Behind the scenery, Native Village

 Welcome to another behind the scenery, it's another shoebox set, that will be a native village.

Now before I go any further I want to point out that I've not done any art painting since I was in school and as you can see from the picture below it shows 😂

Back drops make a big difference & are something I'm going to have to up my game on, but back to what I'm trying to do here. 

The picture below looks a bit better but still a long way off what I want. 

By now I was getting a feel for what I was trying to do, with the picture below more like what I was looking for. As you can see below it's given the appearance that it a village in a clearance.

I now got rid of the sheet of paper I'd used in the above pictures for a backdrop & instead painted the back & part of the two sides of the box, as seen in the picture below.

Below is a picture of the box with the painting done, I'm not sure yet if I'll need to lighting it up a bit, as I think it is given more of a night time feel, anyway a little tip for you, fit your ground piece before painting.

I don't feel that the bottom of the box is strong enough to just use so I'm putting in some form to strengthen, but you could use other stuff. 

With the form dry fitted I used some no more nails to stick it with.

I also put some on the edges of the form to stick it to 3 of the sides of the box, hence why you should do this before painting, & as I was using 2 pieces I stuck some skewers to help make the joint stronger. I should add that in the pictures above I was just using a piece of grass covered paper just to get the feel for what I was doing.  For the huts I use Coconut shells that I picked up in a petshop a while back & added a few little details.

 

After given the form a dark brown paint I then textured it with different sands & gravel, using finer stuff for what will be the clearing & pathway leading off into the jungle. 

Next I done some flocking, these areas will be what I hope when I add the foliage will help blend the whole thing together. 

So with the foliage done how did it all turn out ? Well I'll let you guys be the judge of that.

A fun little build & cheap to do, so even if it was never used the value in hobby time to cost makes this well worth it. But hopefully you guys will be seen it in an up coming production 😊

That's it for this post, as always my thanks for dropping in & if you'd care to leave a comment, it would be welcomed.