home. Some I have used a lot, some not so much. I used rubberised horsehair for the bushes and seamoss or forest in a box for the trees with craft mount glue. I sprayed the trees with a brown first.
The Leaves
Leaf Suppliers
- Noch – come in 4 main colours, my favourite on the middle green. https://www.noch.com/en/product-categories/trees-bushes/leaves.html
- Little Leaf Company – natural product from birch trees – comes in natural or coloured. http://www.green-scenes.co.uk/store?productlist-sort=created-desc&productlist-categories=little-leaf-company&productlist-itemcount=20&productlist-search=
- Little Leaf Company – other leaves – called fine scatter. https://www.dccsupplies.com/cat-608/little-leaf-company.htm
- Super Leaf from Scenic Express. http://www.sceneryexpress.com/SuperLeaf/products/1289/
- Treemendus – the fine scatter give lovely small leaves, great for N-scale as well as HO. http://www.treemendus-scenics.co.uk/scatters-etc/
- Selkirk – papery fine leaves like the Little Leaf Company. The standard size is better for O-scale but the fine is great for HO. http://www.selkirkleaf.com
- Mini-Natur – foliage nets – great for ivy but I struggle to use them for trees. https://www.mininatur.de/en/Silhouette-Scale-H0–N–Z/Silhouette-Foliage/
- Heki – very long thin shape but easy to use. (The website’s german but you can use Google Translate to read) https://katalog.heki-kittler.de/epages/Heise.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Heki/Categories/Begruenung/Mikroflor
- Model Scene realistic leaves – beautiful laser cut leaves – pricy but worth it for a few fallen leaves on a large scale diorama. http://www.realityinscale.com/ModelScene-Scener/Laser-cut-paper-Leaves-Plants
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