Suspended Bridge

[Teardrop World]

The critters are made by Busch, model railroad in HO scale. They are very small, and there are frogs, birds, fish etc.
The colored moss come from railroad kits, the green moss is a mix of different basing turf.

[pocoloco]

Wonderful build! 

[Constable Bertrand]

Brilliant! The execution of the stone faces and little jungle critters is spot on!   
I can see Indy or Cap'n Sparrow running across it chased by natives!

Cheers
Matt

[Teardrop World]

Thank for your replies 

Actually working on the planks, the bridge will be wide enough to let monsters pass. The final result will be slightly different from what I had in mind, I should have made the pillar higher  . Note to myself: Must absolutely exagerate all dimensions when working on fantasy terrain.

[Golgotha]

Can't wait to see this completed I take it work has been suspended in the interim.

[Teardrop World]

First draft with balsa planks, then glued wire ropes. But the glue broke    and the overall bridge was too wide for my taste. Re-doing the wire armature with twisted brass, more softer than iron, and welded with lead. More "ropes" to be added with a thinner wire. I plan to hide the soldering point with moss etc.

Original bridge with broken roping:


The new armature:

[Andym]

Missed this! Great idea with stone faces!

[DELTADOG]

You get the Masterchief Award for Bridgebuilders from me! Such a cute nice Scenerypiece! I´m really curius to see it finished on the table!

[Teardrop World]

  thanks

[pistolpete]

looks fantastic - love the idea of the stone/face pillars.  how did you make them?  i'd like to steal borrow try it for my next suspension bridge.

[Teardrop World]

looks fantastic - love the idea of the stone/face pillars.  how did you make them?  i'd like to steal borrow try it for my next suspension bridge.

The originals are made with Fimo, then I've made a mold and cast them with plaster. The idea was to cast a huge amount of these face, then build a castle with them. I stealed the idea in a film, I think it was "Kalidor".

[Teardrop World]

Bridge almost finished. Captain Hookar tried to cross it, but natives asked him for some kind of bribes.



The vegetation on the ropes is a fail. I tried to soak cotton wool in diluted paint and add some turf. Using fine thread should have been a better result.

Another view:

[OSHIROmodels]

Turned out great 

How about teasing the cotton wool out a bit with some tweezers to make it a bit more stringy?

cheers

James

[Teardrop World]

Turned out great 

How about teasing the cotton wool out a bit with some tweezers to make it a bit more stringy?

cheers

James

I tried, but the wool was too fragile. In fact the wool was not soaked but DROWNED to death in a very liquid paint. After a night of intensive care, drying on a radiator, the wool was like plastic sheets that can be fold. Impossible to guess the vegetal origins of the "Chose" (Thing). It was my first experience with that and I need maybe a lot more training. The result just greatly hurt my eyes.

[Harry]

Brilliant. Great results.