Hi everyone,
Just thought I would share with you a product I discovered today at the Queensland scale model expo - grass mats from a company called Polak. I am sure that some of you have seen these already. These are hand made, come in a huge range of different grass types (I was blown away by how many different mats there were), include little details like rocks, flowers, and look great. The come in small flexible mats which are cut-able. They also sell ranges of scale trees, bushes, grass tufts (yes, tufts), long reed grasses, rocks, you name it. Here's one I picked up - this sheet is a 250mm x 200mm.
Close up:
And with a 1:48 model:
The one I bought is a little "longer" in terms of the grass strands (looks like long grass in 1:48) but they come in many different heights.
For those in Australia, I found them at:
http://www.modellers-warehouse.com.au/Home%20pages/Rebuilt%20home%20pages%20v4x/They are not super-cheap, but for the effort, time and cost to do this yourself, $20 isn't so bad
Anyways, just thought I would share.
BC