Act one: THE INVADING MUTANT GIANT TREES MARCHES.
In full array for battle they march in a single mass and bears down on a hapless family painting a fence.
Sorry, i could not resist.
Anyhow very good pictures!
The thing that did it was the man mowing the grass showing finer cut grass against the rows of rough left.
I am humbled and made mute by the display of modeling here.
Terry,
Looks great! Keep up the good work.
Nick
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Thanks for the tips on the foil and the speedy reply, I might just have to re-do my roundhouse roof with that technique.
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
I just started another thread called "Pics of my latest diorama updated w/flocked trees". Check it out I flocked one tree and took pics of both to see if there was a major difference. Wow what a difference. Much more tree like with the flock. Thanks for everyones insight. So check the new thread out and let me know what you think.
Terry in Florida
Charlie - Tks for the feedback. We have 6.5 acres of Oak trees and they are all around the house. I was too lazy to put everything in the truck and drive out back were there is a 100 acre hunting preserve with a tree line a half mile away. I think that would work better. But your response does motivate me to load it all up an try it again. Tks
Ryan - As far as the tin roof goes I didn't have all the fancy stuff the author had so I was forced to improvise. I had a roof section off of an old IHC Building that was corrigated. I cut the aluminum foil into small sections. I placed the small piece on the plastic roof and lined up the foil with the lines on the plastic roof piece and held it in place on one end with my thumb. I then ran my other thumb down the strip to embed the lines in the foil. I switched thumbs and did the same with the other end. I really learned to watch how much pressure I was putting on them as I glued them to the styrene roof with Tacky Glue. It doesn't take much to smush the lines.
Terry in FLorida
scubaterry wrote:
Your modeling looks pretty good Terry. But I'd suggest a change in the background for this picture. Remember that things in HO (this is HO isn't it?) are 1/87th the size of'real' stuff. So those trees in the background look like they're 87 times closer than they are.
To really integrate the foreground (diorama) with the background you'll need to get your diorama much further away from those trees. You'd need to be 87' from them to make 'em look like they're 1 foot away (from the camera). Since 1' away is either in front of or in the middle of the diorama. If the rear edge of the diorama is 3' from the camera and you want those trees to look like they're 90 scale feet behind the diorama you'll need to back off until those trees are 4 x 87' = 348' away. This will eliminate the background trees (and buildings are worse than trees!) looking like a previously unknown species of mutatant deciduous giant sequoias.
Also try to avoid showing obvious edges to the diorama or a direct connection from the diorama to the background.
An article about this appeared in the April (I think) MR last year.
Just a suggestion. (and a nice job of modeling!)
Regards,
Charlie Comstock
Love the diorama, that scene is chock a block full of detail. I espcecially like the roof you did on the garage, I remember that article and you come really close to the one in that MR issue.
How did you get the corrugations in the foil for that roof?
Nice work! I really like the building. The aged bare wood looks great!
Try putting some spray glue and fine ground foam on some of that lichen. I've been making some trees like that and they're turning out pretty good.
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Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Nice job.
I learned something by looking at that, Lichen's useful for trees.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
People really, really need to see this:
scubaterry wrote: Terry in Florida
Superb! Wow, I really like the trees, and the building. I hope you save a space for this scene on your layout.
By the way, you inserted the "thumbnails" rather than the full pictures. Thats' why they were so small. The "th_" in front of the URL's was the giveaway.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I thought construction of my benchwork would start soon butunfortunately the project was axed by the latest round of budgetcuts. So I decided to build another diorama to test my skills andlearn new ones. The old garage was based on an article in the Nov07 issue of MRR by Kathleen Renninger. Basically scratch builtwith aluminum foil, sandpaper, gatorboard and cut up railroads ties forsiding. The two large oak trees were made with wire, drywall mudfor bark and moss for foliage. And I finally found a use for my1.97 old JD tractor from Wal-Mart.