Since the last post I've now added the two base layers of static grass to the entire diorama and started to add the heather bushes. The third layer of static grass will be added when the heather is in place to fill the grassy gaps. I'm going to hold off on showing the current states for now, but Bryony thought it looked so good that she wondered if I really should add the purple heather flowers as she was worried I'd ruin it. So that meant I had to expand on my
previous small heather experiment to see how a bigger area would look.
Personally I think this looks horrible which is a shame as I thought the small experiment showed promise. So unless I come up with another approach for doing heather flowers in the next ten days then I'm going to leave them off and assume that the diorama represents a time of the year before the heather flowers. I guess you might call that cheating, but I'd prefer to leave the flowers off than completely ruin the model.
Mark,
ReplyDeleteSuch a shame about the heather - such a lovely girl!
One suggestion if I may - have a look at Flower Soft's products, might be an alternative. I'm struggling to find a site that shows the full range but there's a seller on Ebay (no connection) who seems to sell most of the colours - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Flower-Soft-Pots-30ml-Jar-Solid-Colours-Ivory-Yellow-Red-Orange-Blue-More-/171592195175?var=&hash=item27f3b11c67:m:mi9Y3vQvNHL7LGGtw-wzHFw.
Regards,
David V.
Aah ... sorry ... just gone back and read your previous post and noted that it was Flower Soft you were using. Sorry!
ReplyDeleteNo worries. I'd prefer people to make suggestions than worry about if it has already been tried. I'd hate to miss out on a great idea. If seen some wonderful work with flower soft on other layouts, especially in 7mm scale, but I just couldn't get it to work for me. Shame really as the heather mix looks great in the packet.
DeleteThanks. Would one of the other colours work better rather than the heather mix?
ReplyDeletePossibly, although part of the problem I had was the size of the bits as well as the colour. I might have another look though and see if there is anything else in the smaller sized range.
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