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How to build micro landscape structure with wood and rock for terrarium

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Updated: 4 days ago


if you review the DIY tutorial of terrarium building, soo you will find that one of the most important thing is buildig the structure first. Terrarium structure in most cases if made of natural rock and wood. For some large terrarium, expansion foams are used. But for small one, natural rock and wood is always the first choice.


This blog is for sharing how to make a delicate structure with wood and rock. Of course if you have a unique beautiful wood, nothing you need to do with it. Here are some of the work I made this week (they are availabe on NCYP website). I am going to make more, more complicated ones next week.


I am writing this blog for I am going to build new terrarium projects and focusing on the beautity of rock and wood. The joints will not be covered by soil or covered by plants. Thus I can not just glue them with small wood chips.


This is an unfinished posts. The tutorial video will be released next week and I owe a detailed explanation here. I will come back and continue editing it a week later when I am back to office.


Here is one of the video tutorial:



The key point is choosing suitable wood and rock. The powder in the video is matching rock powder.













This is a natural wood which needs nothing to do with.



If you can glue wood together, you can glue something else on a piece of wood, like an artificial glass eye.



Here are totorial:




To be continued.

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