I take thick, longish seafoam branches and spray the branch dark brown. Then drybrush in Buff and add brown washes to give the effect of thicker wood.
Next I paint the outer branches in unthinned greens of various colours and let them dry, and then dip very lightly the tips in white glue and sprinkle with a mix of railway modeling green flocks of various different greens and browns and yellows. Tap off and seal (very gently) with hairspray.
It is a quite effective method for reproducing the sort of branches the tank crews would have ripped down from the trees to tie onto their vehicles. Seafoam on its own I think lacks the colour and thickness to look truly realistic unless you are going for the very small branches.
Seafoam is an excellent bit of kit. I got an A4 size box of it , god must be over 10 years ago, and I still have half a box left. Highly recommended for dios to anyone who has never used it before.
I just ordered one today, too. Along with the new Tamiya Jagdpanzer IV 70A and the Takom Pz IIIN with shurzen. Then I ordered the new Morris Bofors truck. I was a bad boy.
LOL! That’s a very sweet haul Matt. Look forward to hearing your impressions of the Tamiya 70A and Takom Pz III N. Cool beans!
Oh if we have full disclosure, I was terrible today. There’s also Dragon’s Wittman’s Last Tiger 1, Late Model 007 , Otto Carius 's Mid Model Tiger 1, a 251/23 paper panzer plus an MG42 team along on the slow boat to get the free shipping .
@Johnnych01@SSGToms
Well despite me saying earlier that I would wait for it to arrive here in Blighty because of the shipping costs I have gone and ordered it from Aliexpress.
Along with R-Model tracks and a stencil for the turret number.
Seems a reasonable price and I have paid the VAT at source.
If I read the UK Gov website correctly I will not have to pay any import duty, we shall see.
Edit it is on Moxingfans now:
@Catsrcool Welcome to the “Gotta have it” club. It’s a sweet addiction that only stings a little.
The bright side is you were wise enough to get everything all in one place. That shows a unique clarity in online armor model shopping.
If i can see correctly, this is an older kit (i have it in my stash, excellent for me!), with added hull, turret and bits with zimmerit as produced for their early G kit with zimmerit?