Neat to see it coming together Richard, thanks for explaining :thumb2:
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Hey Fernando, no probs, glad you're with us.
I trimmed the longer grasses unevenly for a natural look also stabbed at it to avoid buches of even growth. Highlighted the sphagnum moss with some yellows mixed with light green.
You thought I was going to leave the tyre tracks in polyfilla white did you?...red brown was painted over it showing the contrast of disturbed fresh earth with dried sun baked surface earth.
Attention was given the the culvert and monsoon drain cover using Nato black, Olive Drab and Rust over White.
The drainage pipe was treated with rust stains using red brown and finishing with Leather. The pool of water is basically dark green and varnish.
Cheers,
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Wow Richard, capturing the "feel" of the landscape brings a whole new and more natural element into the process........well done. :thumb2: Rick H.Comment
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Well it's a challenge just to get the grass right...imagine if I had a Douglas Fir plonked right next to the banana tree. :tears-of-joy:
Okay, that's where I have decided to plonk the banana tree and it's just too green and plain with its original trunk so I spruced it up a little.
This is after I worked on the trunk and re-painted the leaves of the banana tree. Also I have found a placed for the telephone pole.
That basically the groundwork done waiting for the rest of the stuff to fit in.
Hope you enjoyed it so far...next will be the SBS of the banana tree then perhaps some on the telephone pole. I'd like to show how the fruit was done especially the famous durian.
Cheers,
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Very nice Richard. Rick H.Comment
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Thanks Rick. I hope it replicates the terrain in my country.
The house reference by the way is from a picture I took of a delapitated house in the middle of an up coming development soon to be pulled down.
Cheers,
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I hope so too.......you have to "live" with it, after all.
Rick H.
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Dug up the picture of that house...
It was still in business when I took the photo...that sign saying"Lori Sewa" meaning Lorry for Hire. It's now gone and in its place is a hi-rise condominium. It sat along the Old Klang Road just a few hundred yards away to the T-junction to Jalan Templer...the first main road for the satelite town of Petaling Jaya named after Sir Gerald Templer the British High Commissioner who took over from Sir Henry Gurney after his assassination in the ambush at Frasers Hill. Sir Gerald Templers campaign of resettling villages closer to the city was instrumental in curbing the Communist threat. These little settlements grew into the satellite towns like Petaling Jaya.
Cheers,
RichardComment
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Marvellous work Richard. You are a master at all forms of modelling.
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Very nice indeed. Well done.
AndrewComment
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It's a good thing you captured it on film (film?...does anybody use it anymore?) when you did.......and the flavor of its existence lives on in you diorama. :thumb2: Rick H.Comment
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Thanks for the kind comments John, Andrew, Gerry and Rick...
With film and history together we get to see a glimpse of the past. That house must have stood since pre war days. If you look closely you'll see it's being propped up on the sides by timber. In front is a modern version of the Honda Cub C90. If the shop owner owned the piece of land, he'd be a millionaire now.
Cheers,
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