Well I've finally got around to finishing the base.
I darkened the earth and gave it a wash with
GW Agrax Earthshade ink(and spilled the entire bottle over my trousers in the process
).
Then I positioned the figures
The
Sculptamold is very soft and doesn't give any support to the pins of the figures, so I drilled through to the plastic of the base.
Then came the planting, and this is where the softness of the
Sculptamold was an advantage. I just made a hole with a needle and simply glued each stem in place with Evo-Stik, which I use because it is brown and flexible. I started in the middle and worked outwards, in case I ran out of plants.I did at one point and made some more, and it could do with a few more at the back. I still have a couple of sprigs left, but I can't be bothered now.
All told it took me about an hour.
And that's all there is to it.
...............and then I realised I hadn't painted the rifle slings! They are brown in the shot above because I used brown electrical tape-which is probably why I forgot to paint them.
Now that WAS a challenge, the risk of dropping the whole thing was heart-stopping( well ,maybe I exaggerate a little.........)
Anyway, here is a reminder of what I was trying to represent
And here they are
I resisted trampling too many as in the original picture there are not great paths showing through the blooms as you might expect. What I can't represent are the clouds of dust!
HUGE thanks to Gentleman John(Percy) Race for discovering and then providing the
Nigella plants.
Thanks all for looking and for all the encouragement- it really does help me to carry on and finish these things.
Cheers
Neil