Modelling Hedge Substructures & Foliage 

I love that no matter where I click while skipping around, the first word is "Yeah". Very funny, Good tutorial.

Mel, I love your enthusiasm & your ability to source materials from absolutely anywhere! Power to you, bro!

Such a classic guide. I Come back to this for so many different theatres.

so much detail only one channel on youtube provides deep information🥰🥰🥰 I love your work sir. I will try some of these ideas for my sto-mo animation

This video is one of the best bocage tutorials i've seen. Cheap mats, Easy to do, Looks fantastic.

To your first question, yes. Next one, yes. You can guess the rest. Brilliant video!

thank you for this. your tutorials are always so detailed and well thought out. very helpful and easy to follow for a beginner like me while also being chock full of information!

Awesome vid Mel! Really nice to see all the different types against each other. Very inspiring. Makes you realise that you could make different hedges for different environments; prim and proper wire wool for someone's garden, lichen for a farmyard hedgerow and coconut fibre for a rough forested area. Bravo sir!

your enthusiasm and just overall entertainment is great. Can happily watch these also amazing tips. Thank you.

This helped so much with building the 1,20m of hedges I need for a scenario, thanks for tutorials like these!

Excellent video, Mel... please keep up the great work

The BEST hedgerow tutorial I've watched so far!

Excellent. Loved seeing all the different materials used and their outcomes. And loved Will's snowman :)

My personal favourite was the lichen. Thanks for this, Mel; going to give these a go too.

COCONUT FIBER! prefect for dead bushes and briars! i wish i would have thought of this! Thanks Mel. Your right those looks great

I'm going to the store now and looking for sponges all different kinds. Thanks Mr. Wizard. What a tip.

Those lichen and rubberised hair ones are stunning!

Another great tutorial - a practical tutorial. Thank you. Tony

Great Job, was just looking to make some hedges. This will definitely put me in the right direction! Love the snowman nice added touch.

This is what I've been looking for. Thanks! Oh, nice snowman Will.

My favourite is the one at the back, awesome work

Again, thanks Mel! You're making a wonderful job! I've finally suceed to order lots of stuff (Javis, Woodland, etc.) but I've succeed to find Rubberised Horsehair because of you! (And you've make my day with that). You can't believe how it's hard to find THAT in France! It's a mess! Anyway, I've got my Horsehair now, and I'll be able to reproduce your incredible "bocages". Because they are really incredible and realistic. Hope to show all my work soon! So, again, thanks Mel, I'm really fan of your work and your passion!

It’s great to see that you have fun, while explaining. Keep going 👍

Helpful hint is to cut the ends of the bases at 45 degrees .So you can have pieces go together at right angle joins if you butt them and still have the Hedge line up straight if you flip around the angle the other way . You just have to modify how you add your material . I would sand the sharp corners to leave them slightly rounded .

Coconut fibre might make awesome grape vine. It amazes me there is someone in the world that does things Like I used to when I was a modeler years ago. I didn't want to spend thousands on a display. I will refer to your work often. I recently began miniature models again.

This is absolutely amazing!

Great vid Mel! You had some ideas I had never thought of!

Thank you so much! Amazing video and grate tips. The wire wool one was really useful. Sitting at home during corona virus lockdown, you dont have a lot of materials.

Hi Mel, I'm slowly going through your back-catalogue of videos and came across this one just as I am about to build my own hedges. I'm setting out to make 'indestructible' hedges which can be vacuum-cleaned and jet washed with an airbrush. I have my own method/materials for doing so, but your vulcanised horse-hair and coconut fibre have definitely peaked my interest and I'll be taking the shears to our pony's mane and tail and raiding the wife's hanging baskets very shortly. LOL Thanks for sharing your methods.

Wow…pretty cool. Thanks for this inspiration. Really great video!!!

My 2nd fav let's make ever Mel! (after sandbags) :-) Great work as ever mate, super job. Top celeb appearance from Willow & Frosty too! ;-)

And now I need to make the Horse hair hedges! They look so awesome. Well they all do. That and the coconut fibre. My favourites. Look so authentic. Would easily make great Bocage with those.

Beautiful stuff! Thanks!

Excellent tutorial buddy.

Amazing video - lots of great ideas! My friend & I are currently making a *bunch* of hedges using the rubberized horse hair & coconut fiber. Thanks for the suggestions & inspiration!

Theres a method I found which uses pipe insulation, rubbed with sandpaper and then painted in grass green. Another, from a modeller called Barry Norman, uses those green washing up pads with clump foliage stuck on. I used these for my model layout but I can say that they can be good for low cost wargaming terrain modules.

I needed this for Zombiecide. Have a thumbs up!

Brilliant content ❤

exactly what i was looking for thanks for the tips!

Recently made about 20 ft of hedges using the rubberized coconut fiber! Great stuff and I have tons left over from an A3 sheet of the stuff for shrubs and other stuff :D

Yeah you said Yeah like a Million times in this video. Plus now I want Twizzlers🥺 Thanks a lot Pal^!!^

Just recently subscribe to ya channel and can i say WOW thanks for producing such fantastic tutorials your already getting my cogs going with ideas for my layout many thanks ....had a sunday of watching a job lot of your videos keep up tje good work much luv

YEH? :D great tutorial! gonna make some normandy ish bocage scenery applying your tips!

I pledge to never wedge my hedge on a ledge. But anyway I loved the vid. I appreciate how you show a variety of methods and styles. Thanks!

That's an adorable apprentice you have there

Bellissimo! 😻👍👍👍 Mi è piaciuto tanto questo video, complimenti 🎉 Grazie mille 🙏

It's the horsehair one for me - Good stuff mate ! ✌️😁👍

That snowman looked like Olaf 😂 Very well done! Loved the video, got me brainstorming in the morn. Id like to see you try your hand at Fall/Autumn colours Or creating dead versions of foliage you've already created. Even a link to creating detailed branch and bush structures lol. Thanks Mel 😊

Excellent video as usual, so many good ideas. The coconut fibre looks like brambles (rather than bracken :-) )

+The Terrain Tutor wow very nice it looks so real.

looking good mel, good job!! the twiccors seem to suit you well 😊

Great video Mel. Probably been mentioned before but would it be better if the ends of scatter hedges, fences and wall bases were shaped to 45 degrees to form a point at each end instead of being square and then you can butt them together at different angles without the bases fouling each other. Dave

Working on a build of Cragmaw Hideout for D&D...going to steal the scouring pad idea for the trees in the area outside the cave!

Thanks for the tutorial

When using the wire wool, use the stainless steel kind to avoid it going rusty and falling to bits. A voice of experience, My wire wool trees rusted! BB

Great share mate

Amazing !!!!!!👏👏👏

You are just amazing 😎🤘

Muito bom parabéns pela explicação ,show

3:04 best part for sure

Love your videos of making trees and hedges. Can you please tell me what adhesive to use for layering static grass.

Very awesome!

WOW im impressed

I'm enjoying your tutorial it's very informative. My question is if I want to make my scatter can I color the grinded foam lighter colors such as lilac or pink?

Fantastic thanks so much. I know this vid is a while ago but I've just found your channel. Its a pleasure watching your tutorials, u make me laugh too 🤣😉 Can u also use the ol tin foil screwed up in to a hedge shape and flock that too? Cheers thanks again Kaz from Oz 😊

OOOO YAY I WANTED THIS THX MEL

Hi Mel. You could also use the synthetic Aquarium filter material.

FANTASTIC

increíble.... gracias

Very good, yeh!

Great stuff! How would recommendation making recently dead bushes with browning foliage??

Great vid. All the fine spray glues I've tried don't seem to dry properly, even when left on the radiator, so when I handle the bushes the branches just stick together and look awful. How long does the Blu tack take to dry?

My favorites are: Vulcanized - the most realistic one up close Lichen - good for untamed underbrush rather than garden hedges Unprimed coconut fiber - would have made some fantastic improvised cover for a trench scene, or dead bushes for an outback or desert scene. Just spray it with some matte clear coat instead of priming it with a color I'm not a fan of the clump foliage on solid cores. They look more like small islands covered with trees. They would be great for a micro-scale sea battle though. The fine flocking makes great trimmed hedges. It doesn't look so good on the lumpy cores.

the coconut fiber "hedge" looks like it would work great for South Africa, Somalia/Ethiopia, and the Sudan. i'm going to have to give the green foam a try as well as the scrub pad.

Hey there, do you have a video going over your sealing process with the PVA? I think I know what you're talking about but would love to see it.

Спасибо Вам. Интересно

THANK GRACIAS

10/10 would snowman again

Nice one Mel, this was very useful to me as I am looking to build a diorama and wanted to have some hedges in it. Can you please tell me where you get the Rubberised Horse Hair from? Many thanks, Joe

this tutorial is not really nice - it's simply amazing :)

Beautiful 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌹🌹🌹🌹 From India

Thanks!

MARAVILLOSO :)

Great video! One question: why do you have to seal them with watered down PVA in the end? What happens if you don't?

Great ideas! The only problem seems to be finding rubberised coconut sheets. Doing a Google search turns up loads of offers...so long as you want to buy in bulk from India. Where do you find it?

Another great vid Mel, my favourites are the horsehair and coconut pieces,awesome......oh and where can I get a pair of twizzers from :)

Hey I love your work and You are really helping me out. Just started 28mm Bolt Action since september. But I want to make stone hedges with real gravel stones picked out of the garden, what kind of glue do you recommend? I was thinking of Kit like window kit because hot glue is not strong enough.

Great Tutorial loved the Rubberised Horse hair. Couldn`t quite hear the name of the Workshop where you get it from? Something ST? Thanks in advance

Cool...

Lichen after a while gets brittle and crumbles so I keep my hedges in a airtight container and add a damp sponge a day of so before I need to use them, it revives the lichen.

1:06 that looks like what we refer to here in Florida as Deer Moss. If it is than i'm in luck, because it grows wild around here.

génial

really helpful video - thank you! BW N

I didn’t quite catch where you said you bought that rubberised coconut fibre from? 😊 some of the ones I’ve seen for sale look too coarse for my tastes and I’d like that exact one.

I’m loving this,so don’t be harsh with me but let’s make drinking game,take a shot every time he says yeah😂🤣

another awesome tutorial mate, could you possibly tell me where you get the epvc to make the bases, and how you cut it?

Looks so good. I like making models and adding foliage and grass. How would you do a dead grass field around a house or figure?

The green scouring pads I pull apart for my grass as it’s cheaper than flocking.

I'm not sure where to find vulcanized "horse hair" 'round these parts but it looks very like the high-quality re-useable furnace filters that come from hardware stores and Home Depot/Lowes, etc. I always assumed that they were extruded plastic but they very well could be vulcanized coconut fibre. The newer ones are blue-black and have to be primed. If you're lucky you may come across an older yellow-brown one that can be used as is. Great video. I especially liked Wills' snowman. Someone's inherited his dad's talent.

Excellent tutorial as always Mel. I've picked up a few ideas there. Any chance that you could look at Bocage hedges for Normandy/NWE?