hedges... WIP

[anevilgiraffe]

ok... fun time with the scatter grip... that stuff is great... although it appears to help stick the flock somehow in places where I didn't put any, so the gaps I left aren't always visible... most obvious on the upper of the two gateways... will let it cure and see if it gives up more loose stuff...





just need to add the foliage now... downside as I've just discovered is I don't have anything to keep the foliage in once I open the packs, so that may have to wait til after a trip to poundland...

these are rapidly looking like my first ever finished proper bit of scenery... they're made from industrial polisher pads, plasticard bases and balsa for the stiles, gate and posts...

[Malamute]

They're looking great.

[Calimero]

Yep they do look great

[anevilgiraffe]

They're looking great!  Will they be used for Dr Who?

  it's a fair bet... but a hedge is a hedge is a hedge...

[anevilgiraffe]

most of the Pertwee UNIT stories were set out in the countryside to some extent... Day of the Daleks, the 3 Doctors, Spearhead from Space, Claws of Axos, the Silurians...

[Wirelizard]

Those look great, I like how you did the bases for the two curved pieces.

I should finish my pot-scrubber hedges, they've been sulking in one corner of my desk for months unbased and only partly flocked!

[Grimmnar]

Those look great, I like how you did the bases for the two curved pieces.

I should finish my pot-scrubber hedges, they've been sulking in one corner of my desk for months unbased and only partly flocked!

Same here though mine have been sitting for a much longer time. So much so the better half stole one some time back to actually do the dishes. I mean WTH was she thinking. Pot scrubbers to do dishes. Everyone in their right mind knows they are for making cheap hedges.  :-)

Grimm

[anevilgiraffe]

Those look great, I like how you did the bases for the two curved pieces.

they actually fit in with my roads you see... have a couple of odd corners in an old english lane kind of way and they follow them perfectly... 

[Lowtardog]

They look bloody good AEG

[Chairface]

most of the Pertwee UNIT stories were set out in the countryside to some extent... Day of the Daleks, the 3 Doctors, Spearhead from Space, Claws of Axos, the Silurians...

And a bunch of the newer ones - The Wasp and the Unicorn, the Family of Blood, Tooth and Claw, etc etc.

[anevilgiraffe]

ok, my first bash using this foliage stuff... I'm not sure I'm doing it right... it looks great loose and clump - dead like a hedge, but because of the uneven surface of the polisher pad for the branches, I need to press it in quite a bit, but then it looses the loose clumpy look and looks, well, pressed... also pressing means some of the scatter grip ends up on the fingers and that stuff just stays sticky...

done one so far, pics aren't brilliant I'll admit, but I would appreciate some opinions on this as this is very new techniques for me...



only done the one corner piece for now, quick pic for scale as I realise there isn't anything scalewise in any of my other in progress shots...



now this has revealed a slight problem... the polishers go up to the edge of each base, if I leave the ends foliage free, when I use the stiles, the look odd... if I put foliage on the same as the rest of the hedge, it doesn't allow the other pieces to sit closely... so I either clip back each polisher from the edge to allow for foliage, or do the limited foliage that I've now ended up with on one end (in fact just removing the prouder bits of the normal test on there if that makes sense) which is deeper inside the polisher bits (hence the branches visible)...



I also figure that due to the looseness of the foliage I definitely need some of the scenic cement stuff... or would just dullcote do?
I think that works, but not sure... of course if I do this again, the stiles will be in the middle of their hedge bits not at the end...