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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Halo Diorama – How to Photograph a Diorama This video looks at a basic set up to photograph a diorama indoors. The easiest thing to do is to take a diorama outside to a location with a great suitable backdrop but that’s not always possible. If you need to take a photo inside then this …
Halo Diorama – Jungle Plants In the final week of our Halo diorama, we look at how we add that final layer of vegetation. Much of what I am using is from the Brother Scanncut videos. You can find them here: My Halo diorama is very large scale, around 1/9, so it’s hard to find …
Halo Diorama – Lichen and Moss Lichen and moss is in most forests and jungles. It’s often overlooked and easy to model and add an extra layer of detail to a scene. This video covers techniques which should work in any scale. if you are working in N or HO then paint is normally enough …
Halo Diorama – Ground In the next instalment of the Halo diorama we’re on to the ground. It’s easy enough to add a base, use two or three products and then paint it to get a realistic jungle floor. The only thing to note in a jungle floor is that it is made up of …
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 to nail and I often …
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 as much fun! The “Real” …
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 creepers hanging down from trees …
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 would dwarf him. I went …
So how did I get into Halo? I am (as I write this) a 44 year old woman – so how did I get into playing Halo last year and why do I love it so much? Simply put, Halo has its own universe with characters and plot and it drags you in. The main …