Making an AWESOME river diorama PLUS my FIRST ATTEMPT at making pine trees

Get access to my new written tutorial ebook series! Well, this was a fun project! I’d never attempted making pine trees before, but they turned out nicely, I think. I might do things differently next time, though - such as making sure all the static grass needles slope downwards and altering the branches so that they point upwards nearer the top, more like real pine trees. The rest of the diorama was a lot of fun to build. The resin river went down stress-free, and vegetation from Diorama Presepe always makes for an ultra realistic diorama. The waterfall - or rapids - wasn’t something I originally intended to feature, but a flaw in my initial planning resulted in a happy accident and the white water works really nicely with the rest of this realistic scene. I love a model waterfall! Hand-carving model rocks can be a challenge, but there are so many ways to do it and for this diorama I chose to use Sculptamold. I hope you enjoy watching me bring this model river sc