H is for Hugh's Handy Helpful Home Hobby Hints

I think I started this particular trope ages ago and it might have run to a 'part one' post, so this is probably only the second of Hugh's Handy Helpful Home Hobby Hints on Small Scale World!

You can go to a decent model shop (if you still have one near you) or you can go to a modelling supplies website and buy a pack of veneer sheets for whatever it costs, probably not a lot, but something, use them to create some scenic masterpiece and spend ages staining, dry-brushing and weathering it, or . . .

. . . you can check a wood-pile for old, weathered, de-laminated plywood sheeting, which can make excellent clap-board buildings, feather-edges fence-panels, split-rail fencing or various defence-works, or indeed anything wooden you may need in a diorama or as part of war-games scenery - mine workings, packing cases etc.

And (if it's not too rotted) it can be cut with scissors as well as a craft-knife, although the older stuff can be a bit crumbly! Non-crumbly stuff can be washed to get the worst of the lichen or algae off and once patted-dry can be re-flattened/straightened in a flower-press.

And it makes excellent fire-lighting material!