Starting Scenery: Wonderful Water I love modelling water but it seems to scare some people – I guess I have had my fair share of resin leaks so I am used to it. In the latest instalment of the Starting Scenery course, I look at many of the ways you can add water to your …
How to Model Ultra Realistic Roads In this video, I show you how to make model roads using plaster and paint. It is very easy to come up with realistic results with just a few simple steps. I have struggled with plaster roads in the past as I have never managed to get the plaster …
Starting Scenery: Basic Bushes This is the next video in my starting scenery course – bushes. Not quite a tree, definitely not grass but a great middle ground for filling out scenes. Model bushes are perfect in so many situations. I’ve used these techniques quite a bit in the last year and I really like …
Starting Scenery: Tremendous Trees Trees are everywhere and there are so many ways to model them. This is the next video in the Starting Scenery Course and I hope you find this quick snapshot of some of the methods I like useful. Materials The Amazon links are all items I have either bought or bought …
Model a Realistic Rain Diorama I was looking for something a little different and wanted to do a night time scene in the lashing down rain. It’s a little daunting taking a perfectly good diorama and covering it in gloss varnish but the result is worth it! Inspiration The Final Result Materials The Amazon links …
Easy to Make Lightweight Foam Rocks Please support me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/KathyMillatt. I was on a mission to find lightweight, easy to make rocks. These work well for smoother rocks or those in the background but you can use the painting technique on any rock face. Free Model It Yourself Sheet Click this link …
Model a Beach Scene Please support me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/KathyMillatt. It may be wet, cold and windy outside but inside, it’s scorching hot and sunny, on my beach scene at least… This was a nice quick and easy diorama to bring a ray of sunshine in after all that snow… I wanted …
2018 Review of the Year It’s that time of year where you look back at what you have done this year. I must admit, I didn’t think I’d achieved much but maybe I’ve done a little more than I thought! The Great Model Railway Challenge Find out more here. I even got some modelling …
Add Variety to your Scale Model Leaves Adding a variety of textures to a layout can really boost the sense of reality. Changing up your leaves and using scale leaves on your foreground trees can really help achieve this. This is a quick tour of some of the leaves I have at home. Some I …
Halo Diorama – How to add a Background in Photoshop Every time I take a photo of a diorama I think about what’s behind it. Is it a sky, a building or a jungle? Most of the time, if I need a sky, I can take the diorama outside and take a great photo in …
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