i need cheap sceanery for a project and i’m only 11 so i’m low on $$$[:)][:)][:D][:D][8D][8D][8D][;)][;)][^][^][banghead][banghead][banghead][bow][bow]
What are you looking for?
Can you let us know what kind of scenery you want to make (Mountains, lake, forest, desert, etc)? There are just so many different ways to do things, so it would help us to know what you need to do.
mountains,trenches,water,craters,and sandbags for my battle sceene
MIxing flour, salt, and water to make a thick paste would work for doing quick diorama scenery contours on a square of plywood.
You could paint it with cheap watercolors.
You can also mix food coloring into the flour mixture to make it some color, like dirty brown for sandbags. You could roll the flour into a strip, press it flat, then cut it to length to get sandbags, then stack them.
You could find some old rope or an old brush, cut some strands from it, and embed them in the flour scenery base while it’s still soft to make clumps of grass.
You can also sprinkle on some real dirt (very fine, almost dust) and some sand or very fine gravel here and there while the flour is still wet to add some realistic texture.
This would not be fancy, but would get you everything but the water.
For water, you could just paint a flat spot bluish, then paint on some gloss medium or water-based varni***o make it shiny (that will cost you some $ though).
Anything more than that will start to cost you more money. You can find Woodland Scenics foliage at a hobby shop for about $4 a bag. This makes great bushes.
You could get yourself some real plaster and tempera paint for $10-$20, and make fancier scenery.
Heya TW800,
Joe’s certainly the man when it comes to scenery. [bow]
Depending upon the era and battle you’re looking to represent foliage might well enough be a foregone conclusion. ie: Gettysburg would require it, some WW2 scenes after a few days fighting would have had it stripped away.
Bare trees would obviously be easily represented with twigs but with a little looking in the forest you can find some that have a bit of moss and individuality about them. Common thinking is to bake anything you bring in from the wild for a spell to kill the bugs and such before use. I’ve also been known in my day to use massive and highly expensive amounts of Lightweight Hydrocal in my scenery offerings. These days I’d rather fill the Lincoln with gas and then just let it running out in front of the house. Head out to Wal-Mart or any other store and get yourself an 8# container of Dap brand Plaster of Paris. Expected cost under $5.00, compared to the cost of its weight in gold H-cal.
See if your folks have a couple of buckets of left over paint in the garage. Browns and greys can be suitable for war ravaged scenery and the P of P can be tinted with them when you’re mixing it up. If anyone you know works in a manufacturing plant or garage there’s a type of oil dry that looks like scale rocks and gravel you could spread around here and there. Stuff I use is all different sizes and a variety of rock-looking colors.
If you have white glue on your list of stuff to get for school a bit of that can be mixed with water to create scenery adhesive. As you work, remember, if it looks like it’s been through a war, you’ve done your job. [8D]
Good luck with your project.
Dave (dwRavenstar)
Judging by his layout, site and posts, Joe’s the man when it comes to anything MR related.