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Vietnam Plants and Trees Help
chip250
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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 11:46 AM UTC
Could anyone please tell me where or how I can make some trees an vegitation familiar to Vietnam?

I want to start my Super Jolly Rescue Diorama, but am a little stumped on the plants.

Thanks!

-Chip
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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 02:12 PM UTC
Hey chip250 try reading this post. https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/7058&page=1
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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 02:15 PM UTC
Here is another post of mine https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/9160&page=1
I made the palm trunk by taking a 3/8 wood dowl pin I than took masking tape and wrapped from the bottom up make a few wraps let the wraps get smaller as you get toward the top. than take youre exacto knife and cut around the trunk skip a section than cut another etc. if the tape wrinkles thats fine in fact try to make it wrinkle it looks more like bark.
slodder
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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 03:16 PM UTC
I used baking clay (clay you cure in the oven). I rolled it out into a snake and cut it to length. I then rolled one end a bit smaller more conical. I then created a hole in the small end for the leaves. I used a dental pick and etched in horizonal bands for the sections of the tree and some vertical etches just for detail.

I used aluminum foil for the leaves cutting it to shape. I used hobby wire as the main vein of the leaves and left about .3 of an inch at the stem end. I glued the wire to the foil with CA. I then bent the wire and inserted it into the hole in the trunk. Depending on the tree I put
four or five leaves bows in.

Color was brown and shades of brown for the trunks and Deep Green and shades of green for the leaves.
blaster76
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Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 06:40 PM UTC
You can use regular trees as well. Not everything was a Palm make sure you use dense ground foliage too
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