Hi guys,
This next step in most cases is where a dio looks like a disaster but is a very important point where the image in your mind makes you persevere. It's also where your experiment and composition kicks in.
I mixed a concoction of house paint, Vallejo,
Tamiya, Fine sand, Grout and Polyfilla...then coated and sealed the stream and surrounding landscape with it. Fine sand was sprinkled on the road...I will saturate it with Future and when it starts getting gooey I'll roll it flat. Hopefully it will look like tarred road.
The landscape still needs another layer of the sludge when I was called to pick my daughter up. If I hadn't been summoned I would have cleaned off the deposits on the tops of the rocks while still wet. I will now need elbow grease to scrub it off. Some do look alright for overgrown moss where I could add tufts of flocking to make it more prominent.
The stationery shop is open today so I can get some white glue to secure some additional pebbles on the shoreline of the stream and bed. I have created a dam under the bridge to catch and retain the resin from overflowing to the lower level.
I think I'm keeping you guessing on how the jungle canopy is going to form. I can visualise it but it's going to be hard work as there is no background for the dark heavy vegetation to fall back on. Only spots where I have a backing to make a false deep wooded area. Basically creepers with lush leaves often cover a face of an entrance to the jungle and I hope I can achieve that.
Cheers,
Richard