Venko
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Hi,
This is well known technique, but I want to share my experience-I made this for a winter diorama, but will be useful for figure bases also.
You need first to cut asparagus pulmosis ferns and to give them a bath in glycerine to water mix 1:1, for two-three days and then leave them to dry. They will lose some of the green color, but can be painted with airbrush later. Or you can add food color green to the glycerine bath.
Then you need wood sticks, I used barbeque sticks
, but balsa dowels are better option.
Shaped to pointy end and then with wood filler adding bark texture with an old brush:
Then I colored them with oils, like Van Dyke brown, Burnt umber etc.:
Punching the sticks and then gluing the ferns to the trunk:
For bulking, I used static grass 2mm from noch, green and dry brown-for dry branches, and homemade applicator. You can repeat the process till desired result:
I sprinkled Noch powder snow over spray adhesive, for winter look:
Cheers!
This is well known technique, but I want to share my experience-I made this for a winter diorama, but will be useful for figure bases also.
You need first to cut asparagus pulmosis ferns and to give them a bath in glycerine to water mix 1:1, for two-three days and then leave them to dry. They will lose some of the green color, but can be painted with airbrush later. Or you can add food color green to the glycerine bath.
Then you need wood sticks, I used barbeque sticks
, but balsa dowels are better option.Shaped to pointy end and then with wood filler adding bark texture with an old brush:
Then I colored them with oils, like Van Dyke brown, Burnt umber etc.:
Punching the sticks and then gluing the ferns to the trunk:
For bulking, I used static grass 2mm from noch, green and dry brown-for dry branches, and homemade applicator. You can repeat the process till desired result:
I sprinkled Noch powder snow over spray adhesive, for winter look:
Cheers!
