Finishing the green stuff!

Hi all, work is going on. First some fine turf overall:

After drying:

With the actors:

Now the bigger brushes. From my friend Martin Welberg from Martin Welberg Scenery I got some testmats and not-approved-for-sale mats. They came in very handy now. Tore them off and applied them with white glue:

Looks better already!:

He has a fine range of brushes so I applied some of them:

The mats:

The big brushes are in place:

Now its time for the finer stuff. One of my favourites to use are the Heki Flor and Microflor products:

Cut them in random pieces:

Then smaller pieces:

Apply dots of white glue:

Tear the little piece in all directions and after that drop it in the glue and form it a little with your fingers. The result is very good low growth:

With some flower tufts:

Ready for the grass fibers:

The grassfibers are applied with a static applicator from RTS. Its there 55 kV model and it works great up to 12 mm long fibers. Very easy to use, its power is a 9V block battery:

First lightbrown fibers:

Brown is all ready:

Starting with the green:

And ready:

All took me a good hour of work. Overall view:

Closeups. Middle:

Left corner:

Right corner:

The case needed a little more depth, applied a small strip of wood on the front:

Painted in the right colour:

And with the front screwed on:

Very happy with it! My friend Ronald (yes, same name!!) has a laser and is designing and making some typical ACW gate stuff so stay tuned. More to come!

Greetz, Ronald.

The picture is clear!

 Goodmorning!

Progress is good! Made a extra ledstrip in the back, later I will explain why:

Looks good so far:

Needed fine sand to make a good landscape filler like the MIG and Vallejo ones. This is Chincilla sand:

Basis of the mix I make is Gesso from the artist shops:

Some acrylic paint to colour it:

And mix it thoroughly:

The first piece on the base:

And on the rest. Because of the fine sand it gives a good rough underground:

After it dried I had to soften the background colours, they where to hard. So I took my airbrush and compressor outside:

And toned down the colours and set a white above the horizon line:

With light on:

And with the base in it:

So that was done. Then I did give the base a black wash:

And let it dry overnight:

We are getting there!:

After the wash the terrain needed a drybrush, I do that with the same acrylic tube colours:

When that has dried (short time) it was time for the first Woodland Scenics fineturf. I use the two basic colours brown and green:

The technique is simple; "stipple" white glue directly random:

And push a little with a brush:

Then apply a little from both in the same move:

And work your way over the base:

The result is this:

Put it back in the case to see it under its own light:

Satisfied! Later!