Hi Guys
Here is one of my last commissions.
The legendary Tour Demoniaque of
Mid-nor of the now disappeared Rackham.
This time my inspiration for the scene
was taken from one of the 2D works of Bjorn Hurri
and below the work that made me opt for the idea of a field of grass in my scene.
I wanted to make, as much as possible,
the effect of the changing, by green and pure grass and to slimy and died of Mid Nor,
If you are interested, I bought the grass from the stand by Marco
Gravina, Maloma Games.
The more fine and thin I have ever
found in the market, and that is perfectly suited to 28mm scale.
And now, on with the pics!
And here a bit of close up pics
And just a few pictures during the wip,
And here you can also see the procedure I used to put the grass
Be careful to proceed a little bit at a time, so as to cover with grass as well the desired part, to avoid to leave hole that will be difficult to cover without leaving the classic stain plasticky due to the glue
To be sure, try it first on an other surface, to understand well the drying time..
Let's start marking the outline of our
figure on the base, just to have a reference.
Although the cool thing of the grass is that, even if a bit of
grass goes on the designated place of the model, once attack our
model at the base of the grass will be bended giving a dynamic and
realistic trampled grass effect.
We put a bit of vynil glue, directly
from the bottle at the point where we want to put the grass.
As I wrote before do little part a time
Now with an old brush dipped
in water, stretch and diluite the glue a bit (this part allows us to clean and fix minor niggles also.)
Let's take a tuft of grass, taking
care to smooth fine hair in one direction and to homogenize the side
that will glue to the base.
Support the tuft ,about 45degrees tilt on the ground, so that the glue will absorb a little tuft of
grass to.
We wait for the glue take a bit of grip on
the grass (not dry..I recommend!)
It just need a few minutes
It was almost 5 in the morning, but it doesn't matter
And now with your finger make a slight
pressure on the tuft and bring to
90 degrees tilt on the ground.
A few touches and pushes here and there to play on
the grass tuft dynamism and voilà your little corner is ready..
Let dry and move on to the next part to
be filled.
Just to wrap up, although I have no
photos ..
Let everything dry at least a day, and
then use the hair dryer directly on the grass,
in order to pull off the stems are stuck badly.
Attention then, to paint the whole
grass, DON'T GIVE the primer, and if you can use the airbrush.
With primer you will risk to paste the stems of grass between them, ruining all the work done.
And after the short guide, here are the
links to Cmon for those who want support me by voting and commenting.
Thank you very much in advance!
Cheers
Cesare "Trevis_11" Trevisiol
