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Things are really stacking up!Really shaping up nicely! <<<Yep I said it!
God built the world in 6 days my ass! I am just building a tiny little spec of it and I call bullshit
Thank you. It will look a lot better once I get the top layers done. All the cool stuff is at the top (except the stream)
Well, if you were a REAL god, instead of a demigod...God built the world in 6 days my ass! I am just building a tiny little spec of it and I call bullshit
It comes together, it comes apart, it comes back together, it comes back apart. My anal retentive nature has me fitting, test fitting, etc. If I would have just bought triple the foam the second table would have been roughed in by now. But currently back to layer 8 again removing excess foam. Little preview of an upper layer item. It's a Utah thangYou guys need to get some churchin' up in ya
That diorama is really starting to come together Kev. I'm already picturing different finished images in my head... I can see in to the future!
Not trying to tell you how to build it because you are doing an awesome job but a suggestion only, I personally wouldn't put too much thought into the exact lines you want to run because you may become pretty bored with it. Basically I would try to create as many different lines as possible but more of a natural setting instead of a planned setting if that makes sense. A good example would be, "and just an example" , if I wanted a rock bed of some sort on a hill, I would grab a hand full of pebbles, close my eyes, and where they drop is where they will stay. Kind of a natural thing. Toss a hand full of tree with your eyes closed, where ever they land is where I would plant them. I just think it would create more of a thought process when you are actually crawling and not knowing exactly where to drive before you even start.This is the biggest diorama I have ever built, and usually I just built them up to fit the image in my head. This one takes a lot of planning to try to get interesting crawling lines in the small space, and it's making it pretty challenging. It may be fun and tricky in spots or it may be too easy and boring. Either way it's gonna look cool. Even Demigods have standards
@Doom! - these are badass. Been using them all day and they are kicking butt.
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Not trying to tell you how to build it because you are doing an awesome job but a suggestion only, I personally wouldn't put too much thought into the exact lines you want to run because you may become pretty bored with it. Basically I would try to create as many different lines as possible but more of a natural setting instead of a planned setting if that makes sense. A good example would be, "and just an example" , if I wanted a rock bed of some sort on a hill, I would grab a hand full of pebbles, close my eyes, and where they drop is where they will stay. Kind of a natural thing. Toss a hand full of tree with your eyes closed, where ever they land is where I would plant them. I just think it would create more of a thought process when you are actually crawling and not knowing exactly where to drive before you even start.
It's looking awesome. I just hate to see you get bored with it is all. Please don't take this as being a know-it-all, I just thought it would make it a bit more challenging is all.
Breydon comes back this Friday. It has been nearly a month now since I had him here because of the Labor Day weekend being hers this year
In hindsight, I should have negotiated never more than 3 weeks without seeing him, because it is so rough even going the normal two weeks. This project and others takes my mind off of it though. I will let him crawl the trucks around on it this weekend and see what he thinks.
I did searches for Moab and Sedona and found lots of cool references when I was looking. I love the color striations in the settings. here are a couple more you might like.
Love those! The most beautiful scenery on the planet in my opinion. When I was in Colorado and went through the Garden of the Gods, there was this kinda boring area that led around the back of a big gray rock formation like 60' tall (memory fading). It was like a natural garden with these small weeds and flowers. They were all subdued colors, with lots of pale greens and pastel blues, purples, and pinks. My wife was like meh, because it just looked like a weedy field, but I was in awe because the colors were so different than the bright wildflowers we had back home. Then there were the Kissing Camels feature atop one of the formations. What was really cool was there were two separate formations of completely different stone right next to each othet. One red, one gray. It made me think I wish I were a Geologist instead of a Machinist. Nature is just so awesome out west.@ wicked, you have almost exactly the same reference photos I've been looking at.
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Yeah, and I live in freakin INDIANA! Part of my Dad's family moved to Colorado when I was just a kid. They weren't ever considered the smartest branch of the family, but I think they were geniuses.
It's very cool you have that relationship with your son, take advantage of it as much as you can because they grow up so fast...Breydon comes back this Friday. It has been nearly a month now since I had him here because of the Labor Day weekend being hers this year
And thank you
Very true. We traveled through the midwest a lot when I was a kid. The only thing I remember about going through the Smokey Mountains as a kid was everyone got sick except me. As an adult, I just love driving through and seeing the mountains.
