Dave's meadow

[Gern]

I had a browse through all the trees and ground cover I bought and I've selected this lot.





Some of it is a bit out of scale, but not enough to worry me. I may have to reduce/add to the amount depending on how they take up the available space. I want lots of them as I'm trying to recreate a forest - so three trees and a bush ain't gonna cut it! This is about half of what I bought.


They're only cheapo things moulded from some sort of polyethylene similar to the stuff Airfix uses for it's 1/72 figures. Means of course that the flash has to be cut away and not simply scraped and there's no suitable glue to fix them in place. I will add some PVA to the stems and just push them into the polystyrene base. With care, that should hold them well enough.


I also tried Patrick's suggestion for toning down the glossy finish and adding a little colour variation. I used some well-thinned Tamiya XF59 Desert Yellow (about 10 parts thinner to 1 part paint) and rubbed it into the fur with my fingers, making sure I rubbed in all different directions to get the paint all around the sides of the strands of fur.


It's lightened the colour just a little bit, added a bit of variation and removed the shine - perfect! Thanks Patrick!


I'll post pics later.

[Gern]

All done! Nothing complicated here so I carried on and added all the trees and shrubs.





I will be adding figures to this later, but for this GB I just need the scenery.


PS Could someone tell me how to add "Completed" to my titles, or do the mods have to do that?

[papa 695]

Very nice work Dave.

[Gern]

Thanks folks. Some B****y awful pictures though! I'll do better when I add the figures.


Anybody want to guess what I'm trying to do?

[Guest]

Glad to be of help Dave, although I use cheap craft paints, not the expensive stuff! 


It's looking very good now, perhaps a scene from LOTR?


If you want to have a 'completed', you'll have to post a new thread I think.

[Guest]

Nice work Dave!!!


Mmmm....sorry!!! I cannot discover what scene you are doing!!!!!!  


Hope isn't one of my faves movies.....if not, I will shot myself!!


PS: I tryed to change your tittle as a completed one, but I cannot do it!! Maybe an admin  

[Gern]

Glad to be of help Dave, although I use cheap craft paints, not the expensive stuff! 


It's looking very good now, perhaps a scene from LOTR?


If you want to have a 'completed', you'll have to post a new thread I think.

What an eejit!! Here's me with nearly a full 2.5 litre tin of cheap paint - which I've already used on this - and still I use the expensive stuff!


It's not LOTR but that's a good guess.

[Gern]

Hope isn't one of my faves movies.....if not, I will shot myself!!

Don't do that Polux! We'd all miss you!


Don't worry about not guessing - I've not given many clues. Maybe if you go back to some of my earlier posts ........


It might be a while before I finish. I've got 20 - 30 figures to do and so far I've only done about a quarter of them. But I've managed to use about 30 different colours so far! 

[monica]

that,s real nice Dave has death to it with the layers,and very nice tones as well,real like it well done,

[Gern]

Thanks Moni. I assume that's 'depth' not 'death'

[grumpa]

Pretty little scene Dave, though I must admit when I first saw all those bags on your sofa I though "nice little harvest" ............Jim ^_^

[Gern]

Pretty little scene Dave, though I must admit when I first saw all those bags on your sofa I though "nice little harvest" ............Jim ^_^

Now, now Jim! I have enough bad habits to pay for without adding to the list! 9_9