I have often used various dried herbs to depict leaves and vegetation in small-scale dioramas, but have found that certain ones fade over time. Has anyone found a particular type that retains its colour (a shade of green ideally)?

i use parsley, basil etc to do the same but then paint them (airbrushing) with the rest of the base rather than leave them au natural

Scenic express, or Aber , even Eduard PE sheets.

Or Nature, preserved by whatever they suggest to preserve what you have.


Cheers

Jeff

Anyway you should paint all the plants with acrylics...For preserving small natural plants you can use 50% mix water-glicerine (put the plants inside for some hours, take them out and paint them with acrylics paints - I use Vallejo). Other plants can put inside a notebook for drying (like people use to do with flowers), and after some days you can give them some form (be carefull because they use to be very fragile) and paint them.



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I’ve been experimenting with real leaves ..and glycerin.. seems to work ok leaves have remained soft and flexible and remains with the colour

If I'm not mistaken, AK has a product for that, however, if you search on Google you will find many home recipes, at different speeds a all plants exposed to light lose their color when the chlorophyll deteriorates

This was great information! What I would like to have is a tutorial on how to make camo netting. German WW2 if possible. I would like to make my own and have seen data on using gauze, thinned glue and water based paints applied. Is that just the best way?

I'm doing the leaves & glycerin method. There are a set of punches that make small leaves of various trees. A bit of work for not a whole lot but it looks really cool, and I have a lot of free leaves this time of year.