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Showing posts with label vegetable. Show all posts

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Potatoes, onions and carrots in 1/18

Expanding the material-scale is never easy, huh? Nowadays I use more metal and fabric than before, and sometimes it's very hard to find the one, that fits best for a specific idea. Still my favourite base for scenes is wood, as it has the most ways to use, and because of the natural look that it gives to an otherwise simple idea.

This time, I was just doing some pretty simple requests. I had a few carrots in front of me, and when I was making the potatoes and onions, I just placed them next to it. When I looked up, I saw this scene, which made me to reach out for my camera!


Let's just say, that a lonely potato is boring. Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't even think in the pieces apart, but I quite not used to complex things nowadays.
The webbed bag is made out of a cheap mosquito-curtain (no way, I have never used this phrase, I'm not even sure if I use it right, haha!), painted with simple, cheapest type of fabric paint. Ironed, washed, ad the manual said- this was the first time I used it, but I will surely use it from now on- must get some more colors very soon!

Well, this just made my day! Otherwise, I'm extremely tired. I had to make a rush, because I'm going out of town for the weekend, and I have to bring some projects with me. I just hope, that I don't have to fit in more programs in the weekend, because I might come home as a chewed, oily rag!


Thursday, January 30, 2014

Garlic strings #2 - Size comparison

This is how the 1/18 garlic strings ended up! It's a "little" smaller then the previous one... I had a hard time gluing these tiny garlics to the raffia braid, when I finished, my hands were just like some rotten zombie's hands, when the skin is peeling off... Yuck!!! Yeah, superglue is 'fun' to use! I had to check around if I can find something for superglue-removal, and found that nail polish remover with acetone works just fine with it - though it took some time to wash it off. I'd better get some tweezers, if I still need the skin on my hand, ha!

The new, 1/18 garlic strings compared to a coin!
The old, unmeasured (approx. 1/8) garlic strings


Thursday, January 2, 2014

Cabbages in 1:18

Well, well, well, I'll be out of photos very soon. Since I still don't have a memory for my camera, I can't show you yesterdays projects, which are some strawberries and cherries.

Now I have some cabbages :) I managed to make some cabbage leaf canes. It took some time to figure out, how it looks the best, as you can see on the first picture. At first I used too much white with the translucent clay, so the veins were too strong, but I figured out, that I only need a tiny chunk, just to give it a color.

Again, I had problems with the leaf. Since I have to make tons of this cabbage, I had to find out an easy technique. It took some time :) I plan to make a vein stamp, so the next cabbages could be much more realistic!

(These are all 1:18!!!)

Evolution of a cabbage!