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I'm almost done with this hill landscaping I'm doing. It's for my first
chapter, and (due to my lack of pieces in any color, especially green) is only
3.3 studs high and approx. 32x32 in the widest places.
Has anyone done this before, and can give some tips I can draw upon to my 'lil
hill? (It's actually only a hilltop (1), but whatever)...
Because I don't have enough plates, I'm using as much vegetation as possible
without causing ridicule, in order to hide cracks, etc. LMK if you have other
suggestions.
TIA,
Shiri
(1) That's the name of the school I went to 'till 2nd grade ;)
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In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> I'm almost done with this hill landscaping I'm doing. It's for my first
> chapter, and (due to my lack of pieces in any color, especially green) is only
> 3.3 studs high and approx. 32x32 in the widest places.
>
> Has anyone done this before, and can give some tips I can draw upon to my 'lil
> hill? (It's actually only a hilltop (1), but whatever)...
>
> Because I don't have enough plates, I'm using as much vegetation as possible
> without causing ridicule, in order to hide cracks, etc. LMK if you have other
> suggestions.
(some of/most of these you've probably already figured out, but it doesn't hurt
to mention them)
Vary your elevations. Don't have the top of the hill right in the middle, and
don't have the sides symmetrical.
Mix colors. If your selection of green & brown is as limiting as mine, use
some black and grey here and there. Gives it a stony, highlands sort of look.
Use those non-hill colors(like red and blue and white)to build up the base, and
make your hill higher. If it's not going to be visible once the model's
complete, it doesn't matter what color it is.
Putting trees on top, bushes mid-way down, and shorter vegatation on the ground
will make it appear more hill-like that it actually is.
Using the "leaves" from the various (dark)forest(man) sets straight on the
ground is a great way of breaking up flat terrain and making things look more
natural. (they also make cool ivy creeping up a castle wall)
If you're short on plates, don't use them as shorter bricks, consider using
them attached to hinges or the like to "simulate" slopes. This can help
conserve your bricks and let you build it higher, too.
Build a baseplate into the top. It can be a little tricky, but it saves a
whole lot of bricks, because you can make the center hollow.
Hope that helps!
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
(ps: you can see some of these tricks on these models (first two mine, last a
friend of mine's):
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/mm1.jpg
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/mm2.jpg
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/water.jpg
These use more of a rocky/BURP sort of style, but you can see where some of the
things I mentioned above got learned, sometimes the hard way. ;)
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James Brown wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> > I'm almost done with this hill landscaping I'm doing. It's for my first
> > chapter, and (due to my lack of pieces in any color, especially green) is only
> > 3.3 studs high and approx. 32x32 in the widest places.
> >
> > Has anyone done this before, and can give some tips I can draw upon to my 'lil
> > hill? (It's actually only a hilltop (1), but whatever)...
>
>
> (some of/most of these you've probably already figured out, but it doesn't hurt
> to mention them)
<SNIP>
> Use those non-hill colors(like red and blue and white)to build up the base, and
> make your hill higher. If it's not going to be visible once the model's
> complete, it doesn't matter what color it is.
Of course, depending on their availabilty and the amount of time you want to take
to ue them, you might foind a younger child Duplos A) can increase heigh quickly,
and B) haev a realtively large number of green bricks. It is probably not worth
buying them new, but if you find them at agarage sale or clearanced....
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Thanks for the mention Pawel.
For a more complete scenery picture look here,
http://www.pnltc.org/WWF0999/MountainScene/Gal_SEA_WWF_0999_mountain_scene.html
yes, I know it's trains but I'm trying to do the same idea for my castle layout now.
The structural support is made out of Duplo and basic brick and plate then covered in
BURPs and gray, brown, and green brick and plate. If your limited in quantity I
think the same idea can be accomplished on a smaller scale.
Tom
Pawel Nazarewicz wrote:
> > Has anyone done this before, and can give some tips I can draw upon to my 'lil
> > hill? (It's actually only a hilltop (1), but whatever)...
> >
> > Because I don't have enough plates, I'm using as much vegetation as possible
> > without causing ridicule, in order to hide cracks, etc. LMK if you have other
> > suggestions.
>
> Well ... There are a few apporoaches here.
>
> Check out Thomas Refert's work:
>
> http://home1.gte.net/trafert1/Legopage/Trains/Scenery&Bridges/Scenery&Bridges.htm
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=159
>
> And Jeff Huit simply used baseplates to get hills ... like this:
>
> http://www.huit.net/page4.htm
>
> Of course if you have limited resources, the second approach is the
> preferred one;)
>
> -- pn
--
Thomas's & Kristin's Home Page
http://home1.gte.net/trafert1/
PNLTC Member
http://www.pnltc.org/
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In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> I'm almost done with this hill landscaping I'm doing. It's for my first
> chapter, and (due to my lack of pieces in any color, especially green) is only
> 3.3 studs high and approx. 32x32 in the widest places.
>
> Has anyone done this before, and can give some tips I can draw upon to my 'lil
> hill? (It's actually only a hilltop (1), but whatever)...
>
> Because I don't have enough plates, I'm using as much vegetation as possible
> without causing ridicule, in order to hide cracks, etc. LMK if you have other
> suggestions.
>
> TIA,
> Shiri
>
> (1) That's the name of the school I went to 'till 2nd grade ;)
Shiri,
I have actually done quite a bit creating hill's. Unfortunately most are a lot
bigger than what you are doing. Strangly enough the only hill landscape I ever
posted was for my Star Wars Rebel Base which was built into a hill side.
http://www.nelug.org/mfpics/eksw1.jpg
http://www.nelug.org/mfpics/mmsw3.jpg
For those that are relatively new to LUGNET these are pictures of the NELUG
set-up at Mindfest last Fall. I did the base, Dave Eaton did one AT-AT, and
Shaun Sullivan did the other AT-AT and the AT-ST. The rest was a combined
effort. Just giving credit where credit is due.
Anyway for these hills/mountains on either side of the base entrance I mostly
used BURP's and Gray Bricks. The interior is/was hollow with the exception of
a few supports. You wouldn't want to lean on it to hard but I think it came
out pretty good. I have actually collected a lot more BURP's since this
picture was taken and at some point in the future I plan on using this same
technique to build a mountain for my Castle World stuff.
I think if you have a few BURP's and some Bricks or Folliage to fill in the
gaps you could do something pretty impressive for Castle World. I know Jeff
Johnstone mentioned he is going to do things mostly like setting up sets for a
movie or a play. In that case only what you see has too look good. If you
have large gaps that are hidden with scenery or something else I don't think it
really matters.
Let us know how things are comming.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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