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Title: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: Dune on September 26, 2021, 03:05:29 AM
A new plant I'm making, not completely finished yet. Giant hogweed, beautiful but can inflict terrible skin blisters. Can grow up to 4m high!
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: Stormlord on September 26, 2021, 01:34:13 PM
WOW
The plant looks very good, well done Dune!

STORMLORD
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: sboerner on September 26, 2021, 02:03:12 PM
Yes, this is a plant you definitely don't want to mess with. It is an invasive species here but fortunately very rare. It's smaller cousin, wild parsnip, is more plentiful and just as dangerous.

Cool models.
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: masonspappy on September 26, 2021, 02:58:15 PM
Great model and detail.
Around here (South East US) we've been seeing reports of people who got really messed up after physically contacting hogweed
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: Dune on September 27, 2021, 01:57:17 AM
If you DuckDuckGo (trying to avoid Google) the species, you'll see the terrible blisters. No fun indeed. Here's another more elaborate 'test'.
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: Hannes on September 27, 2021, 05:53:05 AM
Stunning!!! Looks fantastic!
There's an old Genesis song named "The return of the giant hogweed". At the time I thought the song is about a giant named "Hogweed". ;D
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: DocCharly65 on September 29, 2021, 02:07:51 AM
That looks so harmonic and beautiful! Like in a fairy tale world.
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: Dune on October 01, 2021, 02:49:37 AM
Until you're touched by the bastards!
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: DocCharly65 on October 01, 2021, 03:22:14 AM
The giant hogweed was voted poisonous plant of the year in 2008. Your best bet is to render protective clothing for your actors :)
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: Dune on October 01, 2021, 04:30:23 AM
:D
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: Dune on October 04, 2021, 01:58:37 AM
I made some new species like field thistle, ragwort, Himalayan balsam, wild carrot, and madder, quickly put together here for testing.
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: DocCharly65 on October 04, 2021, 02:11:37 AM
I don't know how to tell the difference between this and a photo  :o

Great! I love it!
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Post by: Hannes on October 04, 2021, 04:14:12 AM
Absolutely amazing plants, Ulco! Looks unbelievably realistic.
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Post by: Lady of the Lake on October 04, 2021, 10:36:03 AM
OMGosh, this is wonderful.
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: WAS on October 04, 2021, 12:08:07 PM
Oh wow, great work. Yeah we got Heracleum maximum around here or "Cow Parsnip". No fun. Lol

Does field thistle really grow so many flowers? That's crazy! Ours here wild grow a single flower, maybe two extras if it's been accidentally topped by nature and split. They tend to grow in a stalk.
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: Dune on October 05, 2021, 02:29:50 AM
Good point, Jordan. I hesitated what to make, as they don't always bloom fully, and for diversity a lesser blooming version would be good to have. But they do make a lot of flowers (here at least).

I can really recommend Speedtree. The thistle (for one) is completely made in ST. For instance, you can make the seed pods from tubes, and have the little flowerleaves grow on top of that in whatever number you need. The balsam flowers were done in Lightwave and imported as a mesh. When it's all put together in the botanically correct way, you can adjust each element individually to avoid crossing leaves and such. That's the most work, actually.
Title: Re: Heracleum mantegazzianum
Post by: masonspappy on October 11, 2021, 04:54:30 PM
Your plants are top-notch!