{"id":2320,"date":"2009-03-22T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2009-03-22T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T20:00:27","slug":"in-progress-%c2%bb-dagobah-diorama-%c2%bb-roots-from-jute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/in-progress-%c2%bb-dagobah-diorama-%c2%bb-roots-from-jute\/","title":{"rendered":"In Progress \u00c2\u00bb Dagobah Diorama \u00c2\u00bb Roots from Jute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hooray! It’s working as I hoped it would! What is working you may or may not ask? The jute twine I used for the smallest dangling roots is what. In all of the images I have seen, the larger roots are covered in a lot of small vine-type roots and whatnot which really adds to the distinctiveness of Dagobah’s scenery. I wasn’t sure if the Jute Twine would work or not however and I really didn’t want to use natural materials that could rot\/break in time. I use Jute for grass from time to time and am used to coloring and working with it… my concern was if I could get it to pull apart in long enough strands and blend into the trees convincingly. After taking my photos and checking them against the referenes (with the help of a little photoshop coloring) you can see I’m pretty close. Whew!<\/p>\n

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You can find a tutorial on using Jute Twine for making grass<\/a> here on my blog. For the roots I colored the Jute with a very dark black-brown mixture then a slightly lighter version of that for some variety. I also didn’t need to brush it. Just twisting and teasing it out worked great.<\/p>\n

After I finish adding the jute roots and cleaning up some cracks on the groundwork I filled with modeling paste I’ll put down a fine mix of crushed up leaves over the ground then maybe pour some muddy resin water.<\/p>\n\n\t\t