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Topiary hedges

by Robert Calfee
I did up some quick and easy topiary animals. I was doing a creepy Mordheim garden (still don't have enough hedges to make a good maze...) and I knew it needed those nifty bushes trimmed into the shapes of beasts.

The creation is simplicity itself; I bought a handful of the small plastic animals you find at all inexpensive toy stores and using a brush applied white glue. Then I flocked the animals, I could have used sand instead of flock. I coated the animals twice over, and then sealed them off with a last coat of thinned glue.

The animals were then glued to sections of cut-up sponge (but I'm not thrilled with all of my results, next time I'll use something else).

My base coat was dark green and then I dry-brushed medium green and then light green. Use the same colours on the animal and the bush/stand.