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Author Topic: “Fire in the hole!” - time to kick some ass!  (Read 36396 times)

Offline Mick_in_Switzerland

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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - First Paddy Field
« Reply #195 on: November 29, 2019, 08:56:26 AM »
That is the best jungle scenery that I have ever seen.  :-* :-*
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Offline von Lucky

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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #196 on: November 29, 2019, 08:59:03 PM »
Agree, well done.
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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #197 on: November 29, 2019, 09:16:35 PM »
Those trees are gobsmackingly good.
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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #198 on: November 29, 2019, 10:47:24 PM »
Many thanks chaps, very pleased they are hitting the mark. 

But having just finished this one, it is now my favourite, complete with buttress roots.




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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #199 on: November 30, 2019, 12:23:51 AM »
The buttress roots....was that working from something you had seen, or photo reference? I have seen pics of similar trees in the Amazon but the roots weren't covered, they stuck some way out the ground and sometimes had space underneath. I just wondered why you covered them over?
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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #200 on: November 30, 2019, 12:32:20 AM »
Yup I’ve seen both types but in the jungles of Cameroon where I lived as a kid, these were quite normal.

A quick search on buttress roots and these are similar....




Offline vodkafan

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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #201 on: November 30, 2019, 07:41:04 AM »
Oh yeah....weird looking!  :o Charlie could hide half a platoon behind one tree!

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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #202 on: November 30, 2019, 08:24:33 AM »
Very impressive work.  :o

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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #203 on: December 02, 2019, 09:02:37 AM »
The trees are gorgeous indeed ! Would nick the idea but storage will be a problem as they are so big.
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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #204 on: December 03, 2019, 07:15:23 AM »
I've seen similar trees on Borneo, excellent modelling sir :)

How about putting them in the windows and telling the wife that they're real plants?
Saves you storage and watering the plants

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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #205 on: December 06, 2019, 12:37:28 PM »
I had thought of that.....but my wife can kill ANY house plant and I’ve spent entirely too long making it!  lol

Anyway, pleased with this little idea, I will need to get hands on a couple more.  Reaper do a murder of crows.  Taking off from the tops of the trees like this gives me a little sense of a gun crack disturbing the quiet of the forest....




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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #206 on: December 06, 2019, 07:28:16 PM »
Fantastic! That's a really characterful addition to your already cracking work.

Offline von Lucky

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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #207 on: December 07, 2019, 09:48:34 AM »
Loving this thread - and the animals are all well thought through to execution.

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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #208 on: December 07, 2019, 12:01:39 PM »
Thanks.  To be fair whoever sculpted them deserves the credit.   Biggest issue I have is finding sufficiently useful animals.

For Africa, the mammals are pretty well catered for.....Though Mostly for th3 savanna,  where I lived in Cameroon, you actually didn’t see many mammals in the jungle.   Wild pigs, civets, chimpanzees, monkeys yes, but not a lot else.  Of course there were leopards and other skulking things but very rare to see.  Pretty much EVERY day you would hear the lowland gorillas but your chances of seeing them were zip.   What you DID see was an absolute abundance of bird life and I expect nothing less of SE Asian forests. 

Anywhere you find water, you will always see birds.  The egrets are actually very populous from what I saw both in Africa and Vietnam so they will feature heavily and luckily you can buy them.  I have the peacocks to paint....and though I don’t recall seeing any, they do exist in Vietnam. 

You can buy ducks, and I want some swimming ones when I get round to pools.  I have some parrots to paint, so I need to look at appropriate ones for the region, though as  a personal favourite, the African grey, I may put one in for kicks ( plus I’m using this for an African game too).

Sadly, the only company I can find making suitable monkeys is Gringo, they are great but sadly only two poses of the same type.  I can add baboons for Africa and fir chance encounter, plenty of choice of gorilla.  Gringo also made the great tiger I painted.

Crows thankfully can be found pretty much everywhere, but after that, I’m struggling with birds to find any.  I can lay hands on the on bird of prey / vulture, but not much else.

Snakes....I’m about to try and heat and bend the few I have, but surprisingly I’m struggling to find many I can use.

I’m sure I will find a waterline / submerged  croc I like. 

I keep looking.  If anyone does spot suitable miniatures I’ve missed PLEASE do let me know.

What I’m most interested in finding, hornbills, other wading birds, sika deer, more snakes (not giant ones!), guinea fowl, monkeys.
« Last Edit: December 07, 2019, 12:15:54 PM by Digits »

Offline von Lucky

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Re: “Fire in the hole!” - Vietnam revisited - Big Tropical Trees!
« Reply #209 on: December 07, 2019, 02:15:28 PM »
Chickens (and other farm animals liek pigs)? The Eureka Miniature ones (you'll need to email Nic for them) are very nice.

 

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