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[Pentaro]

Very useful, thanks.

[Doomsdave]

Very nice and helpful tutorial.  Thanks.  I bought an aquarium decoration gate because I am dangerous with modeling tools.

[Wirelizard]

That's an elegant model, aside from the part where you skewer yourself working with bamboo!

The tips for weathering wood are universal for any wooden structure, too. The other thing I'd add is that you can use the teeth of the fine saws like the one you use to cut your wood - dragging the teeth lengthwise along the wood is a great way to create or exaggerate the grain.

Oh, and the title you gave this thread? An awesome, terrible pun. Congratulations... I think.

[Henrix]

At long last here's the finished torii. Now with more vegetables.

I waited a long while before finishing it, because I wanted t try out some new tufts from Tajima, but it seems the Swedish post has lost them. (At least I suppose that's why they still haven't appeared after six weeks. It may have been stopped in customs, but he denies having declared them as 'Grass'.) Replacement tufts are on their way, but I decided not to wait any longer, but use ordinary static grass instead.

Ichiro is included for scale purposes solely.

Oh, and the title you gave this thread? An awesome, terrible pun. Congratulations... I think.

Thanks! It goes, literally, with the territory (or 'location' if you will). A statement that makes no sense whatsoever if you're not well acquainted with Swedish culture.

[Marine0846]

It turned out great.
Love the grasses and plants.

[Centaur_Seducer]

 

Just another 10 and you're ready to go

[joroas]

Wire brushes are usually available from Poundland, etc......

[Henrix]

Just another 10 and you're ready to go

I don't think I'll make a whole forest of the things.

A forest of trees like the one I did here, now that could be something.
Recreating the marshy lake where the Spirit of the Forest lives would make a nice and interesting terrain.

But first an abandoned shrine. With a tree.

[Hummster]

Useful, even though I'm not going to use Bushido I've got some Dixons 28mm Samurai I need some terrain for so I can follow this (though not using bamboo dowels....)

[Henrix]

(though not using bamboo dowels....)

That's the moral of this story, isn't it? 

[OSHIROmodels]

Turned out very nice 

cheers

James

[Henrix]

Thank you, Jim!

[Thargor]

Really nice Henrix.  May have to dig this thread out again (and your tree one) when I eventually get around to painting up my Bushido figures and gaming with them.

[Hitman]

Great tutorial. Your project turned out great. Where did you get the little ferns and flowers. They are a really nice touch.
Regards,
Hitman
 

[Henrix]

Thanks, guys!

The flowers and the leafy tuft are MiniNatur - don't remember where I bought them. Some railway modelling internet store, I think.

I just got  my missing grass tufts and stuff from Tajima Miniatures. It's very nice stuff.
And a thoroughly nice guy - when he heard the first package had been lost by the Swedish post he immediately offered to send a new one, free of charge. I bought some more stuff from him.

The ferns are palm fronds from some miniature plastic palm trees bought from China on eBay. Fairly nice palms, excellent ferns.