My first diorama. to go with my first model

[monica]

I also agree with Steve, no 2 trees are ever the same, and you have nailed this one

great job,

[Guest]

The tree looks great Steve, I hope I can build one that looks as good as yours.

[Guest]

i think the clump foliage looks out of scale. maybe i should investigate other things. anyone know of anything. heard of seafoam.. sounds interesting..

[monica]

I forget who said this ,and it works very well, just use a wash-up kitchen sponge, that cheap ones that have 3 or 4

in a pack, and use a blender, with a bit of water in it, brake up the sponge into bits say about an 1ch , then hit the

button, if it dose not get pulled down and chopped just add,alittle more water, untill you see it getting chopped,

once its been chopped to how you like, take it out and mix some cheap dark,/med green ,as a watery mix, and

soak the sponge in it and and let dry,

so not really fine, but kind of clumpy, to your liking

hope this is of some help

but i realy think that tree is great,maybe if your so so about it just trim it,

have a look at some bonsai,s

[Guest]

I think the tree looks great mate.

[Guest]

grey and brownish grey was on wood. and tree stuck down. tried to make muddyish tracks.. sort of

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[monica]

looking good to me very well done so far,

and the tree in the corner looks great

if i may say some think ,just run some wheel tracks in the same color up onto the wood,

so you can see how its been pushed back onto the base area,

[Guest]

yeah will do deciding what angle to place the plane no. looks better i think half on and half off! should have made the boarding bigger. maybe lots of dirty tyre tracks to show it being moved around.. bought some medical gauze to use as camo.. found this pics for inspiration..

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[Richi72]

Nice work so far

cant wait to see how this will turn out.

Cheers Richi

[Guest]

ok i've given up on the landscaping and it will have to do. looks simple in books but nothing wanted to stick. then everything fell out. the grass stuff is bloody annoying. I cant seem to paint the rocks to look like rocks. I haven't a clue what I am doing!!

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[Richi72]

Don't give up mate,

It looks good from the pics. As for stones paint them gray and then you paint them with a black wash and after they are dry a little drybrusching with white.

Cheers Richi

[Guest]

As Richi says don`t give up, it`s looking good, looking forward to seeing more

Tom

[monica]

looks very good to me and as both Richi ,Tommy say as well,

dont give in ,its your 1st dio, and is looking great, and looking

forward to seeing more,

[flyjoe180]

Looks good to me. Once you work out the wash on the rocks and get things to stick properly this is going to look great.,

[eddiesolo]

Don't hard on yourself, it looks pretty good to me. To trees, paintbrush bristles for reeds etc always drill a small hole and fasten in that way, makes it alot easier.

Si