Here is another example, that was done last year, of an attempt to make a
scratch built tree with paper leaves. I did a lot of things wrong as you can see
from the photo, but I think I learned a lot from the experience. Unfortunately,
because of the placement of the man and wife and the horse, I couldnt get
really good quality photos with any depth of field. I've shot a lot of pictures of
this vignette and still haven't gotten any good quality photos.

Secondly, I want to say something about the story line, here. I like to use
humor in my little dioramas or vignettes, because you rarely see humor in
as the story line with most modeling efforts. These figures are in 1:35th
scale, and the man and his wife are converted from pieces in my
spares box.

The idea of this piece can seem that I am demeaning the female
members of our population. And that is not my intent. I have great
respect for women, and am the proud father of my 38 year old
daughter, who means everything to me. But the play on words
is the word "nag". Some of those English speakers in the EU may
not be aware that in the USA one of the slang words for a horse
who has seen a lot of hard work is Nag. A horse can be
called a Nag. But the term call also means in English, a person
who is always picking on others, who isn't very kind or genteel
with people. They seem to always be "nagging" others.
They're not fun to be around. So, behind their backs, they are
called Nags. So the title:

A Pair of Nags

So the double meaning of "nags" is my attempt at humor. And again, no
offense intended towards wives, and women in general.

Of course, I would welcome comments pro and con. I will say further that
the reeds in the stream (it is hard to see the stream) in the front of the
fence and the leaves on the trees are cut from white bond paper, using the
same approach as with my WWII US Navy pilot in the South Pacific
figure when I made tropical Elephant Ear flora. I hope to redo those
tropical plants on that piece, since I've experimented more and think I can
do a better and more realistic job of painting various sizes of Elephant Ears.

rick

Rick, nice idea for a vignette great composition and groundwork . Many thanks for showing.

Cheers Ken

Hello Rick,

beautiful vignette
Many thanks for sharing

Gentlemen: Thanks for responding

Greetings Gentlemen:

I want to thank you for your comments. Much appreciated, even though, as
I said, the pictures are not very good.

Ken: Appreciate your kind words. I've only been a member on this site, a
short time, true, but I rarely hear composition mentioned. And like you, I see
composition as very important in this form of "art". It IS one of the basic
principals of all art forms. And even with a single figure, which is the genré
seemingly, most of our members work with, composition is still important;
and definitely on display with the examples I see. Good composition draws
the viewer eye to the correct area, first. . . when done correctly.

Pedro: You're welcome, Sir. Thanks for taking time to add your comments to
this thread, Pedro. Hopefully, I didn't offend any of our female members
with the story line.

Rick

Great vignette composition!
I liked it very much.
Superb work.

Mitsutaka

Hello Mitsutaka:

Thank you for your positive comments, much appreciated.

rick

hi mate really good to see this one again and the idea behind it is very original.
I think the conversion work to create that Nagging woman really works with the skinnier guy, i wouldnt want to mess with her and i could guess his life isnt a very relaxed one with her around.

Nice job Rickster and great choice of colours to attract the eye.

all the best mate,

Steve

Thanks to the Liecester Lad. . .

Hey Steve:

Thanks for chiming in here, mate. I do appreciate it. And I am definitely
looking forward to seeing your latest photos of your Napoleonic Era Nile
River diorama here on PF, . . . . soon???

So good to hear from you my friend. And if you don't mind, I'll explain here,
altho you personally already know what I'm saying, about one of the major
mistakes I made with that scratchbuilt tree. I used stretched sprue for the
smaller branches of the tree and drilled holes into the ApoxySculpt putty
that was folder around the wire armature. And the sprue small branches
were glued with Super Glue into those drilled holes. But what I didn't
seem to grasp, at least, until I'd glued on the last paper leaf with Elmer's
White glue, is that very few tree branches are straight. All of them are
curved in one way of another. So I should have held my sprue sections up
to a lighted lamp bulb so I could bend the sprue into curved shapes more
like what we see on a real tree. So a major "duh? " occurred. Whaaaaaaa.
Is the bar open yet????

the Miami Jayhawker