Learning about static grass - Part 2

Last year I finally got around to seriously working with static grass and documented what I had learned so far in THIS POST.

Since then I have done a few projects and have gotten better results with each attempt.  On this layout I have been using various shades of brown and dark green Buffalo Grass products from Scenic Express to represent the many scrub bushes seen in desert areas.  While I like the results it can get rather expensive to cover a large area.  That's why my deserts have been somewhat sparsely populated with these.

At a convention a few years ago, I attended a clinic where the method of how to make similar types of scenery with static grass was demonstrated.  So, I gave that a try using some 4mm straw colored static grass from Woodland Scenics purchased at my local hobby shop. This was actually lighter than I wanted but the selection of colors in the Woodland Scenics line of static grass is somewhat limited.  I put dots of Woodland Scenics static tac out on a piece of wax paper then applied the static grass.

After vacuuming up the excess I had this batch of bushes. They seemed good but again a little lighter in color than what I wanted.

After installing a few of these straw-colored static grass bushes on this layout, they seemed to be almost invisible against the base scenery.  So before removing the rest of them from the wax paper I gave them a light spray of Vallejo burnt umber.

After planting a few of these on the layout I was happy with the results.  Shown here is one of my home-made ones next to one of the Buffalo grass products that was purchased.  Scenic Express has a greater variety of static grass colors than does Woodland Scenics so at my next opportunity I will pick up some of their static grass in some darker brown shades.