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Scenery Tips and Techniques

Chapter

Page

Title / Description

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2

Forms and Shells
Plaster-gauze scenery, easyshell scenery.

2

6

Rocks
Creating rock molds from real rock. Casting a rock wall using plaster and a form made from aluminum foil.

3

12

Ground Textures
Felt grass and weeds. Modeling a bog. Modeling snow. Modeling a slough. Modeling prairie grass using fake fur.

4

26

Bushes and Trees
Modeling corn using asparagus fern. Creating a fall scene. Creating bushes using poly fiber. Creating large pine trees from artificial Christmas trees. Furnace filter forest. Making large, broad-leaf trees. Making evergreen trees from bumpy chenille. Making flat background trees. Building a zap-texturing machine for foliage and ground cover.

5

44

Water
How to model water. Modeling water with acrylic gloss medium. Sponge modeling. Modeling rapids, rushing water, and waterfalls.

6

57

Scenic Detailing
Improved line poles. Making signs for structures. Copying a prototype scene as far as background scenery is concerned. Weathering yards. Detailing sidewalks. Using mirrors. Modeling the desert.

7

82

Buildings
Giving depth to printed background structures. Modeling with photo prints. Using photo prints inside buildings. Building flats as background structures. Creating urban scenery.

8

95

Backgrounds and Backdrops
Using mirrors for backgrounds. Build a backdrop collage. Painting your own backdrop. Using smaller-than-modeled scale buildings in the background. Modeling an industry that isn't there.