Rosemary, the head groom, and Susie, her understudy, have been out for a fast gallop on two of the estate horses, a gallop which resulted in Susie getting so plastered in mud thrown up by Rosemary's horse, she had to change out of her riding gear into a pair of running leggings and a bra-top when they got back, while Rosemary remained completely spotless throughout the whole ride. Clearly, this calls for an equalisation and Rosemary's lovely jodhpurs and polo shirt cannot escape unscathed. So down to the dungeon they head, where there just happens to be a fresh tub of liquid mud handy, and Rosemary submits to being muddied by Susie.
Of course in reality they both love the mud, so after a few turns in which Rosemary gets her jodhpurs well glooped, Susie submits to having her leggings and top mud-drenched too.
Both girls end up utterly drenched in liquid mud, their outfits totally covered and soaked in it, full mud shampoos for both, and mud-smeared faces.
The mud used in this scene is genuine riverbank mud, hauled back to the Hall dungeons in buckets and mixed with warm water to make it liquid.
Lizzie_Claymore said: Interested to know what you used for the mud.
It looks too dark to be thinned-down modelling clay but too smooth and liquid to be actual mud.
It's riverbank clay from the Marsh House estate, buckets of it dug out, hauled back to the Hall, and then mixed with warm water to make the liquid mud they're covering each other with. We used to do that every year so we could shoot indoor mud scenes through the winter, but in more recent years we've just done more outdoor mud shoots through the summer.
DungeonMasterOne said:It's riverbank clay from the Marsh House estate, buckets of it dug out, hauled back to the Hall, and then mixed with warm water to make the liquid mud they're covering each other with. We used to do that every year so we could shoot indoor mud scenes through the winter, but in more recent years we've just done more outdoor mud shoots through the summer.
Ah right. Thanks for that. It must be amazingly fine silt to start with, then. Normally, when you try to 'thin' mud out, it just separates out into sand and dirty water.
DungeonMasterOne said:It's riverbank clay from the Marsh House estate, buckets of it dug out, hauled back to the Hall, and then mixed with warm water to make the liquid mud they're covering each other with. We used to do that every year so we could shoot indoor mud scenes through the winter, but in more recent years we've just done more outdoor mud shoots through the summer.
Ah right. Thanks for that. It must be amazingly fine silt to start with, then. Normally, when you try to 'thin' mud out, it just separates out into sand and dirty water.
It is, the East Coast of England around the Humber Estuary has some incredible very fine silt tidal mud, which is absolutely glorious to play in.