Natural Modeling Vegetation.

[Guest]

Is practical to work with natural vegetation...?


NOT!!


The natural vegetation has some several limitations. So you could consider it as a “plus” or a complement, like an added aftermarket bagged or a scratch build piece over your standard commercial model.


Take as example:


Imagine you are building an arid soil base; the natural vegetation will be the perfect stuff, because she is more accorded with the real plants.


But if you are recreating a jungle....it will be impossible with our natural forest stuff....


Anyway; search, dry and manipulate your own vegetation, is more than an attractive exercise! Where you can learn many new tips and add a special view at your bases.


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[Guest]

Tools


Cutters, scissors,...


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Plastic containers.


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Blue-Tack.


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Masking tape, pipettes,...


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Gloves. (The latex ones maybe are better working with dried plants!!)


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And different glues.


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[Guest]

We have the dried herbs and all the necessary tooling.


Now is time to start with our base


This thread is talking about the vegetation, so I consider to create a little street vignette with a garden should be fun. The “Rue du Modélisme”...wrote in French. The English version is like “Modelling Street”.


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As you can see the vignette is really small, but we have the space enough. The challenge will be to create a credible scene only using natural vegetation.


These are the colours that I used to prime the base. I played with the primers to add preshading colours.


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[Guest]

On the right part I will add this nice lichen.


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On the left part I will add some nice plants, with showy flowers.


The first step is cut a small piece of plastic sheet.


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Add over the plastic piece the blue-tack.


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Carefully I stick one by one all the flowers. I use PVA (better this time), but you can use super glue as well.


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After five minutes, this is the result.


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[Robert1968]

You've hit the nail on the head with the vegetation idea and it all works even to the scale, I recently went ti a garden centre and I got some cheap lichen and some fake moss and tree clumps all for cheap ( Xmas excess stick clearance )


I will put some pics up soon ( lots of diorama stuff)


Will use this dire fur tips to weather the

[Guest]

I will use another piece of plastic to build some little plants, which will help me to full some possible holes. I added a “line” of blue-tack.


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Then some drops of PVA.


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And carefully again I stick the tiny plants...and leave them dry.


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The roots will be glued at the final stage, because I have to paint the wall yet!


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Well...this is the simple stage. On the next one, we will paint the plants, add flowers and leaves, recreate earth and paint some weathering to the base. And maybe some real moss as well (I’m still working on it )

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[Richi72]

Great how too Polux

[Richi72]

Hi Polux any updates?

[Guest]

Hi Polux any updates?

Sorry Richard! I should need the work bench be finished before....


Just hope to finish this thread soon

[Guest]

Excellent thread mate, nice one

[Guest]

Really good information and pictures, this needs to be made a sticky.

[Snowman]

Great stuff Polux!!


Keep it coming!

[spanner570]

Excellent thread, amigo. Thanks for taking the trouble to get it together.


I am always banging on about this very subject ( to the point of being boring) when I build dios. Why do folks buy expensive 'Pretend' vegetation, soil, rocks, general ground cover and yes, even scale trees, when all the real stuff you will ever need is readily available to us modellers in our own gardens?.....Just look around.


Thanks again, Polux