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- 15 Mar 2011
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Many thanks everyone.
Dave phoned this afternoon. We had crossed wires about sending me the pic, was my fault. He mentioned designing the whole thing with suggested plants sending me a pic, or if I want, he could send the hardscape out now. There was confusion over that part which is why I wrongly thought he was sending me a pic.
Anyway, he sent me a couple of pics of another scape and talked me through them, these didn't use dragon stone, but the general idea of what he was thinking for the dragon stone was the same. Won't post pic here as it was a scape he did for a customer, basically starting with the biggest rock left front, building a wall.
This is a quick top down drawing showing the red line going through the middle of the rocks where he suggests I aim to build a dragon stone wall.
The pics he sent were using rock that could be placed almost any way around, getting the cracks to go in the same direction so it looked natural, but it meant you could have the rocks at different angles and they matched well.
I'm finding doing similar with the dragon stone to be hard as due to the nature of the stone, the rocks have to go the same way, else they stand out a mile, but I'm doing better than I was before.
I've had a good play for a few hours, am happyish with the left hand side, but not at all with the right.
I'm going to keep at this attempt tomorrow, to see if I can get the right hand looking good, if I fail, I might try to do something similar but with vertical rocks.
Here's a few pics of it so far, comments welcomed
front view
top view
side view
Note that there will be no lava rock past the red line in my bad drawing, only using so much at the moment so I can get my slope etc right while playing.
Can't recommend Aquarium Gardens enough, Dave has told me that if I have problems, get stuck etc to give him a call straight away. That's what I call service .
Dave phoned this afternoon. We had crossed wires about sending me the pic, was my fault. He mentioned designing the whole thing with suggested plants sending me a pic, or if I want, he could send the hardscape out now. There was confusion over that part which is why I wrongly thought he was sending me a pic.
Anyway, he sent me a couple of pics of another scape and talked me through them, these didn't use dragon stone, but the general idea of what he was thinking for the dragon stone was the same. Won't post pic here as it was a scape he did for a customer, basically starting with the biggest rock left front, building a wall.
This is a quick top down drawing showing the red line going through the middle of the rocks where he suggests I aim to build a dragon stone wall.
The pics he sent were using rock that could be placed almost any way around, getting the cracks to go in the same direction so it looked natural, but it meant you could have the rocks at different angles and they matched well.
I'm finding doing similar with the dragon stone to be hard as due to the nature of the stone, the rocks have to go the same way, else they stand out a mile, but I'm doing better than I was before.
I've had a good play for a few hours, am happyish with the left hand side, but not at all with the right.
I'm going to keep at this attempt tomorrow, to see if I can get the right hand looking good, if I fail, I might try to do something similar but with vertical rocks.
Here's a few pics of it so far, comments welcomed
front view
top view
side view
Note that there will be no lava rock past the red line in my bad drawing, only using so much at the moment so I can get my slope etc right while playing.
Can't recommend Aquarium Gardens enough, Dave has told me that if I have problems, get stuck etc to give him a call straight away. That's what I call service .