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GRASS VARIATIONS

Leave fresh ground soil for just a week or two in the growing season, and seedlings will appear. Almost certainly, grass will be among them. Since Britain is such a wet place, with a temperate climate, grass grows well and is mostly responsible for this being known as a ‘green and pleasant land’. If you model a British scene, you can’t avoid modelling grass.

Grass is affected by far more than the season, although this is a major factor. The weather, locality and cultivation level also have an effect, as does traffic or grazing.

Using a single pack of static grass on a large area of your baseboard isn’t necessarily going to represent the real world, even if it doesn’t look particularly unrealistic to the casual, uninformed observer. The secret to achieving a realistic result is to

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