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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Mark McDaniel on April 04, 2014, 07:46:55 PM
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Good Morning,
Today my project was to make some haystacks for my Saga games, and decided to do some 15mm stuff for BC, while I was at it.
Took about an hour list of supplies:4
Plastic easter egg tops
Small fishing bobbers
PVA glue
White Primer
Woodland scenics static grass
Tamiya dark yellow (airbrushed)
Let me know what you think.
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Her is a picture of my start:
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Looks good, but wouldn't it have been better to use the dried grass variant given it already has a pale hay-like color ?
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Those are really nice and grassy!
Have you thought about putting a vertical pole in the middle?
Like this (http://kraji.eu/PICTURES/goriska/kobarid_z_okolico/dreznica_z_okolico/koseska_korita/DSC_7973_koseska_korita_big.jpg).
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I thought about some lighter flock, but I had a few beers and didnt want to drive to the store, maybe today I will stop by the train shop today and touch them up.
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I thought about some lighter flock, but I had a few beers and didnt want to drive to the store, maybe today I will stop by the train shop today and touch them up.
Good thinking (about the not driving)
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Sissel rope, untwisted and cut into small (5-10mm) pieces makes excellent straw or hay.
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Hey Mark,
Nice stuff! Wish you were closer to So Cal as we could do some SAGA together! If you are every down this way give us a shout! :D
Meanwhile since I see you have an "airbrush" try doing this to give the hay stacks a bit of "definition", divide the stack into thirds horizontally and do a few darker rings around it then dry brush a light straw color above it. This will give the illusion of successive bunches of hay piled up. I did this on my Dark Age huts because the sculptor left the lines out and I painted them in. Bill W
(http://www.historicalhobbies.com/Building Article/Finish a1.jpg)
You can see the whole article at www.HistoricalHobbies.com (http://www.HistoricalHobbies.com)