1/350 scale seagulls lol

[sargentx]

Just a detail shot from my nearly complete diorama of the Heian Maru. Still a handful of things to do on it, but couldn't resist posting a snap of the strange little mini-world this build has become.

[Cliffy B]

Please tell me you have step by step photos of this somewhere???!!!

[sargentx]

I don't unfortunately. It went something like this:

The cliffs are made from layered tree bark which I find to be an amazing cliff analogue for 1/350. I glue those down onto my wooden base. I then poured thick plaster of paris in a sloping mound for the beach. When that was dry, I made my sea out of sawdust and CA glue like I describe in my water article. The texture was blended up into the plaster as a transition. I then painted everything white to seal it in and then painted it with acrylic colours. The colour blend from the sea to the beach is just a paint blend rather than some kind of epoxy thing. Waves=cotton batting Birds=cut out from paper and mounted with black sprue to the cliff ....I think that's about it.
The big rock in the water is a hunk of gnarly wood. It's amazing how rock-like wood can look at 1/350.
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[KevinYoung]

Too cool.