Sci-fi Trees

[O Dinas Powys]

We have a posh deli next to where I work. I'll see if they have any and at the very least get a brand name for you

Cheers! 

Campanelle is also called gigli or riccioli.

This is a photo from a few years ago of the giant fungi I was working on.  Unfortunately, they got dropped and some of them got a bit smashed before I finished them:


Whilst the damage is irreparable, they'd still be usable if I pulled my finger out and got them finished!  Trouble is, I was modelling them on a particular real-world variety of stink-horn and I was a bit of a perfectionist for getting them accurate back then! 

Now, I'd just paint them to go with the new trees, but can't find the pasta!! 

Maybe I'll just recycle these... 

[Fenton]

Tescos have gigli on there online store

[Techno]

Awwwww....

If they've been too damaged to make it worth your while to repair them.....That is such a shame.
They really are rather special.

Cheers - Phil.

[O Dinas Powys]

Tescos have gigli on there online store

Cool, thanks for the heads up.  Might have to take a trip to our not-quite-local branch at some point 

[O Dinas Powys]

Managed some base texturing over the last couple of days.

First, mixed a past using (transparent yellow oxide) craft acrylic and both fine and coarse grained modelling paste which I got from Lidl a year or two back in a 1:1:1 ratio:


I slathered this on a good layer to see how it would cover when dried:

[O Dinas Powys]

I let this dry over-night in the boiler cupboard.  The acrylic shrank down onto the base as it dried, which worked really well over the hot-glue.  I'm not sure the difference shows in the photos, but it's quite noticeable in the flesh:


Next, I washed the base with Citadel Chestnut ink (original range from the late 80's):




The pictures aren't great so it doesn't show very well, but this has really made them pop  

Hopefully it'll work with my sci-fi figures for the painting competition, although the experiment has shown I'll need to use some putty/filler otherwise the figures' integral bases will stick out like Phil's thumb...  

Next step: foliage! 

Cheers!

Meirion

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice Merion

[Techno]

Hopefully it'll work with my sci-fi figures for the painting competition, although the experiment has shown I'll need to use some putty/filler otherwise the figures' integral bases will stick out like Phil's thumb...  
Cheers!
Meirion

Bog off !! 

(I like the optical illusion in the bottom piccy, where the 'tree', at the bottom right, seems to be floating in mid air and casting a shadow underneath......Keep telling you my 2D perspective is rubbish !)

Those are looking really spiffy, Meirion.

Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

Bog off !! 

(I like the optical illusion in the bottom piccy, where the 'tree', at the bottom right, seems to be floating in mid air and casting a shadow underneath......Keep telling you my 2D perspective is rubbish !)



Cheers - Phil

Amazing what vegetation can do on some planets.

[fsn]

I like these. I may have to appropriate this idea.

[O Dinas Powys]

I remembered these - they're 42mm explosions from Irregular - that I bought for use in my fungal forest project.

I was never quite happy with how they turned out, so I've given them a repaint to fit in with my blue/red colour scheme:


...and here with some Pendraken Grey Aliens for size comparison:


Cheers!

Meirion

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great work. Maybe a lighter coloured fruit?

[O Dinas Powys]

Great work. Maybe a lighter coloured fruit?

Possibly, at the moment the darker bits in the frond are painted blue to represent "woody" parts protruding from within, but they could get another use 

[Techno]

I like those...

(I'm with Will on slightly lighter 'fruits'.....Light drybrush with 'orange' perhaps ?  ......Just might make them 'pop'.)

Overall, I think they're really zippy. 

Cheers - Phil

[O Dinas Powys]

Work progresses! 

Foliage applied to a tree and a shrub!



Cheers!

Meirion