How to Make Diorama Terrain: Part 5 Painting the Rocks

[cole19981]

the reason why i would make a diorama would be to green screen me and make a little stop motion film with minutures and have like a sword fight or make a 300 diorama and make a remake of the 300 battle with me green screened into it with a stop animation film

[epicfantasy]

@cole19981 cool!

[jmk3438]

what do you think about woodland secenics sculptamold for filling seems and gaps?

[epicfantasy]

@jmk3438 I have never used the sculptamold. but I bet it works pretty good. I do use a lot of other woodland scenics stuff.

[jmk3438]

its pretty good stuff, like a paste, great for building on scenery, gaps, etc.... i used to do ho scale layouts and many hobbysist put flex paste or glue in the mold to have a stronger bond...there is some talk that not putting glue in the mix, overtime the mold may crack.

Also for gluing wood or building wood modles..."LIQUID NAILS" (THE SMALL TUBE) IS THE BEST THAT I KNOW OF...

[epicfantasy]

@jmk3438 thanks for the help, and great tip on Liquid Nails.

[TheSeasonman1]

ad colour to the casting matterial i.e water to pre colour the cast when dry it makes it easier to paint afterwards . poster paints work well for this. thanks for the video great help .

[epicfantasy]

@TheSeasonman1 Thanks, this is a great tip!

[dragonguy38]

touch it in diffrent spots hahah but thanks videos very helpful

[rastan1977]

Amazing vids mate,you have put me straight back in the mood to start up again.Check my stuff out if you wish,feedback would be very encouraging. 1 thing though.What is the purpose of a diarama,i thought maybe it was designed to display minitures. I will give this a try though.Exellent work my freind.

[cole19981]

@rastan1977

the reason why i would make a diorama would be to green screen me and make a little stop motion film with minutures and have like a sword fight or make a 300 diorama and make a remake of the 300 battle with me green screened into it with a stop animation film

[rastan1977]

@cole19981 That sounds good.How could i get into greenscreen.Will it cost alot?

[cole19981]

@rastan1977

it depends if you have a software that will key out greenscreen...if you have that nad a green screen it should be free a good software that takes green screen and does other cool effects is called adobe premiere elements or adobe after effects. both great software but cost quite a bit of money

[cole19981]

@rastan1977

once you have all of that there are a bunch of toturials onthe stuff all over youtube

have fun!!!!

[rastan1977]

Amazing vids mate,you have put me straight back in the mood to start up again.Check my stuff out if you wish,feedback would be very encouraging. 1 thing though.What is the purpose of a diarama,i thought maybe it was designed to display minitures. I will give this a try though.Exellent work my freind.

[MrCODMODERNWAR]

nice but my fave way to paint rocks is base them with a grey not too light or dark then apply a black wash of very watered down black do darken the recess and add shading then drybrush with a lighter grey then an extreme drybrush of an even lighter grey to show weathering

[epicfantasy]

Excellent! If you have any pics of this process I would love to post them to my website. People would definitely learn from this.

[MrCODMODERNWAR]

where can i get hydro cal

[epicfantasy]

Amazon has it.

[MrCODMODERNWAR]

also i will post these videos when i get my paints again because i ran out a while ago

[wolt96]

what is hydro cal??

[apdaoud]

can you plz uploud the next part your vids are so good they help me alot tnx

[epicfantasy]

Thanks for watching my diorama vids! I have 22 Diorama making vids. Check my playlists!

[crazylegoproductions]

how long would it take hydrocal to dry on a diorama the size of yours?

[epicfantasy]

A few hours. I let it sit overnight.

[95predator]

hey why don't you take a little chisel and makethe stone structures yourself???

[epicfantasy]

This video is down. I have re-uploaded it. The new video number is: rsDN6xZvfQ4

Or you can find it in my playlists under diorama.

[RexKwonDoe4U]

its working just fine from here

[epicfantasy]

Thanks, I guess its back up for some reason. I think it was a youtube glitch.

[ziljin]

The video is down? Any chance of reuploading it?

[epicfantasy]

I am not sure why this video is down. If it stays down I will find the original and re-upload it. - Will

[epicfantasy]

I re uploaded it. The new video number is:

rsDN6xZvfQ4

or you can find it in my playlists.

[northean]

ok thank you very much!

[northean]

i have a question, If a took a rock from out side and say covered it with something and then put paper mache over it would i get the same rock affect?

[epicfantasy]

no, if you covered it in paper mache you would lose the nice rocky detail. You might try painting a rock with a clear coat finish. That might work well. Just pick interesting rocks! The hard thing about using rocks from outdoors is they don't often look like the right scale. In a diorama a rock needs to look proper to scale. it needs to often be a few inches in size yet look a hundred feet as compared to the diorama.

[07blkCobalt]

Not enough jaged edge's to simulate over head view of the area?

[ozzycriss]

Thanx exellent stuff

[cuahtblanco]

Do you have an email so I can email you the project Im trying to do. I could send you pictures and you could give me some suggestions on how to make such Diorama. Id appreciate it

Thanks

[cuahtblanco]

Hey I'm trying to make a diorama but way more rockier then that where did you get that material or how did you make that rock structure

[epicfantasy]

I cast plaster rocks using molds and hydrocal. Full tutorials on my site and all the stuff available at amazon. tutorial Part 4 shows the whole process.

[epicfantasy]

thankyou :)

[Chienqfume]

Congratulations, my friend. I am going to your site. Hugs from Brazil.

[batman6354]

I think that a 300 Diorama will be cool. It may take a long time, but it will still be very cool. I think you should do it.=)If you make it put it on your webpage.

[epicfantasy]

You are welcome! and thanks for watching. I have been thinking about doing a big 300 diorama. What do you think?

Should I? probably 100 hours of work though.

[rfeil]

Really interesting and useful. Thanks!