How to use Leaf Cutters for your bases

This basing episode will show how adding a few cut leaves to your bases can have a dramatic effect! The Green Stuff World Leaf Cutters are amazing, and they create so many fun options! I am using Luke's APS and Woodland Scenics flock to finish these off.
A link to the Green Stuff World Leaf Cutters:
www.greenstuff...
And Luke's APS:
www.geekgaming...
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[@thoughtfulwatcher]

Wow, this is great. I bought some leaf litter years ago from a company that went out of business. Now I don't have to worry about it ever again.

[@jameswappel7119]

These things are amazing, and I keep finding new ways to use them!

[@shotou]

Dude, these are brilliant, and of course those High Elf Knights look gorgeous.

[@MacGyver_-ml2qm]

Awesome video Jim. Need to get some of the MiG glue. Thanks for everything you are doing for the hobby.

[@jameswappel7119]

thanks so much! It has been really incredible to experiment with the TMM oils, and so much more to come!! :-)

[@jameswappel7119]

Thanks for the kind words! There are so many fun new things to discover and learn! I keep learning something new every day I pick up that brush :-)

[@greenstuffworld]

Great job!!!Thanks !!

[@jameswappel7119]

Thanks so much for making the best basing products out there! They make life much easier!

[@warbanda]

Love bright colors of your works. nice video👍

[@jameswappel7119]

Thanks so much! I had a lot of fun painting these on stream!!

[@RichardReads]

You must be living in my brain - I was just thinking the other day "I wonder if James has a video on how to use these" since mine finally came through the lost shipping zone of customs.

[@jameswappel7119]

We share the brain!! These things have been soooooo handy!! :-)

[@LifeguardLeroy]

I really should get some of these in future, thanks for the video!

[@jameswappel7119]

Cheers! I just wish that I had these 20 years ago!!!

[@vitaliisharapov3305]

Nice!

[@jameswappel7119]

Thanks!

[@SvenEnterlein]

I love these punchers! I use coffee filters stained with different inks. The leaves look pretty convincing. I also don't care if I "overlap" the punched holes because it doesn't waste as much material and many leaves in nature are broken anyway :) Will check out the oil TMM videos; I have a number of pigments waiting to become paints. Hopefully they'll dry quicker than the fluor pigments (unlikely, but hey, I can hope!)

[@jameswappel7119]

Thanks!! I have noticed that the metal mixes tend to dry sooner, since they don't separate as easily as the Fluoros...

[@SvenEnterlein]

@@jameswappel7119 That sounds promising! Is there any way that (fluor) oil paints won't dry?

[@jameswappel7119]

The flouo paints always dried in the end after a few days

[@azrazel916]

Great video. Alwayz cool to see you in my notifications.

[@jameswappel7119]

I appreciate that!

[@Fortunes.Fool.]

Wait this is a thing? How did I not realize this? I used train scale foliage flock on my Night Gobbos years ago and this would’ve looked way better!

[@jameswappel7119]

I have been using these for years, and really love them!!

[@LifeguardLeroy]

I might have too use paper, as most of the tree we got here in Australia are eucalyptus trees. Their leaves literally sweat acid, so might degrade the paints and glues over time as they decay.

[@jameswappel7119]

Wow! Are there any smaller bushes? Sometimes the smaller leaves like those can be easier to flatten, and easier to fit in the leaf cutter

[@LifeguardLeroy]

@@jameswappel7119 yeah but, not sure but as alot of a plants seem too be as deadly as the animals I would have research a bit.

[@jameswappel7119]

Hehe, that sounds quite hazardous!!

[@Wijkert]

Hi James, I am wandering how different Luke APS fast drying glue is different from regular PVA.

[@jameswappel7119]

It is very different, as it retains adherence even when thinned to an extreme level. It is much more "sticky" in general

[@riccardonovello]

What do you usually use as a palette for the oil paints?

[@jameswappel7119]

It is a piece of parchment paper glued to cardboard with a glue stick, so that it can be removed once I'm finished.

[@althepal4413]

if you dont seal the leaves completely, will they not rot over time as they are organic?

[@jameswappel7119]

The leaves are fine, as they are not being exposed to moisture, etc. Also, the glue acts as a bit of s sealer as well

[@freedom2663]

How do you "press?" Do you just flatten them manually?

[@jameswappel7119]

I put them in a thick heavy book. That makes them very flat!

[@Lumpsack]

Green Stuff World's CS may suck but they do make decent leaf cutters

[@tando6266]

2nd to like yay! heres one for the algorithm gods!

[@jameswappel7119]

Many thanks!!!