hi i just finished my first little test senery and just want to know what everybody thinks and give me tips on how to make it better
What do I think? I think you are off to a really great start! For a first effort it's not bad, not bad at all. My suggestion is to keep trying, keep building. Try a variety of textures, some verticle grasses would be an easy start by using some frayed string pushed down into the scenery base. Keep it simple, less is more. It's easy to add, but hard to take away.
Once again, not too shabby! Thanks for sharing.
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Ace, maybe it my computer but it sure shows a lot of yellow on this end. More grass would help depending on the look you are looking for. Carving of the foam looks good!
Cuda Ken
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That is really good, the best you have done, but not the best you will ever do. Suggestions:
1. Color the rock faces different than the ground. I would add a black wash for shadow, then some darker color on the rock, then some white dry brush for sunlight.
2. Deer will want some denser forest. The trees are very evenly separated. I would make one corner very dense suggesting the beginning of forest.
3. I would put one tall pine tree on the top, but that is just my prefernce for an eye catching element on a diorama.
4. Cudaken's suggestion of more tall grass and more bushes is a good suggestion.
That is a great scene. I look forward to seeing the next installment.
For a first try, this is vey good ! I see that ARTHILL has made a Reply. Be sure to look at his albums of photos, by clicking on the hyperlink at the bottom of his Reply He has many, many fine photos of scenery ideas, that you can benefit from. As you will see from my AVATAR, I have made Fall foliage, deciduous trees, as well as Summer green foliage. The photo is one of a dozen "woodland areas", that will become part of our local "Historical Railroad Museum HO model railroad". I use pieces of stained wooden skewers,that have been sharpened on both ends, before pushing on small circles of green colored furnace filters. I then spray on spray adhesive (or cheap hair spray), and drizzle on Woodland Scenic Static Grass Flock, or colored ground foam. Some modelers use spray painted cotton balls, but I prefer furnace filters and foam foliage. At present , I am making about 300 trees,( so commercial trees are too expensive)! For foreground trees, I would suggest using "sedum or pepperwart" for the finely branched trunk. For background trees, the skewer trees become smaller and more and more blueish with forced perspective. Punch holes where you desire to "group "sets of trees, and then spray on stain or paint, of medium to darkish brown. Lichens make good dead branches. Finally, push your sharpened tree trunks into the staiined holes. My wooded area trees for the Railroad Museum, are interchangeable for Summer. Fall, and Winter foliage sets. Joe Fugate's DVDs on "Scenery", shows how to make conifer trees, and deciduous trees from Super Scenic reindeer moss,(which is available at model railroad hobby shops). Incidentally, the background of distant low hills, with blue sky above, (on my photo), is made from glued on sets of sequential 8"x11" SceniKing scenes, which come with uniform top bue sky photos Previous to gluing on the sets of pictures, with a giant Glue Stick", I had matching blue color paint mixed at the paint store, and used a roller to paint the four background walls, of my around the room layout. I see that you still have the "shadow head AVATAR". Since you know the Hosting and Posting of pictures technique, you may wish to substitute one of you own photos, as your AVATAR. Just get a "Copied" photo that you wish to use, and then click on "Inbox (below the boxes on the right, as you sign in on the Trains.com/forums. Follow my thread directions, and your AVATAR will appear, from then on. Below is a photo of forced perspective of my HO rail train, with N scale train behind it on a slightly raised platform, and the SceniKing background . Click on the photos to enlarge, and then "Full Screen" on the Tool Bar, (at left - above) Bob Hahn
Looks darn good from here. My first scenery looked almost that good too; it was all down hill from there, however. Beware of beginer's luck!
Aceman--
That's a really FINE start! I like what you've done so far. My only comments would be to increase the brush a little, and use some mixed colors going from light to dark greens. Also, since it looks as if you're using the WS 'clump' brush, would be to lightly mist it with thinned glue and sprinkle on some of the WS (or whatever brand you're using) fine ground foam--it'll give the brush a more 'leafy' look. I don't know what area of the country you're modeling, but out here in the West (California Sierra) deer tend to move about in brush because of their natural predators (other than hunters, LOL!).
But you've got a really nice start going there. Frankly, I wish MY first attempts at scenery had turned out as well when I started way back when in the Dark Ages
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
ya there no yellow in there i have a dark green turf and a lighter green static grass over the gound colour im waiting for my new colours to come
and thanks for everybodys comments and sugestions on my first layout