Malayan Emergency 1/35 scale.

[JR]

Funny how I find fire and water in modelling interesting :smiling3:
You don't disappoint Richard, the last photos. Show real movement.
The idea of using the packaging for the water poring over the rocks

Is perfect .That for me along with the vegetation in the water detailing the movement is perfection. Well done.

[rtfoe]

Your clever water fall idea has worked well.
Jim

Thanks Jim, I'm glad too that it worked being a first experiment.

That's coming on very nicely indeed.

Very well done.

Andrew

Thanks Andrew, hope the rest goes nicely as well.

Funny how I find fire and water in modelling interesting :smiling3:
You don't disappoint Richard, the last photos. Show real movement.
The idea of using the packaging for the water poring over the rocks[ATTACH]433136[/ATTACH]

Is perfect .That for me along with the vegetation in the water detailing the movement is perfection. Well done.

Thanks John, the dry bed was a bit of a worry at the beginning. Even planning can get a bit shaky as assumptions can always backfire.

Thanks for commenting guys. At the mo repairing the bridge as a cats foot just plowed through the planks.

Cheers,
Richard

[Mini Me]

Very interesting so far Richard. Looking forward to the next bit of progress. Rick H. :thumb2:

[GerryW]

Some great effects there, and the ideas behind them, certainly makes good reading!

[rtfoe]

Very interesting so far Richard. Looking forward to the next bit of progress. Rick H. :thumb2:

Thanks Rick, in a bit you'll see a bit. :smiling2:

Some great effects there, and the ideas behind them, certainly makes good reading!

Thanks Gerry, glad you had a good read.

Little progress but quite a lot for me as I had to go boldly where I've not been before and that is painting the whitecaps...literally trying to make it look natural. Anyway it still needs staining around the falls and gloss varnish to soften the effects...



The effects of the gesso and white acrylic paints were stippled in... now there is movement.



If I had known it was this see through I would have added fish.



Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi, it's been a while since I touched on this dio. Nothing has changed except for repairing the bridge and searching for my stash of dried plants. I swore I had a 2'x2'x1' carton box that I lumped everything in.

Found it and what a treasure trove. Didn't realise I had accumulated so much of it including some plastic plants from a flower accessory shop. The last time I opened this box was for my R&R dio. I picked out some relevant pieces here...



...and will spray them with an undercoat of black. Tropical lighting is very harsh and contrasting so any areas under the shade will look black. The plastic plants are ideal for undergrowth and tall grasses.
Crafting the jungle will take a while...just like resin pouring. :smiling2:

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Having done the water and more detailing to be added later, I have cling wrapped it to work on the jungle. Funny thing is whenever I think of the word jungle CCR's Run Through The Jungle keeps playing in my head.

The cover was necessary because I will be using a lot of can spraying which covers a lot of ground, then I detail with the airbrush and finally hand paint the highlights.



Okay the next few pictures will look pretty odd but it's the start of the main tree trunk that overhangs the stream. Now it's looking like a hang man's tree but there's lots more to add on with more vines, moss, branches, leaves, parasitic plants and roots.



This is just one vine. There will be plenty more...



The roots are being attached...the ends will be covered later.



This part of the process always looks like a mess and heading nowhere but the picture will soon form. I hate this part of the process where I always have to think ahead and paint a picture in my mind and everything is new and experimented like that added branch below. The trunk is not stuck on yet to be removed for detailing.



Already placing a sponge moss on the slope looks promising but no pics of it yet. If it gets boring, come back a few pages later to see if I got it right.

Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

Richard,
Your eye for detail and your skill in turning it into reality is superb.

[rtfoe]

Richard,
Your eye for detail and your skill in turning it into reality is superb.

Thanks Paul, keeping my fingers crossed as anything might happen or go wrong when experimenting.

Cheers,
Richard

[Graeme C.]

Interesting to see how you're doing the jungle Richard, keep up the good work.

[BigGreg]

Wow the river and the jungle work looks superb

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
Very good and so interesting to follow your progress. Glad you found your box :hugging-face:
Jim

[Tim Marlow]

Fantastic waterworks there Richard. I can see the tree working really well as well….

[rtfoe]

Interesting to see how you're doing the jungle Richard, keep up the good work.

Glad if it's interesting to you Graeme. Lots of old school technic will be poured into process that you may be familiar.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Wow the river and the jungle work looks superb

Thanks Greg, I won't be following your leaf by leaf method or I'll go crazy. :tears-of-joy: I'm going to cheat a little here and there but will still do singular leaf attachments to creepers and vines.

Cheers,
Richard