here's a nice way to make fern type plants.

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**Lucas Radford**

I'm making a lot of forest bases so I need a lot of variety in plant life. Here's how I make ferns for undergrowth. It's a little bit fiddly but gives good results!

**WonderD0g**

Looks really good, and effective. Nice one!

**precinctomega**

Ah-hah! Nice find. I'd put in that, for extra detail, you can also run a blunt blade or pencil down the centre of each frond and out to the tip of each leaf to give a more natural texture.

R.

**Lucas Radford**

That's a good idea!

**Buttery Commissar**

A nice way indeed! I'll have to keep an eye out for one of these. I like brass-etched scenery, but it's not very forgiving in the clumsy-oaf dept.

**Lucas Radford**

I thought of using brass etch but the amount I need would be expensive, so just thought I'd explore making my own first and happy with how they turn out

**toasteroven**

Nice and simple. I've even got some of those paper punches lying around. No fern ones, but I might be able to fill my battlefields with butterflies now.

**Artiviks**

This is simple and fantastic, definitely going to try this out.

**Rippy**

Such a simple and great idea haha great work.

**Lucas Radford**

Aaw thanks guys

here's a finished one

**Fennius**

You could probably dip the paper pieces in some watery green paint if you wanted to get rid of the white edges, but from the pictures I'm not sure its necessary

**leopard**

Very nice effect, and so simple, will keep an eye out for a cutter like that.

Could work nicely with green paper, avoids the painting, and in a couple of shades. Doing jungle bases for my nids, may borrow this to see about a few live plants to go with the jungle floor scatter (very cheap dried mixed herbs, soaked on the base in pva then painted).

**godardc**

Ah ah thanks !

**maceria**

Fantastic!

**UselesswizarD**

Fantastic use of the punch! I'll keep an eye out for one of these at my local Micheal's Crafts.

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Fantastic use of the punch! I'll keep an eye out for one of these at my local Micheal's Crafts.

**BipolarPug**

Wow very nice!

**notprop**

Very creative, who even knew these devices existed?

Well done sir!

**Kahnawake**

Great idea, I guess painting those would make them look even better!

Kahnawake

**porkuslime**

great idea... (wife is a scrapbooker, maybe she has some punches)..

BUT.. why not just use green paper? easy enough to find, and in scrapbooking areas should be easy enough to find mottled green sheets..

Or a local copy shop might have a few green pages you can use.. or the hardware store might be a great place to source green paper samples..