Malayan Emergency 1/35 scale.

[Mini Me]

Looks real Richard......it doesn't get any better than that! :thumb2:

[rtfoe]

Looks real Richard......it doesn't get any better than that! :thumb2:

Thanks Rick, it's still an experiment and a first time for me so at the end I hope the leaves don't fail me.

Cheers,
Richard aka Wabble

[Jim R]

Very realistic looking bamboo.

[rtfoe]

Very realistic looking bamboo.

Thank you Jim, it's still experimental so I'm hoping it turns out right. I have a mission to get vegetation to look right and in scale.

Cheers,
Richard aka Wabble

[Graeme C.]

The bamboo looks very convincing Richard, the vegetation is coming along nicely.

[minitnkr]

Excellent gardening. Had a batch of bamboo much like it in California.

[rtfoe]

Excellent gardening. Had a batch of bamboo much like it in California.

The bamboo looks very convincing Richard, the vegetation is coming along nicely.

Thanks Graeme and Paul, I guess bamboo can grow anywhere just like grass.

Cheers,
Richard aka Wabble

[scottie3158]

Heh wabble,

That is some great gardening mate.

[rtfoe]

Thanks Scottie, the artificial kind I guess. I suck at the real green stuff and leave that to SWMBO.

Cheers,
Richard aka Wabble

[rtfoe]

Hi guys, I was watching an old war movie Operation Bikini and realised why many jungle dioramas look like they do. These guys have been following what they see on TV which are Hollywood sets with all kinds of tropical fauna available from the trailer rentals and plonked within the camera lens frame. Therefore you will see large leaves of the rubber plant cultivated for indoor mixed with palm and bamboo also miniaturised for indoor amongst the vegetation. Lots of loose sphagnum moss is strewn on the ground and to cover the pots I guess...some are already half dead. And of course you hear the Kookaburra in the background. Seriously if they want to copy jungle just watch The Pacific or The Thin Red Line.
First of all some of the plants mentioned don't grow together in the same place. You will have more creepers, vines and kunai grass on hilly slopes. Palms near rivers and banana trees in open ground. Tall canopy is usually quite bare in between the ground and leaves but will be festooned with parasite plants like staghorn and birds nest ferns, creepers, jungle money plants and hanging vines.
I was at Daiso(Japanese pound store) and found this to add the the scene...

It will be recolored to fit in. I'm also making more bamboo trunks for fallen pieces across the stream.

Cheers,
Wabble

[rtfoe]

Hi guys, monkey heads have now been paired with their respective bodies so there should be some progress coming up later...


I've adjusted some of the armatures, shorten body lengths for some then its adding bulk to arms and legs.
Watch out for this space...

Cheers,
Wabble

[Jim R]

Interesting thoughts on jungle foliage. No doubt your model will be more accurate than the Hollywood version.
Monkeys are great. Another first for you. I've never see a whole troop of monkeys sculpted

[rtfoe]

Interesting thoughts on jungle foliage. No doubt your model will be more accurate than the Hollywood version.
Monkeys are great. Another first for you. I've never see a whole troop of monkeys sculpted

Thanks Jim, I hope so. On monkeys...this is the time I wish I could draw and 3D print them. Very time consuming and daunting at every step to get the anatomy right.

Cheers,
Wabble

[scottie3158]

Richard,
I have no doubt that you are up to the task.

[Mini Me]

What Scottie said is true, but in the end it will be quite evident that you weren't just "monkeying" around! :tongue-out3: .......just getting my coat......