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Hi all, I'm looking for some good options for some scale crops for a base in 1/48 scale.I'd like to do wheat or corn, either would be fine.All of the examples I have been seeing seem to be more from the model railroad world, "O" scale looks to be the closest match but all fall a bit flat in scale approach. They probably look great when viewed from a distance as in a large scale train set.The base I'm planning on using is about 10" in diameter, so something very realistic is what I'm looking for.
Does anyone have any good recomendations or approaches to this?
Cheers!
-Colin.
Perhaps you should try to scratch build corn and wheat? I'm guesing the stalks would be 6-10 feet tall? At 1:48 that would be 1.5" - 2.5". Something like that. Perhaps look on Youtube for scratch building plants ect.
Griffin
Sorry I can't help you but I had to ask considering your avatar* you're not doing a crop circle diorama are you???
*Is it the C-47D from 'Forbidden Planet'?
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
Griffin25 Perhaps you should try to scratch build corn and wheat? I'm guesing the stalks would be 6-10 feet tall? At 1:48 that would be 1.5" - 2.5". Something like that. Perhaps look on Youtube for scratch building plants ect.
Yeah that's what i've been doing and I seem to find a lot of model railroad stuff that doesn't seem real enought. Just reaching out to see if anyone had done this. Maybe with larger figure diorama's?
Gamera Sorry I can't help you but I had to ask considering your avatar* you're not doing a crop circle diorama are you??? *Is it the C-47D from 'Forbidden Planet'?
Hahahaa, you hit the nail on the head! One of my favourite sci-fi movies.
I'm actually in the middle of building an Adamski ufo. My first full complete build in over 13 years. I'm getting back into scale modeling.I did pull a half done at-st walker from star wars out of storage a while ago but it wasn't cooperating so I switched to the ufo.
The idea is a small amount of crops with a crop circle "line" in the middle and a beam of cast tinted resin with bent crops at the bottom of the cast as the support for the ufo. As the ufo is doing a work in progress on a crop circle.Trying to make it interesting vs just "stick it on a pole on a base and call it done"
http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/6/t/168492.aspx
A bunch of laser-cut paper plants, including corn, although in 1/35th;
http://www.realityinscale.com/epages/61537336.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61537336/Categories/%22Green%20Line%22/Laser_Cut_Plants__Leaves
Maybe something useful here...pretty pricey though.
Ixion A bunch of laser-cut paper plants, including corn, although in 1/35th; http://www.realityinscale.com/epages/61537336.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61537336/Categories/%22Green%20Line%22/Laser_Cut_Plants__Leaves Maybe something useful here...pretty pricey though.
Those are fantastic!
I'm going to see about taking a crack at some diy paper ones.
Thanks for the lead in that direction.
I just found this which looks promising. A bit time consuming but the result looks good. I wonder if I can pull it off in 1/48.http://miniatures.about.com/od/makeminiatureplants/ss/cornstalks.htm#showall
Nice tutorial, good looking finished product, but I hope you aren't planning to model the entire state of Iowa, because it looks rather time consuming.
I bogged down trying to build some Diopark Sunflowers, gluing all the leaves on was a pain....
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