54mm Waterloo Cornfield Base-A Blast From The Past

[Andy Belsey]

Excellent!!
Andy

[Guest]

That's turned out rather well Neil. Very convincing indeed.

[Neil Merryweather]

Send me some more close up photos and I will count the stalks for you. Do you want the amount of Rye seeds counted as well?? LOL

Looking forward to seeing your crop circles. Terrific work

Crop circles- now there's an idea! :tears-of-joy:
Thanks for the offer of the count but I don't really want to know,now- I'm moving on. I had to get this finished before anything else as the bench was disgusting. I've just purged it and will get back to the rifleman asap.

[Neil Merryweather]

Well now, what splendid scale horticultural skills you have. That looks great.

Thanks Colin, unfortunately not translatable to real life gardening. I've got more hedge to trim this weekend, not looking forward to it:anguished:

[Neil Merryweather]

Excellent!!
Andy

Thanks Andy, that's praise indeed from the Capability Brown of the 54mm world!

[Neil Merryweather]

That's turned out rather well Neil. Very convincing indeed.

Thank you Peter, it's better than I was expecting, completely new territory for me.

[Steve Jones]

Looking at it now I wish I had been a bit more careful to get the ears more uniform,as it looks more like a hedgerow than a cornfield,but hell it's done now.
I quite fancy adding a flower or two- poppy, cornflower- any ideas, anyone?

Here are some photos of the battlefield that might give you some inspiration for vegetation

[scottie3158]

Neil,
That is a very nice result your patience really paid off.

[Neil Merryweather]

Here are some photos of the battlefield that might give you some inspiration for vegetation

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Here are some photos of the battlefield that might give you some inspiration for vegetation

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Thanks for these, Steve, I'll have to wait until I can look at them on the pc :thumb2:

[Neil Merryweather]

Neil,
That is a very nice result your patience really paid off.

Very kind, Scottie, thanks

[Neil Merryweather]

All done!
I'm not unhappy, except with the painting of his left eye, which is only slightly better than before I 'improved'it, but I don't dare have another go.
I think it's a lovely sculpt, full of character, and I'm very glad he's finally finished after so many years!





The burning question is- will I use this for my Scots Greys vignette?
I'll have to see how I feel at the time, but I probably will.

Thanks for following and for the encouragement
cheers
Neil

[rtfoe]

Hi Neil, for a moment I was looking for the corn field...so it's rye. Bloody good. The raffia has given me a good idea to simulate saw grass which is a pest here. Looks nice on hill slopes but murder to walk through. I'll have to look for the organic natural raffia as raffia is sold here as plastic raffia.

Your vignette really looks good.

Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

Neil,
That's a cracking result.

[wotan]

great job Neil. a very impressive little vignette.

John

[Guest]

Excellent Neil. It's turned out a beauty.