Photo of the Week – City Canyons I Hong Kong is a city of tall skyscrapers, busy streets and a multitude of people living at every level in between. Every inch of space seems to be used with the ever familiar air conditioners plastering the sides of the older tower…
Halo Diorama – Painting Trees We’ve got the basics together with the trees and creepers which are the basic structure but now we need to paint them. I started off with a brown but changed to grey after I’d lived with it for a while. Tree colours are so hard…
Photo of the Week – Dark Alley There’s so much character to back alleys, the bits that we normally hide away behind our pretty facades. It’s where people throw their junk, put up their utilities and it’s where graffiti artists sneak in to practice their art. Normally avoided, they are…
Halo Diorama – Jungle Creepers Following on from last week’s vines, here’s a different method to model jungle creepers. It’s as simple as last week but works well in all scales for those creepers that grow up and cling to trees. It’s as messy as the last method and just…
Photo of the Week – City Nights Triptych This photo is made up of three roads at night in Hong Kong. The sky scrapers, neon and Chinese symbols give it a distinctive air but it could be one of so many Asian cities… It’s certainly buzzing with activity with traffic…
Halo Diorama – Jungle Vines I This week’s video is the start of a couple of weeks on jungle vines or creepers. Basically there is a lot of glue and string involved but it’s real fun and could easily be adapted for any scale. The Halo jungle is full of…
Photo of the Week – City Nights I Cities take on a different persona by night with some becoming scary, cold, dangerous places and others being bright, glittery and welcoming. Hong Kong falls into the latter category as the neon turns on and it starts to shimmer with multi colours.…
Halo Diorama – Celluclay Tree Having built up my 11″ high Master Chief by Sprukits, I needed to find him a home. I also fancied doing a jungle diorama as it’s completely different to everything else that I model. As he’s so high, I felt I needed a scene that…
Photo of the Week – Urban Inspiration – Hong Kong III This is an iPhone panorama and it sums up a typical street scene in Hong Kong. I spent a lot of time wandering around looking for the Jade Market. The map was a little vague! I did walk up…
I’ve recently been experimenting with using the Brother Scanncut machine to cut out leaves. These are quite small and normal paper tears easily. I tried pastel paper which worked well as it is thin and strong but it has bumps. I tried the Luke Towan method with sticky back plastic…
