Filler I then filled in-between the models bases and the elephant  grass bundles bases with household filler and then left that  overnight to go hard, it can be tricky to work this in around all  the things you now have populating the base, but use a small  tool and put on a small amount of filler at a time. When the  filler is hard I painted the bases with Humbrol Matt 26 Khaki  paint, thinned with some white spirit. Capillary action will  take the Khaki paint up the “stems” of the elephant grass a  little way, and create some more desirable variations in colour  in the grass for free.

Groundcover Once the Khaki paint on the base was good and dry I then  covered all the exposed “ground” with Arid Static Grass flock.  I stick this on with the white PVA wood glue, painting the  whole base then applying the “grass” with a pair off tweezers,  pushing the grass well down with the closed tweezers. Once the base is covered (they will be knee deep in the stuff at this  point!) I turn it upside-down and tap it  sharply on the bottom to knock off excess grass flock that hasn’t stuck to the base, you  can be quite vigorous with the tapping, returning any loose  grass flock that comes off to the container for reuse later. Then I give the base a good blow to remove any more loose grass  flock.   Once again the grass flock is left to dry thoroughly overnight  and then I brush off any grass that has not stuck with the  Wargamer: Vehicle & Scenery brush, and the Wargamer:  Small Drybrush brush, particularly around the feet.  Almost the last step is to glue on some spot tufts, for these I  used Army Painter Jungle Tuft, which break up the uniformity  of the Arid Static Grass nicely. Glue these in place directly on  top of the grass flock with superglue, pushing down firmly on  the tuft with the tweezers. The final touch was to dry bush some green onto the groundcover, this is Army Green applied, very  lightly with a Wargamer: Small Drybrush brush.  And that’s it ready to game with or display! It may seem extreme (which it is) but you can take this sort of thing as far as you like!