Bases Part 3

Thinking about the Kappa vignette, I  pictured a stream/river bank in a wooded area. The "only" thing missing from mine, is the wooded part. So I thought it at least needed a tree.
My other hobby is designing and caring for bonsai. Eventually everything living dies, and that's also true with bonsai. But with them being manipulated into interesting designs, I don't throw them away. Instead I keep them for making interesting trees in my dios and vignettes.

Having the tree curve over what will be the water also creates a certain grotto type look. This piece of wood was a bit larger and I took some of the smaller branches from the part I didn't use and superglued them to the  tree. You may also notice that I glared the base of the "tree" and added exposed roots, completing the illusion that it is anchored to the ground.
The next thing I did was to take some wire, and copying a YT tutorial I saw, I created what will be a small shrub to the left of the tree. After the image was taken, I "barked" it up with glue and chinchilla dust.

That took up most of the session. Even thought it's out of order, I just had to try and see if Realistic Water would mix with some acrylic paint to tint the water. I took some turquoise paint, mixed it up (it mixed) and poured some in the water area. I didn't want to fill it all the way up, so some went into the T-Rex vignette. Thanks for looking.

Bases part 2

I dug right in and the first, and simplest to finish was the base for the Tie Predator. You see a finale post about that one shortly.

The next one was the cone shape that was seen in Pitch Black when the Marauders first came out of the ground when the eclipse started. That one a day later was still not dry, and was left on the radiator to dry out completely.

But the other two were dry and got their coats of paint. These two will also have water features. The one that will be the base for the Kappa, I decided to build a frame around the foam -

You can also see on one of the mounds (rocks) that there is a bit of gray. despite measuring twice I still goofed it up and needed to expand the rock with some Aves, to give the Kappa a enough room to squat. 

Here's where we are with them at the end of the day. Thanks for looking. 

Creating a Few Leaves

I was wandering around for some leaves for a diorama and saw a snow flake hole punch in Michaels Crafts. 
noticed that if I cut the "wings" from the center point of the snow flake it looks like an oak leaf. If I cut that in 1/2 it looks like a trident maple leaf. I got home and took some real leaves from the lawn and cut myself some snowflakes. Then I tried it with my kid's construction paper. While the real leaves look best the paper ones aren't that bad especially when they are dusted with a little weather powders. 
I think the 5/8 snowflakes are a little too small for 1:6 scale figures. But they should work for smaller scales.
Obviously if you want a ton of leaves you'd prolly go mad first. But for a few,  I think it fits the bill.  HTH.