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Have some fun with your models and graphics editor: Greeting fellows modelers, I have been practicing with the niftiest little program you can imagine. It's called Terragen and it is a terrain generator that you can download for free. The link to the Terragen download (2.7 MB in /zip format) is
http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/download.shtml. This little program has provided all of the backgrounds that you see in the images presented in this gallery. The models were cut and saved in Adobe Photoshop, but JASC Paint Shop Pro, Corel Photo-Paint or any other similar editor will work. The Terragen image is brought up and the cutout models were resized to fit the terrain. Terragen allows you to set the angle of the sun to match your photos, you can set the water texture, cloud layer, atmosphere, sub layers, editing sublayers to change colors of one's choice. Believe me, there a lot wrapped in this neat program. If you should wish to download Terragen and want to have a go, I highly suggest you go to Carol Brooksbank's Terragen Tutorial at
http://www.soft.net.uk/brooksbank/terratut/. I would advise saving all the tutorials for offline viewing, with exception of those on animation, a feature provided only in the registered version. All finished images are rendered and enhanced in Photoshop 6.0.
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Heller's 1/72 Polikarpov I-153, I cutout two masks, each a different
size, and renumbered one model. The Terragen terrain was sculptures
by hand and has four sub layers on top of a snow and rock base. |
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is the ProModeler 1/48 Curtiss SB2C-4E cut in Photoshop. The terrain is
again sculptured by hand in Terragen and four sub layers added to a base
layer of grass. |
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| MPM's
1/72 Grumman XF5F-1 is feature here against a Terragen background.
The base color was grass with a heavy layering on steep slopes of rock. |
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still my favorite, the lighting and everything just seem to strike a
note. Hobbycraft's 1/48 De Havilland Vampire F Mk I is featured in the
low sun of winter over Scotland. The Terragen terrain has a base layer
of snow and rock with two sub layers of deep brown (almost black) and
lighter rock. |
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Hasegawa kits, the 1/72 Grumman FM-1"Wildcat" and TBM-1
"Avenger", occupy a very simple Terragen terrain that feature
nothing but ocean and sky. Terragen even allows one set the roughness and
turbulence of the water as well as the water colors. |
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1/72 Arado Ar-234 C8 flies low on a recon run during the early months of
1945 over the advancing Allied troops. This was an early Terragen
terrain for me and is very simple. |
Well, hope you enjoyed the show
and maybe will be encouraged to check out Terragen and your own creative
natures. I'm still learning, but I having more fun than a barrel of Mon-keys.
Caz Dalton
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