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I wanted some 28mm roses, but it was not easy to find any (Anvil Industries have some in one of their kits (https://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/burning-rose-accessories) and I am always happy to recommend Anvil, but I wanted my own.

I think the photos are generally fairly self-explanatory, so I will keep my commentary notes to a minimum.


Remember to use water to stop anything sticking to your surface!

I used a bit of rod to roll this out, but a round pen would do the job

I used a sharp knife to peel my green stuff from the surface, then wrapped it carefully around the very thin (0.5mm?) plastic.

I used a sharp knife to make some petal shapes.

SLIGHTLY more green stuff for the next ball.




This is just the spare bits of green stuff from the triangles I cut out, used to give a bit of body to the rose.


I then wrapped the slightly bigger bit with triangles cut out all of the way around, and again used the knife to cut slightly o make petal shapes and tease out the tips of some petals.




I think this would be a very open rose, like a Eustacia Vye...


However, part of me does feel that particular rose is slightly over the top, with too many petals for tabletop miniatures.

I therefore did the same thing again with about half as much greenstuff. I kept the same width of greenstuff, and flattened it out far more, but used shorter bits, each therefore wrapped around fewer times...




And I feel this would probably look better at 28mm scale.

This, perhaps, is more like a Wildfire;



Both pics from https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/shop-online a store who I would thoroughly recommend for their quality of service and wonderful roses.

Nice simple tutorial Fifty.

Cheers,

CB

Yes, good tutorial! It's always interesting to see how people do things, and yours turned out really nice. I like the second one particularly.