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F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Old Collingwood replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I agree with Mark - really think this could leed to something. OC. -
Evening all, had another play with my dio - first thing I did was to mess up the hedge with my knife then add some dark sprinckles over it (still thinking about growing a tree out of it) next I played around with the two grass mats I have - firstly a problem neither was big enouth to fill the orchard floor and both are different textures, so I decided to do a smoother centre with rough edges (heck the farm owner probably mowed in between the trees but kept the edges rough with rocks). So that's what I'm going with - I have left the edge off till I give the other hedge some treatment. OC.
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Thinking out loud (dangerous)😄 More ideas for my hedge row, the left hand side is the Orchard that will have some rough ground (have that in a pre made scenry mat) but there will also be some trees (yep I have grown these from scratch) only joking - they are plastic scenry trees, I will probably make a gap in the hedge and place a tree there after I have beaten up the hedge a bit and added some more sprinckles. "Ideas ideas" my brain keeps popping up with these ideas. OC.
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Sorry to hear you have been rough with the (thing) all the best plenty of vits is the key. OC.
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Thinking ahead after studying some hedge making video's - I think mine looks to flat and neat and with the sprinkles just sitting on top - its looks like a hedge that's just been trimmed with loose cutting on top, I will have a go with my knife at separating the top making it less (tidy) Also I think the sides need more Green - it was difficult to do the side so what I will do is to lift the whole base and support underneath so I can sprinkle some more Green on the sides, but may still airbrush some brown (lightly) towards the bottom to pick out the hedge branches. Good fun all this is - you can kind of be as creative as you want. OC.
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I will be doing some more work on the hedges tomorrow - I will roughen then up a bit more - as they would have had some serious abuse from the different soldiers trampling over them, as the 2nd KGL where firstly stationed between the hedge rows and retreated back into the farm - both directions over the hedges - followed by the French. OC.
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Evening all, right hedge making experiment on going - it comes in a roll out like wire wool mixture roughly cut into a box shape, first I had to straighten it out and pull out a few dips, then I layed a layer of PVA down and pushed the hedge pices's down onto it, then (in the bag comes green leaf fillings and some woody soil, the idea is that I use a PVA type spray and all over the hedge then sprinkle between finger tips first the soil then followed up with the leaf sprinkles. First I had to loosen up the leaf sprinkles as they had stuck together - I used a bowl. Looking at my pics - I will probably spray a bit of Brown on the side of the hedges. Its a messy job and my first attempt at it - don't think it went too bad. OC.
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