Painting such small detail is fiddly and I am not quite content with the resulting look yet: Although it is often said that glossiness plays no role in distant viewing I think the paint on these lamp posts should be …
Added a small storage section for firewood to the farm. This close-up shows there is still some detailing to be done: the corner of the walls doesn’t look too good and obviously we need to do something to the gap …
Two models I designed in Blender and had printed at Shapeways.com came in yesterday. The lamp post is designed to hold a standard 3mm round LED and therefore has a removable top cover to make it possible to insert the …
the well truned out quite ok: note that in both pictures there are still some wet globs of PVA glue visible. When i decide on the final position of the well in the meadow i will add some weeds and …
I created an apple tree from soldered copper wire, glue plus plaster and poly fiber. Now I added some aplpes made from colored mustard seeds:
The first stage of weathering a simple farmhouse model. “real” vegetation will be adde later.
Started on the design of a 3d printed stone bridge. Since the work is done in Blender, I’ll post about it on my Small Blender Things blog.
I admit I was a bit sceptical at first but converting an electric flyswatter to a static grass applicator really works. In the picture below a closeup of 6mm grass added with the applicator:
Maybe still a bit too rough but it is promising. Made by twisting copper wire around tufts of sisal twine and applying 2.5mm grass.
I wait for the greener grass parts until I have received my electronic fly swatter, but the bushes and ground turf near the edges already offer some flavour.
