This maybe a real naive question bu how are grey and yellow forming all the greens?
Paynes grey has a lot of blue in it. So mixed with yellow you get the green. So the black colors are just they Paynes grey…it’s a really easy process…
Ok that makes sense so its a dark blue grey color then?
I googled Paynes grey, makes perfect sense
I was perusing the Barnard Stockbridge at U of Idaho collection and came accross this photo of the Standard Mill Up Canyon Creek near Burke Idaho. Hows that for vertical cribbing?
Well I have gotten a little more work done. I went back and added zip texturing to the Hill. Once that was dry I added foam rocks to the hill… I forgot to take pics when I went back added the hydrocal to the foam to harden the rocks
I have been working on the hill between the trestle and the bridge.
I added some static grass and a mixture of scenic express ground covers to the parameter of the area and then a mixture of Scenic Express dead fall and Sheet Moss that I ran through a food processor.
Well I started piddling with tree placement. added the Appalachian Spruce trees that I have and then added some of the hand made trees that I have here…I aslo added color to the rock and started adding some of the small vegetation.
Da-am! That looks great. Can you come over and finish my HO module for me?
Between Vic’s detail in cramming a whole scene a tiny place and your attention to detail and overall just neat work on an indoor are really making my itch to have an indoor evermore needing to be scratched I really want to get started. There is just some much that can be done indoors.
That looks great Ty
i specially like your groundcover of the woodland.
a mighty fine layout, you are building. and soo quick…
Thanks Guys for the comments.
I wish you could see the colors in person. The camera really washes out the colors. I have a long way to go…
Thanks Again
ty
Next I have moved to the creek. I am starting by adding some rock to the creek bed. I have hot glued the foam down and will get ready to coat with the hydrocal…
Wouldn’t it be easier to just glue in real rocks?
The trees are fantastic. I will try real branches as trunks when I get around to non-deciduous trees instead of dowels, which aren’t very convincing to me, but your method is really good. (Hey, you can’t hide from us guys here on Large Scale Central, Ty: I happened to be on youtube and I saw your demonstration on furnace filter trees!)
I agree with using real rocks. Why not? The only argument I ever heard against it was that fake rocks are lighter. The best answer to that came from the fellow who shrugged his shoulders and said, “I never weighed my layout.”
Thanks guys,
Why not use real rocks…
Well I just find it easier to bend the foam to match the terrain. I can pull and tear to any shape I want and then glue it where I want. I can’t get a real rock to do that. Then I am able to get the colors of the rock to match the local area pretty easily… you would have to have a huge selection of rock to choose from to find what would work with one piece of foam…
I will use real rock when I get to the smaller ones…
Ty
Joe,
The tree I am making are really easy but time consuming. You will really like the Blue Berry Juniper.
I have a bunch more I want to make.
When you get ready I have the Juniper that I sell for $10 a pound that has very few brerries on them. If you order them from a floral supply they have the blueberries . Them and you can spend several hours pulling them off…
Ty
I was trying to figure out how to slow the curing of the hydrocal and ran across this in a unrelated forum .If you are mixing this up or any plaster mixture you can add a few drops of Lemon juice to the mixture and it will prolong the curing time. I have used this on the homemade sculptamold and on hydrocal just by itself. Just hope my wife does not miss the lemon juice…
Your layout is looking soooooo good.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
I haven’t looked at this thread in awhile…Fantastic work !