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on the workbench Fields and Gardens

Time to improve terrain. Fields and gardens on an old piece of hardboard. Corrugated paper then textured and spray painted. Plants from scatter static grass on lines of PVA. Grass tuft in rows and green paint soaked sponge and pieces of clump foliage. 
Fences a mix of plant ties and bamboo skewers for the hurdles and garden thyme stripped of leaves to be the brush in the brushwood fences. 
a mixture of open field and fenced gardens 

house at the cetre of a fenced gardens and crop fileds 

Patchwork of fields - the irrigation ditch is scratch built from acrylic sheets 

Vines in a ploughed field - vines scratch built from pipe cleaners 


Patchwork of gardens the pigsty is bought from Hovels yonks ago 

Brush wood fence some scattered static grass used for young crops 

Ploughed field with orchard trees 

A series of the fields to make a patchwork close to a village

ploughed field with shredded sponge cabbages 

A mix of lants made of clump foliage, grass tufts, died shreded waching up spong and a couple of bought bean plants 

Brush fence and grass tufts as crops

a small plot with small fruit trees from model railway terrain

hurdle fences are barbeque skewers and freezer bag ties.






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