Well, as master himself said: "No mistakes, only happy little accidents."

When he completed the first foliage bush, I was like I wish I could make something like that. Then he said : "looks horrendous"🤯😂

Crafsman straight havin' a heart attack watchin' him paint inside while using fine particulated matters and no dust mask

Geezer here... Hey the foam may not have looked like flowers... But that piece brings to mind... Bog, swamp, "underdark" terrain.. Like funky fungus stuff for fantasy setting. Good vid.. Thanks

Haha, I was 8 min into this video before I figured out he was saying Gorse and not gauze.

One fairly useful definition of "expert" is "one who has made every possible mistake in their field".

That tree is dope AF. Thank you for always sharing with us what you learn, and don't learn..... it means the world to small crafters out here watching your vids!

Just need a mo' to wax poetic here. I'm not new to mini scenes but I'm new to terrain (my start was a decade ago in fairy gardens). But just found KZfaq Terrainers 18 mos ago and have just been soaking up all the new techniques. (Been doing D&D & Warhammer terrain lately.) I love all the talent I've found online and I seriously look forward to every new vid. But I gotta say, yours are one of my faves. I like your approach, I'm entertained and inspired, your techniques speak to my style and I just wanted to say thanks for takin' the time to put out videos. Life is a roller coaster ride so truly, sincerely, bottom-of-my-heart..,. Thanks!

Always good to see the ones that don't work as intended, we learn a lot from trial & error.

Hi Luke. Thanks so much for sharing this. Seeing your process is great. Everthought about doing experiments that can be reversed? An example would be to take seafoam and try different lengths of static grass on it, without painting/varnishing first. That way once you turn off the current, the static grass just falls off, and you can use it for something else. Absolutely I've had projects go wrong, only to have them turn out great, but in a different way. One example: I was sticking down some flock for a base, thought I'd scooped up my bottle of PVA glue, but instead had grabbed an old bottle of thick white paint. I ended up with some amazing looking tundra terrain! I just sprinkled a little snow flock over it afterwards, and it looks great. Inspired a whole pile of alpine/tundra terrain builds.

Verry good! The most fun in this Hobby is to experiment. I do the Same in my small workshop. Molding, Flocking, Painting, Sculpting. Every Experiment bring you ab it more forward in every part of a category.

Great video, man. Loved it. I once made a startling terrain making discovery entirely by accident through trial & error whilst trying to make something else & failing too. More specifically I was mixing a bunch of various materials together using tried & tested comprehensive techniques that conjured such a brilliant awe inspiring piece that I was blown away, haha. Well I wouldn't say blown away yet i just did. I should really clarify that I wasn't literally blown away but rather that I may have been using metaphorical language to convey that I was suprised, but alas..I digress. So yeah, I was busy setting up my usual tools, paints & various other bits & bobs..but I should really not say 'bits & bobs' as it's not really descriptive as to effectively portray the process by which I made my discovery...darn it. Damn, I keep digressing whilst trying to tell a simple story, almost as if I'm intentionally padding-out what I'm writing here to take up time instead of getting to the damn point. Annoying isn't it? Well I suppose that if you're still reading this then I have to congratulate you on your patience. Well, I don't have to congratulate you but I will anyway because I almost feel bad for wasting your time reading this diatribe of nonsense. Thank you for your time & I hope that this inspires you to craft truely amazingly unique pieces using my unique methodology. You can have this idea for free as it honestly didn't cost me a single dime & I hope it helps

That was a very thick bush. Loved the looks you were giving it. That tree is beautiful.

Like your honest and dispassionate reviews of your own work. Shows why you are so good.

Love your videos, gave me the confidence to just say "F it!" and get stuck into the hobby. I'll definitely try this too.

The moment you got the static grass on the seafoam I was like, "Aha! Perfect pine tree!!" Sure enough.

A random thing I stumbled across was that the stem/stalks that grapes come on make great small trees and bushes. I just happened to be eating some grapes while trying to think what I had around the house that I could use for a small tree, then I realised that the grape stalk would be a good fit size wise and it already looked tree like.

Fun video to watch I had to look up gauze bush to see what it was. Gorse and Gauze both showed up on the search :) It looks amazing for pine needles for sure.

Yeah I have had a similar situation. Trying to make hedges with static grass.well it turns out that noch leaves can be applied like static grass put the leaves on your flock box spray your tree with your preferred method of glue connect your tree to the clip run it over just like static grass tuff's and the noch leaves jump up and stick like static grass...way better than sprinkling them on try it you might like it.

Here’s a thought, What about taking your grass bundles you made and scrunch down the outer blades of grass outwards, maybe that’ll give the randomness your looking for. Is there a way to turn down the current when you charge your potential bush so it doesn’t give you an exploded green cat look? Or here’s another thought, What about ground dried parsley flakes for more substantial leaf effects? I have moss growing my yard, look like tiny ferns up close which are great on mini bases. I think moss could be a winner for you too. Well that’s my two cents worth. Anyways, enjoyed the vid.

A happy accidental discovery that I made was that the upside-down bases of certain weedy shrubs make excellent tree/bush armatures. Senna pendula (winter cassia) grows as a weed in my area. When uprooted and inverted the root structure of this plant has a really cool complexity that looks very naturalistic, and is dense enough to take clump foliage without the need to fill out the branch structure with rubberised public hair.

Mate that tree looks spot on. Awesome video

By doing these experiments and posting, you again, have taught us so much! Learned tons! Thanks Luke!

Love your down to earth approach Luke !

Experimenting like this is crucial! This is literally the ONLY way new techniques are born!

That tree is awesome looking.

Nice stuff. Thanks Luke

Luke, I had a similar issue with making hedges and bocage, I went with coconut fibre sprinkled with a blend of 4mm static grass. Let me know how I can send you a pic and I’ll show you how they turned out 👍

Awesome video and beautiful pine tree. The summer (bright green) grass bush reminded me of a Creeping Juniper plant, especially where you could see the branches towards the edges. The fluffier parts with the random spikey bits/branch, reminded me of the Juniper bushes my Grandparents had. I always thought they looked odd but neat, especially when they developed the berries. Anyways, thanks for sharing your find. It'll come in use for both pines and junipers. : D

I must say, your acting skills are top-notch.

Thanks for posting this video. It really helps to see your discovery process.

Really cool to see the whole process! It would be awesome if you make more like these.

Great video the title of the video can apply to many things in the hobby and life

Failure is the best teacher. ;)

Glad you did this for me lol I don't feel like using up that much stuff on fails. Some of these do look pretty good though. Also, rockin that Ragnar look? It works

Never a failure if you learn from it.

Truly awesome work and it's great to see your experiments resulting in something you were truly happy with, even if it wasn't what you intended! ~ Wolfbrother Methos

I have them all the time m8 a call them Archimedes eureka moments! great vid cheers paul

We were talking about you in the Model Railroading community, so I had to come subscribe.

Loved this video!

Hi, I'm new to all,this model making, just wanted to say how much i love your videos, and how helpful they are, i doubt i will ever make anything to your standard but the tutorials you do allow me to make things I am am at least happy with, keep up the fantastic work.

Loving trees atm

I’m with you...I fucking hate making bushes.

Great vid Luke. Not onto terrain yet but when l am l will use your materials.

There is never a failure in Art, because you can always just set it on fire and call it Post-Apocalyptic. O.o

Always good to see that things often don't go right first few tries. I'm trying to work out how to use that rubberised hair too 🤣

I agree we are always learning, like I had no idea what that flock box was until I saw your earlier videos. I've seen people doing great things with frozen and ground up crayons in the model railway world for flowers, maybe that could be your gorse solution? Alex

Many of my failed 3D prints are repurposed to terrain parts. Same with items I've lasercut that don't turn out.

I would love the pine tree and after the first 10min I was thinking I could try this for a pine tree. The static made the static grass look like needles. I want to try this now!

You have viking hair and beard, good looks!

Try putting the foam flowers on before the grass but after the glue.

What is poobic hair?

Perhaps using a painting brush and speckling on the yellow paint? 🤔

I love the look of the bright green bush/tree. I've got to make a static applicator tho! What kind of power source do you use? Small battery enough?

TBH large scale train folk been doing this for years. What's a gauze bush though 😂

Your work is incredible but that really doesn't look like a pine tree.

This is the first time I've ever seen that box tool, what is it even normally used for?

Mistakes are just steps toward success

Fucking love it... gorgeous brother... love this type of video, I like watching the process

Love your channel! Here's a trick I learned during my cable splicing career with the phone company. Our cables were usually wrapped into 25pair groups. If you hold a group in your hand and then wrap it around your finger and cut it off even, when you let go and straighten them out, all the ends will be of a different length. Check it out. Hopes this helps :)

I was just trying static grass to make pine trees this past week. I would get some that looked really good, but 80% would look like trash because I would just get too much static grass sticking on, and in too many directions. It seems like that static charged tray is the way to go since I was using a handheld applicator.

nice job

I will keep following even though it did not work :-D

Am I the only person who saw the static grass as being blue the whole video?

Rubberised arse-hair... love that accent 😂

Well Luke we all have to try things out before making recommendations to others, so test away, after all what you may dislike others maybe satisfied with. Cheers Mate.

That static grass applicator tho, please share with us! I have a tiny one get shocked every f@king! time XD

Looking at the gorse near me the yellow flowers didn't look all that far off to me they tend to clump in patches near the top of plant perhaps dipping might somehow work?

Interesting grass 'applicator?'. Would You elaborate on it?

When you said pubic hair, I almost sprayed the keyboard with tea.

So, idk about anyone else, but the horse hair looks almost exactly like brambles... thin, wirery tangled mess.

Is the tree from the video end is not based on Luke Towan pine tree build?

Why's the grass blue?

Why to put that mush grass?

The first gorse bush wasn't THAT bad.

Wow, can someone point me to a link where I can get that blue-green flock?

Hey man! Do you have an Instagram?

You only fail when you don't learn anything from you mistakes

The second colour static grass you used is more like gorse bush colour, the first colour did not look right at all.

"tought" lol

Winning isn’t winning

Some days I feel pubic hair would be easier to use.

for all of you out there, PLEASE WEAR A MASK

Acting!