Hay bales and Millennium Falcon

14/4/2016

It's been nearly two weeks since I last made any updates to the website and my YouTube channel, partly due to work but also my daughter came home with a cold which was passed on to my wife a few days later and then found it's way to me!!

You can get an idea from the photo above, I'm just finishing up a new video showing a very simple yet effective way of making realistic looking hay bales. I just finished filming the build process and now it's just a matter of doing the editing.

And while I was feeling unwell I decided to build a model kit I recently purchased. I'm a total novice when it comes to airbrushing and I plan to do some weathering on my $300 locomotives so I took a chance with this Millennium Falcon. It's the new Bandai 144th scale kit from "The Force Awakens", it's actually quite amazing at how much detail this thing has at such a small scale.

It shouldn't be too much longer before the "Hay Bale" video is finalized and posted, it will be quite a short video, it's probably the easiest tutorial I've done so far and for the end result its quite amazing that such a simple method gives such an amazing final product!

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Future plans:

In the upcoming months I'll be working on a new eBook about getting the most from static grass.
It's only a short 30 page eBook but it will be packed full of tips on using a static grass applicator to get the most out of you scenery!
Once complete this book will be available to purchase or if you become a patron it will be available to read depending on your level of support.
In the mean time, if you want to learn how to build your own static grass applicator and make home made static grass tufts you can check out the tutorial here:

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