"it looks more like the added scenery I saw in my youth. Outside of bars. " If you would post something you did, I could see where you are coming from.
It looks okay to me, especially in the last photo with the IC bulkhead flat. Distance, illumination and view angle change a lot of perceptions.
"it looks more like the added scenery I saw in my youth. Outside of bars." Not sure what you are talking about. Can you post something you did to show me what you mean. I might also add,I am not through with the scenery
One of the decorative idas I got by seeing some one point toothpicks, these hace a rounded "handle" that looks like the support of railings here in italy. You can see the raw toothpicks here, and some already in position on the small ramp of stairs in front the of house ...the finished house (itself scrath built) in place, the rolling blinds are made of paper with a picture of the real ones printed on, the strret sign and house numers are also printed on paper
In the past, I used a piece of roofing as a coal load for this small hopper. That didn’t have any depth to it so today, I glued small black granules to that piece of roofing and this is what I came up with. Your thoughts? Pictures are on the new diorama I made. Am I through with the diorama? Not yet.
That load looks very good. Your diorama, under natural light outside, is just right. I see there have been a few refinements made, like added vegetation, that really integrate your rock faces nicely. Keep it up!
I am going to try something today. Hope it works out. I cut an end branch off a Crape Myrtle tree and cut off the buds that made the flowers. I sprayed a coat of adhesive on it to keep the delicate branches from breaking off. I colored some very coarse saw shavings and will glue that to the branches to hopefully make a decent looking tree. Here are a couple of picture of the start of this project.
Interesting idea. I may try to duplicate your efforts after the hurricane passes. May be a few days before I have time with cleanup and waiting to dry out. I'll be watching your progress. Don
Sorry you guys are going through that Carolina Northern. Here in Louisiana, we have been lucky so far this year.
Here is what I have so far. I am using clump foliage. The sawdust would be too thin a coating. I will sprinkle the green sawdust on when I feel I have enough foliage and maybe a little of the yellow tinted sawdust for flowers. Some glue is showing but I took the pictures right after I glued the foliage on. Will let all that dry and add some more.
Great results. The interesting thing about your trees is that "every-which-way" branch orientation that one can't really achieve with the standard plastic tree kits. One can twist them up to a point, and they tend to try to return to their original shapes. I like the scraggly look your trees have.
Thanks Mike, I added more foliage to the tree and also sprinkled my green tinted sawdust. I will be posting that shortly. While I was in the mood for tree making, I also did a woodland tree. I will show that also.
I am pretty much finished with the tree. I hot glued the rest of the foliage on. I than sprayed it with hair spray and sprinkled green tinted sawdust on it than sprayed it again with hair spray.
I'm an N Scaler, so a bit off topic here, but I'm using scraps of foam to shape embankments. Shaping larger pieces of foam yields volumes of this stuff and when held with glue, it's great for shaping odd areas. Once I apply a base coat of paint to all of the foam and add some ground cover, the irregular, rough surface should be minimized. We'll see.
The woodland scenic tree I worked on. After gluing the foliage, I sprayed with hair spray and sprinkled green tinted sawdust, sprayed again then sprinkled yellow tinted sawdust and sprayed again. This is the result.