Cheap and easy clump foliage (Frugal Wargames Foliage)

Something must be wrong with your recipe, Mel. I've tried it several times and the smoothie always tastes just awful.

I have learned more about the things that I need to know to make fairy houses from you than from the one hundred or so tutorials that play music instead of actually tutoring. Thank you so much!

Here's a thought: make it in gray and use it for smoke. Explosions, big volcanic ash clouds, or anything else where you can get away with hard edges. Could even make it in white and use it for clouds.

Your videos make modeling accessible to people who are new to the game, thank you for sharing your expertise!

Once again you come and save me! Being poor (buying this stuff is sometimes really expensive!) and not really into war terrain (I am doing book nooks and small dioramas) your videos always helps me out. Just wanted to say a bit thank you! 💙 Cheers!

This worked amazingly well, thanks for the tutorial! Now I have clump foliage for the next 900 years of my use :D I used idye Poly mixed with cheap acrylics to get a gorgeous, vivid orange for my autumn trees.

Ok now THAT was a great tutorial, Mel! Thank you! I can say I learned so, SO much from your videos, not only the techniques but also how to deal with different materials. You are a gem in this world, mate! Cheers!

This is so great. I want to share with you my findings. I did this with a bath sponge(they cost $1.00usd per sponge). I put enough water to in to cover the sponge in the blender and blender really nicely. I let it bend for about 2-3min and then did some light chopping with my scissors. I like the bath sponge texture myself. Thanks for showing the paint and glue ratios. I think I over drenched mine in paint when I tried haha.

Great tutorial. I worked at a furniture wholesaler when I was at university. They called that rebond foam or chip foam IIRC

Just tried this with a ‘normal’ car sponge... works really well. Thank you

Thanks for sharing this. I'm at least 2 hrs away from any hobby store but bunch of Dollar Tree stores near by and a Walmart. This is genius. Plus this will save me a bunch of money. 👍👍👍 Merry Christmas sir.

The triumphant return of the "watchamacallit". It is surprisingly how technical this all is; what with the ice and everything. As with all your best tutorials it contains enough fluffs to make it look like something anyone could do. This is great stuff. "Herb grinder" :D

You said about the scouring pads which is basicly sponge. I used many old differint colored sponges, which worked great. And the more worn the sponge is, the better.

Hi Mel! Can't thank you enough for this video. I've been wanting to give this a try for a long time and I finally got my hands con a cheap second hand blender, and the first three batches came out perfect, I'm so stoked on making my own clump foliage! By the way, my blender came with a small spice blender or dry blender, so I tried to chomp the foliage further down once it had dried out and it's fenomenal! Great job mate! Thanx again!

I just wanted to say thank you for all of the great videos, especially this one. After years of wanting to get into terrain building I'm finally at a point of being able to do so. In particular to this video I've been on the hunt for a couple of years on and off finding this kind of clumped foam either second hand or from a craft store with no luck. We were doing some house cleaning and found an old pillow that had never really been used and I got very excited, ripping it open, a whole bag of pre-shredded foam! Now just to find a blender and figure out how made this pillow for future supply.

I've been debating whether or not to do a forest diorama for a while now, but between not having the time to build it and not having the spare money to buy supplies I haven't gotten around to it. Tutorials like this one will definitely help on the money front, so cheers for this one mate!

This is exactly what I was looking to do for my model railroad. You have another subscriber. Excellent video.

I remember when stuffed bears and bunnies used to have crumbed foam as filling. Used to have recycled filling back then.

Hi mate what a awesome idea I went out and bought a blender yesterday and now have my own so thanks for this video it saves paying out all the money for the stuff we can buy in the shop cheers Paul