Director Max Rolf is over at the props department meeting with the head of the props team Bill Smith to see how the work is progressing for the coming dress rehearsals for Congo & we've set the camera crew along.
Max"How is the work coming along on the jungle scenery Bill ?"
Bill" The latest delivery is just arriving now Max so the team will be getting cracking on it right away"
Max" I'm please to hear that as we need to starting getting in some dress rehearsals, by the way I've bought a camera craw along do you mind if they film the work in progress Bill?"
Bill" Not at all Max, sounds like an excellent idea"
Bill will talk us through the process, here at N&D Productions we us sheets of cork for our bases, I know other studio's like to go with hardboard but here it cork.
We mark out a rough shape, you got to keep in mind is in nature at work we're try to reproduce not something man made so no straight lines.
When it cut we sand the edges before
painting it green.
Then its gluing & flocking
we always mix in some static grass with the flock, the last think we do is go over it with a spay glue
While part of the team were getting the bases ready others were set to work on the foliage.
Some of the type of things used, from pet-shops & Ikea, tree-bark is used for rocks.
Also of use can be artificial house plants.
The plastic plants are giving awash using different colour washes on different ones,I've herd of other studio's using a spay mat varnish instead of washes.
This is one of the washes used, here at N&D we use three different ones two are brown's & one is yellow.
With both foliage & bases ready it time to start putting them together, first a hole is drilled in the base,
Then the join end is cut off & a dab of pva glue put on the end & stuck in the hole.
the underside of the bark is sanded flat & then its glued to the base.
Little bits of foliage is glued next to the rock in places.
All that's left is a little track to be added.
The piece is finished & ready to be moved to the set.
The set as you can see is nearing completion & that's how we do it here at N&D Productions
That's a rap, a big thanks to Bill for walking us through the process & as always my thanks to you for dropping in & if you'd care to leave a comment it would be welcomed :)
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