I have read that to create a 1:35 scale wheat field you can use stuffed animal fur? Since my diorama is set in a wheat field this seems like the best idea. Does anyone have any pictures or tips on achieving a wheat field? Pictures are a thousand words to me

That's a new method for me. I guess concetually it could work. I've never seen photos of it done.
I personally would go with paint brush bristles cut to length, or a tall grass product from someone like Woodland scenic.
These guys have a wide variety of product too
MilMinWarehouse

Here's a review of Teddy Fur
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/review/4662

And here it is in use https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/168396&page=1

Bear in mind that this is a 1/48 scale vignette.

Personally I don't think it works as wheat because there are no heads(? or should it be ears?) of wheat visible and it looks more like hay or grass.

Yeah as Scott says, Woodland scenics do some long grass, and in yellow hues, probably 2" long? Just cut to scale size.
The animal fur is possibly the deer hide as used in fly fishing lures. Effective individual strands of fur. You could leave the fur strands on sections of hide for easier assembly. They would benefit from being painted to suit first. I think Hudson and Allen sell this hide, and they are pre tinted to represent specific seasonal grasses... Exy way of doing anything of size though...
Paint bristles could come into the equation...
Brad

http://www.michtoy.com/item-HAN-9935-Winter_Grass.html

:) Maybe you could add the tops to the sheafs with white glue (applied carefully so as they remain independent of each other?)

Thanks for the help!!! I will post a pic once I get things sorted out.

For a wheat field is bleached then dyed deer fur, used to be marketed by a firm called "Hudson & Allen" that sold to architechtual modelers, then thought we would be a good market. have not seen their stuff in forever.
Rick

Or go to the dollar store or the hardware store and buy a cheap floor scrub brush. They often have pale yellow brown bristles. You can remove the tufts of bristles,dip one end in glue and sprinkle on fine foam for heads and then dip the other end of the tufts in glue in order to plant them. Workable as long as your area is not too large.

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MT Hopper