How to Model Cattails
Cattails or bulrushes are found along the edge of many waterways. They are easy to model from scratch and adding the flower heads makes a huge difference.
We’ve already looked at modelling reeds (you can see that here) but now we are looking at modelling the flowering stem – the bulrush or cattail. These start off brown and quite compact and as they ripen they become paler and fluffy before eventually shedding their seeds on the wind. I’ve chosen to model the brown firm stage as it is the first image that springs to mind when I think of cattails.
The Real World
The Final Result
This is what my bulrushes look like in my existing reed bed:
Index
00:08 The Real World
00:28 Method
09:03 Final Result
09:33 Mini Kathys
11:49 Close
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I’ve done this with White Out
Is that Typex? I guess we’d call it correction fluid. I wonder that you can still buy it as typewriters must be quite rare now but I certainly used to use it a lot.