Hello everyone,

It's Andy, again.

Today I want to show you a simple, easy and quick way to produce your own hanging plants (aerial roots, lichen, etc.) for caves and dungeons and similar base concepts.

Things you need

A ball of wool (or bits of it), scissors, tweezers, superglue and - optional - a hobby knife and/or toothpicks

The process

The process is pretty much forward – take a short piece of wool, place it on the desk and split the single strands piece by piece to the size that fits the scale of your model. The toothpick is a handy tool here but not mandatory. For more realism produce strands of different thickness.

As soon as you have produced enough pieces, prepare some superglue on sticky tape (or some such) and grab your tweezers. Take the wool pieces with the tweezers, dip the end, that will be attached to the base, in the superglue and place it on the base. For me, it was a bit tricky at the beginning but with some practice, it’s easy.

Optional step: With an additional step of varnish (even before priming), the single strings of the wool stick together and produce a moister overall appearance.

I place my strands at the basing stage of the project as one of the last steps due to the fragility and prime it afterwards, but it should also be possible to produce some strands off the base, prime and paint them separately.

Thanks for reading and see you soon,

Andy