How I make jute string bushes

Now I can not claim to have come up with this idea, I grabbed it from this video here by Great Chesterford Junction Model Railway. so thank you Gormo, you inspired me!

This page shows the process I use to make 4mm scale bushes. These simple bushes can really help hedges come into their own.

Materials

I use the following materials:

• Jute string

• Hot glue

• Brown aerosol paint

• [Optional] 2mm brown static grass

• Finely sieved sawdust pigmented the colour of the bushes leaves

Process

• Hold a bundle of string or rope and cut a short length, keeping hold of the bundle.

• Onto some plastic or the glossy side of a cereal packet, place a blob of hot glue and thrust the cut end into it until the glue hardens

• Repeat until you have enough bushes

• Trim the bushes to the desired shape

• Spray the bushes with brown paint (aerosol or from airbrush)

• Leave to dry

• Add optional static grass for fine twigs

• Using PVA glue diluted very heavily with water and a dash of detergent, drip small drips onto the poly fibre and the just string bushes. You may need a squirt or IPA to break the water tension.

• Sprinkle the finely sieved leaves on to the glue droplets

• Fix with cheap hairspray (not forgetting to mask other areas)

• Sprinkle more finely sieved leaves on to the glue droplets

• Fix again with cheap hairspray (not forgetting to mask other areas)