How do you buy scenic materials ?

How do you buy scenic materials?

  • Bags

    Votes: 20 51.3%
  • Shakers

    Votes: 15 38.5%
  • Gather your own

    Votes: 15 38.5%
  • Other

    Votes: 5 12.8%

  • Total voters
    39
  • Poll closed .

fifer

Active Member
Do most of us buy bags or shakers or collect our own materials for ground covers and such?

Mike
 

bigsteel

Call me Mr.Tinkertrain
i voted for the last 3,i dont necessarily use small enough amounts to justify buying the baggies they have.and alot of my ground cover is ground up leaves preserved in glycerin.--josh
 

Relic

Member
I almost said gather but that would only be half right,I do gather,but I grind and puree too.
In the four{or so}years I've been doing this I have bought NO scenic materials
.I blend/paint my own ground foam and my trees are all plant based,because {a}the nearest hobby shop is a four hour ret,trip{b}I'm on a very limited budget.
I keep pluggin' away,'cause I love it
 
well i buy it in the shakers to start with then when i get the next run of it i get it in the bad and put it in the shaker. shakers keep it from falling over and getting all over the place. Unless you forget to close the top. LOL
 

myltlpny

Member
It rather depends on what I'm doing. For ground cover I use shakers, with some of the coarser foam (bagged) applied by hand. For trees, I'll use the plastic armatures with clump foam from bags.
 

MasonJar

It's not rocket surgery
I did not vote because I use all
In this poll it is possible to vote for more than one option...

I voted for "bagged" and "roll your own" ;) :D. I use the 500g (1 lb) peanut butter jars for storing and dispensing. I have a few spare lids that have been drilled with appropriate sized holes that I swap in or out as needed.

Andrew
 

Nomad

Active Member
If you shop at costco, look at the seasonings ( pepper, taco seasoning, and some others ) come in the same shaker bottle that ws uses.

Loren
 

stripes

Member
I am a scrounger! Anything I can get my hands on gets modified for the layout! My wife thought I was crazy when she came home and I was baking old coffee grinds in the oven! :genius2:
 

Relic

Member
Stripes, eggszactly!,my nephew,who is just getting started said just the other day that he looks at everything differently now,as in "what can this be"
 

MadHatter

Charging at full tilt.
Yip, one of my old customer's sons actually used to like buying from our "scrap bin". He always would buy a bundle of the oddest things, he's father would always ask what he planned on doing with it and he would reply that he didn't know yet but he knew that they needed it.

Sorry for sad ending but his father died from a heart attack two weeks back, really feel for them (two sons, 14 and 10, and his wife)
 
Top