Scenery thought/ using scrap to enhance your models

You can also use scrap to enhance your scenery - I got this from a YouTube presentation and it works just fine.

All you need are
1. scrap cardboard boxes,
2. any kind of scrap paper - newspaper, the scrap paper that is often part of the packing material in shipping boxes, etc.
3. Elmer's Glue 
4. A cheap paint brush for applying the Elmer's Glue (you can always wash this out and re-use it for something else)
5. A straight edge
6. A good cutting knife
7. A hot glue gun
8. A can of green spray paint
9. Model ground cover

a. Take the cardboard box and cut it into strips - if you are going to make rolling hills also take the time to form the general contour of the hill
b. Take a large piece of a cardboard box and use it as the base.



c. Keep adding more contour shapes and hot glue everything together




d. Cut the scrap paper into strips
e. paint one side of the paper with Elmer's glue
f. lay the strip on top of the frame and let dry



g. spray paint everything green - let dry




h. paint on Elmer's glue in sections and sprinkle on the ground cover



...end result - instant hill which you can finish off with trees or whatever. The hill is quite strong

A final note - this hill was my first try.  As you can see it has some sharp up and down contours which are not in keeping with a rolling hill.  The good news is there are all kinds of ground cover one can apply which do an excellent job of hiding this "error".  As with anything, practice makes perfect, and the rolling hills I've made since do not have this problem.

Beautiful work, af3020.