Malayan Emergency 1/35 scale.

[rtfoe]

Made some little progress today as it was SWMBO's birthday today I made sure I spent as little time on the bench and helped around in the house. :smiling5:Made Lemon Sole dinner. The butter, lemon, thyme and parsley sauce was a hit with the fish.

Anyway here's the little that I did...
Cut out a new batch of the previous leaves and burnished them so they don't look flat.



Then cut out some ferns where I'll be attaching wire stems that will help shape the curve of the fern.



Also cut these out waiting for stems...



Made some of these with masking tape and wire.



Twisted out some large yam leaf plants from an old batch of plants where the brand escapes me. The banana plant also is from that same brand. I'll be knocking out two of those...one large one shown below which will get the dried bark effects later.



Starting to organise the plants and deciding where they will be placed.

Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

Richard,
Please pass on my birthday wishes to your better half. The fish sounded delicious. The vegetation is coming on nicely.

[Tim Marlow]

Nice gardening Richard. Plants look excellent.

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
Indeed the plants do look good. Happy birthday to your good lady.
Jim

[Guest]

Richard you've always been a dab hand with making plants and these are coming on well.
Yes Birthday Greeting to the managerment .

[rtfoe]

Paul, Tim, Jim and John,appretiate the kind comments and wishes.

Today the lotus bloom is the biggest I've seen to date...



Cheers,
Richard

[GerryW]

Just had a massive catch up here.
Loving how the pour came out - wasn't brave enough to try that option on my first one.
Fantastic work (as always) - the picture of the passion flower reminded me of a garden that I maintained (sadly the lady passed away just before the pandemic) even had a couple of fruit on the plant!

[rtfoe]

Just had a massive catch up here.
Loving how the pour came out - wasn't brave enough to try that option on my first one.
Fantastic work (as always) - the picture of the passion flower reminded me of a garden that I maintained (sadly the lady passed away just before the pandemic) even had a couple of fruit on the plant!

Thanks Gerry, it's easy once you've plugged any possibilities of a spill or seepage the resin will do the rest. Just wait for the bubbles to rise to the surface and you burst them with a lighter or incense stick.
Can't tell who passed away, the plant or the good wife, either way I'm sorry to hear about it. :disappointed:
How is your son getting on and are you ready for the next dio build?

Cheers,
Richard

[GerryW]

Thanks Gerry, it's easy once you've plugged any possibilities of a spill or seepage the resin will do the rest. Just wait for the bubbles to rise to the surface and you burst them with a lighter or incense stick.
Can't tell who passed away, the plant or the good wife, either way I'm sorry to hear about it. :disappointed:
How is your son getting on and are you ready for the next dio build?

Cheers,
Richard

It was the wife's niece, (who was confined to a wheelchair whose garden it was, I just kept it from being a jungle), the passion flower vine was on a South facing fence.
Son is nearly back to normal, but the stitches let him know when he's done too much!
Still plucking up the courage to start the 'factual' dio, but garden and work are having to take precedence at the moment.

[rtfoe]

It was the wife's niece, (who was confined to a wheelchair whose garden it was, I just kept it from being a jungle), the passion flower vine was on a South facing fence.
Son is nearly back to normal, but the stitches let him know when he's done too much!
Still plucking up the courage to start the 'factual' dio, but garden and work are having to take precedence at the moment.

I see, Gerry, do what's needed first then when you're ready with free time then the hobby kicks in.

I had a bit of trouble with the water effects, the mixture of white glue and Making Waves didn't turn out as planned so I removed it. Lucky I hadn't varnished it so it was easy to lift and tear off. Only injury I had was a blister on my index finger from rubbing the layer off the resin.
I left the Making Waves effects on as that looked okay and will use that to sculpt the rest of the ripples with it. Should have taken a pic of the bad effects.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi,
I have just applied the Making Waves acrylic paste with an artist spatula which I just realised I had one and that made it more easier. This is working better as the areas that are starting to cure is really clear and there is not much distortion of the stream contents.

I've got some images while the paste is curing so there still white patches still in the process of curing.



There is a difference between the right and left bottom of the stream. The one on the right was the previous sculpt over white glue and is slightly cloudy.



I built up more water turbulence around the waterfall bottoms and will paint in the white caps and also add white gesso to the falls.



I think it's coming along better this time. Lots of patient sculpting as the paste was too thick for blowing, besides that effect would work for smaller scaled ripples.



Will take more shots when cured fully. Also the base of the waterfalls still needs more build up.

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Coming on a treat Richard. Shame you had problems earlier. Once cured and clear I'm sure the white will really finish it off. It already looks very good.
Jim

[rtfoe]

Coming on a treat Richard. Shame you had problems earlier. Once cured and clear I'm sure the white will really finish it off. It already looks very good.
Jim

Thanks Jim, the fix was easier than I thought. Looks like I will be making more water scenes after this.

Here are shots taken shortly after the first showing the paste clearing even more...



Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Your clever water fall idea has worked well.
Jim

[adt70hk]

That's coming on very nicely indeed.

Very well done.

Andrew