Tutorial: Realistische Palmen

Heute haben wir ein sehr schickes Gasttutorial für Euch, das Dioramenbauer und Freizeitpiraten gleichermaßen interessieren könnte.

Das Diorama wurde auf der Facebookseite von Dioramaman veröffentlicht, und so sieht es aus:

Since I got so many nice comments and quite a few requests for a more specific ‚how-to-do‘ on these palm trees – well, here it is; The 18 pictures in this post will (try to) show how I make the trees. Short description will be found by each picture.

This is what I’¨ve found most useful as trunk for palm trees – reed. Best time to ‚harvest‘ those are in the Winter as they are dry and easy to handle then.

After harvesting the reed, I Clean off dry parts/leaves – depending on what scale you’re working in there are thinner pieces the higher up on the reed you get

To make them less ‚fragile‘ – they are rather thin and hollow – I cut them just beneath the spot where there was a leave when it was growing

The top – to fasten the palm-leaves in – is made out of styrofoam – cut and sand to shape and glued to the ‚trunk‘

Make more than one at the time….will become useful sometime…

To get a suitable Surface on the trunk and the top section I cover the entire piece with one sheet of a brown paper napkin. Water/glue mixture is perfect for this purpose.

Once dry the Surface get a structure that looks ok to resemble a palm tree trunk. The styrofoam top is also ‚incorporated‘ into the ‚construction‘ in a discreet way.

Applying a thin layer – drybrushing – of tan enamel to the dark Brown Surface wich gives an even more realistic finish

A Close up of the dry brushed top sections

….and the trunks….

Then on to the leaves. Bird feathers! I found the smaller feathers, 4-5-6cm in size, to be the best to use. I don’t know much about birds but I suppose these originated on seagulls. No, there is not a nudist camp with naked seagulls Walking around here – they drop feathers and I pick them up when I find them. Call it second hand – or recycling… 😀

They are small, a Little bent and very thin

Placing them on a glass Surface I apply one layer of green enamel to each side. Yes, you do get a nice coat of green ‚Nail enamel‘ on a couple of finger Nails in this process…

When the paint is dry, I do a touch up layer on the top of the feather/leaf

It takes somewhere around 25-30 feathers to make ONE palm tree….

The bottom of the leaf with the brownish center that is painted after the green is completely dry

And the result – mounting the feathers in the styrofoam top making a small hole in it and gluing the leaf in place

And the result – well they look quite realistic to me! 🙂

Wir bedanken uns für das Tutorial und die Erlaubnis es hier zu teilen!

Quelle: Dioramaman bei Facebook