Re: Foam soil

Robert Heller wrote: 

Yes.  I do this, particularly where the grass is going to be 'thin'
(eg dirt roads, paths, deep forest, etc.) or where I want more
'texture' under the grass (or bushes, etc.).  I 'paint' the surface
with a base earth color and then sprinkle on the earth colored foam
while the paint is still wet.  Sometimes I toss on fine ballast or
talus for added texture. Later I follow up with more brown or start
with green foams (depending on what the scene needs), which I then
soak with 50-50 white glue/water.


WARNING! I also did the bit of sprinkling earth colored foam over wet earth colored paint. Later I went back and added some more foam where needed using matte medium & water. Guess what? Two different colors. Seems the first batch soaked up some of the paint color which lightened it.
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