Hi all.

I'm looking to make a few wildflowers to break up a diorama I'm working on. I understand a few companies make photo etch flowers, but I'd rather spend that money somewhere else.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for a source for realistic but inexpensive 1/35 flowers?

Thanks for you time.

Jeff

Hi...I'm not sure that I can help to figure out or not.
Any way I would like to share.

I live in Thailand and I use dry flowers for my dio. Here in Thailand easy to find them.

Hi Jeff. As your required about the 1/35 wildflowers products I suggest you can go and check out with this website http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fboosungtrade.com%2Fxe%2Fammorama&h=93fbb
Or you can look at some of my posted about making trees and jungle scenes here:http://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/174243&page=1
http://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/173839&page=1
http://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/174740&page=1
http://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/174316&page=1
For the other way I can send and share you some of my handmade trees and wildflowers that I had made before for my diorama scenery. Hope you enjoy making your diorama and any question about model trees or model plants please feel free to ask me or contact me at my mail [email protected]. Have a nice day Jeff. Apologize about my English text that not so good.

Hey Jeff, Check out www.busch-model.com It's a model R/R company in Germany. Any good R/R shop should have acces to them and they cost around $15.00 here in the U.S. They have available in H.O. scale flowers that are more suited for 1/35th. The list includes Dandelions, daisys, black eyed suesies and roses. I have used them all but the roses. They also have a set of ferns and mushrooms that are good scale too. The pumpkins are a bit weird, they come in 3 sizes but are too out of shape to use but the vines are useable. What I did with them was to curl the leaves and twist them 90 degrees and painted them. Then drilled a small hole and glued them in. They look like tall leafy type greens growing along my river bank. You get quit a bit od the flowers for you money and I think they are well worth it.

Wrongguy, I picked up some wild flowers from my LHS. They aren't full flowers, persay, but they do give the illusion of floral areas. I think it cost me $10 for 4 bags.

I agree with Num2010. Go to a florist and for a few bucks you can get a bundle of dried flower buds that will last a lifetime. They are usually dyed a uniform color, but Num2010 did a great job painting them. Sorry Narongkorn, I should have identified you by your real name.

The wild flowers look good when painted up but, usually they are a tad bit too big for most common flowers.Key word here being usually. I use Queen Anns lace for some of mine. Dried out and snipped apart, then clued in clumps end up looking good. The only problem is if you're looking for a spicifect type. Then you have to rely on the store bought types. For wild flowers in a field you can get away with gizmollogy, and it usually looks good, but for potting and window box's I go the other way. As dio builders we are versitile and can sometimes pull off slight of eye.