Advances in Vietnam Diorama "Low level hell"

wow...

what vegitation products do you use??? this looks like a mini garden- not a mini diorama!!

Now I,m working in the water buffalo and the cart. The buffalo is the one from Doug´s original, mastered by the wellknown modeller Douglas Lee, a really pleasure to paint. It´s allmost finished, just the horns waiting for lights and shadows. The cart is an Italeri jeep trailer with some modifications to look like an "adaptation" for a more "rustic" use as buffalo cart. The painting is on progress.

Comments welcome.

PS: If you made a click on the pictures you can see them all.

Santiago

I like your work. 

That last picture of the buffalo looks almost real.

Wow..

Santiago

The shading and colors on the buffalo are stunning! Your plants are awesome! Please share your secret about that tropical vegetation.

plastickjunkie wrote:

Santiago The shading and colors on the buffalo are stunning! Your plants are awesome! Please share your secret about that tropical vegetation.

csago wrote:

About the groundwork, the base is posidonia grass (commercial name is "wild grass" in USA ). You can find posidonia balls in the mediterranean and australian beaches in spring and automn, you can pick a bit from the ball, and glue it on you dio; it´s the best grass I now. The high grass is hemp rope, and the rest of plants are just natural plants from public gardens; everything is paintend with acrilics. There is some part of silflor and mininature grass, and the coconut trunks are just wooden sticks with painter tape around. Thank you very much

It´s a question of trail and error. Normally I take the plants with littlest leaves, and paint them with acrilics, and wait some days to see of the plants dries ... excuse me because I,m very short of vocabulary in english so I can´t tell you about the names of the plants I use ...

Santiago

That is one fantastic vegetation display, it looks darn real! You have an excellent eye for this kind of work.  Please continue to post development of your diorama.

Very impressive, Santiago. The foilage is fantastic. I know you briefly described, below, how you made the foilage, but would you consider a short tutorial for the rest of us amatures?

Jim

Looks fabulous so far, but just a comment on the buffalo.

I live in Laos (neighbouring Vietnam) and I have never seen a buffalo with white flanks or pale horns. They are always overall black or pale pinkish brown. Any variation in overall colour of a buffalo is due to mud stuck to its bristly fur. Buffalos spend most of their day rolling in mud, so they are ALWAYS caked in it. From a distance, this may look like different colours but it's not.

I could send you some photos but it's probably just as easy to get them from the internet.

Hope this helps. 

Thank you very much for your comments about buffalo colours. Yes, most of the pictures of water buffalos are about dark grey animals, but there are grey/dark brown with beige belly and legs too. I choose that colours because are more atractive for the wiever than the all dark buffalos.

And about the horns, the painting is on progress, they should be painted with shadows and lights...

 An example of animal with beige belly and legs

 Really, I even found pictures with a buffalo in white and brown colours, just like a european milk cow ¡¡¡¡¡

Beautiful work, friend!!!!

Don't worry about your English--your work speaks loud and clear!

Fantastic!!!!

the doog wrote:

Don't worry about your English--your work speaks loud and clear!

but it's nice to hear from you about the process and the materials you use. Thanks!

csago wrote:

An example of animal with beige belly and legs

Thanks for that. I wouldn't have beleived it if I'd not seen that photo. Not only is it the first multi-coloured buffalo I've ever seen, but it also has to be the cleanest I've ever seen!