Very clever, thanks

Very Clever method.  Seems to work great!

Thanks for the time you put into coming up with this.

Amazing

Great article.  Have long been trying to figure out how to do this (for 10-ish $).   Like most modelers, I have slews of plastic food type containers and tubs.   Modeling western scenes, grass tufts or sage bushes are most of the scenery together with real colored rocks and dirt.   Rocks and dirt collected on car trips in the west make wonderful, inexpensive scenery together with the same Arlene's Tacky Glue.   Trips to southern CO, northern NM, AZ and Utah provide a color variety of reds, yellows, blacks, browns, grays and everything else for small rocks and dirt. 

The missing scenery component that I can afford! 

Just Have Too Try That

Looks like fun and it would be so easy to try on the cheap.

Strange that I'm about to try scenery now...

A+ for this one.

Thanks guys!

Glad I could share my technique! 
It really is nice being able to mix your own and match a prototype vs. selecting what the commercial companies have available. I look forward to seeing what you all come up with! 

Great new tip to save money

Being that I need more than a few thousand tuffs this is going to save me a lot of money,

Great tip and photo show.