American ground cover flock for basing ACW / AWI

Above is my old flock with various leaf scatter added for a bit of extra colour and pop to the base.

 Lately I have been making some tweaks to my American ground cover. Those of you have seen my basing ACW post will remember to save time I just flock my bases with various colours to save time with basing. The Blended Turf colour of 'earth blend' was my first layer as this was a nice dry looking base colour to build up from for the American continent.

 However, while making Birch and Aspen trees for my ACW collection I realized that I had buckets of tiny tree 'sponge' left over in piles around the table. These autumn colours said 'American woodland' to me, so I scrapped them up and added them to my earth coloured flock. The tiny oranges and yellows really give a sense of fallen leaves. I'm really looking forward to using this new base blend on my AWI project where stalking through Autumnal woods is all part of the atmosphere and look of the war.

 So far the early tests on my rail fences seem to be good. This tree scatter foam stuff is very satisfying to work with and I found myself sprinkling it all over the tree bases to act as leaf fall. Also rather than just use one colour on the actually trees, I found the best results were to mix the different colours to produce trees that were just beginning to turn.

 Aspens are very yellow in colour and say American woods more than anything else.

 large boulders offer a little more protect against musket balls... Also my old trick of using mixed herbs from the Supermarket as bracken and dry leaves also comes into it's own on these tree bases. Cheap and very effective...tasty too.

 It's worth saying that once done I give the whole base and tree a good covering in watered down wood glue from a spray bottle just to set everything and make it gaming proof.

 Here are the bare trees before they get any flock, quickly sprayed with various spray paints to produce a basic Birch colour. To this I will add tiny black brush strokes to create the Birch bark look.

This idea of basing tiny trees on tiny scatter bases is new to me but one that should work well. I bought these birches from eBay for a very good price. They should work well scattered in amongst fences and around building to break up the terrain..