 | "Archer in the Rye" |  |
Figure:
from 2273: Derek the Tall
| "Archer in the Rye" | |
his figure is sold as a horse and rider together, but I only wanted the horse. Thus I had a leftover rider I needed to do something with. I repositioned his leg so he was in a running crouch, bent out the arms to a reasonable firing position, and
scratchbuilt an arrow (mechanical pencil lead & index card) and bowstring (human hair). I'd been puzzling for some time how to model tall grass, having
developed a fondness for that environment after working at a prairie preserve. The only ideas I come up with were hugely labour intensive, but I decided I
could test them out on a very small base. The grass you see here was done in small sections over several days, pressing pinches of Woodland Scenics' field
grass into still-wet Sculpt-a-Mold. The seedheads, to me the essential detail, were made by dipping individual grass stalks into glue and then sawdust.
