EXPERT MODELLERS SHOW YOU HOW
HOW TO CREATE A LIGHTWEIGHT ROCKFACE
Making realistic rockfaces can be a messy business. Peter Marriott demonstrates how a new paper-based product affords outcrops to be made quickly, easily and cleanly.
PHOTOGRAPHY: PETER MARRIOTT
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Do not smother a piece of Wrinkle Rocks with glue before attaching it to the landscape as it will lose its 3D effect. Instead, attach the pieces lightly to the landscape with dabs of glue in just a few places, allowing the material to ‘float’ on the landscape.
It’s a fair bet that most of us have used ‘brick papers’ at some point on our modelling journeys. It might be easy to be sniffy about these two-dimensional materials, when readily available textured plastic card (for instance) provides lifelike relief, but a certain level of skill is needed to get effective results. Indeed, contemporary use of high-quality photographs now enables a highly realistic finish (eg old stock brick), even if the sense of depth is superficial.