Month: March 2023

Objectives

• Create a realistic model of a rainforest

Process

• Cut base from 3mm plywood with jigsaw
• Built terrain with spackle
• Glued dirt to base, sealed with watered-down glue
• Painted dirt and rock with airbrush
• Built trees from wire and clay
  • Added texture to trunk with resin sand medium
  • Painted trunk with airbrush
  • Glued leaves cut from cardstock and then painted green
• Built smaller plants from cardstock and wire
  • Painted with airbrush, then glued to base
• Decorated clearing in the middle
  • Added static grass in the center
  • Made flowers from cut, painted construction paper
• Added extra foliage with moss and static grass
• Made a monkey from wire and clay, and parrots from cardstock

Conclusions

• I am very pleased with how the scenery looks
• Using paper to make the plants worked very well