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Adding the Base
I had purchased a glass cloche from Hobby Craft to use as a presentation base and it was time to mount the diorama on the base. In an ideal world, I would have been able to leave this step until the end and in hindsight, I have thought of a way that I could do this. However in my rush to complete the work I had overlooked such considerations. Doing it this way meant that I had to be a lot more careful when I was working not to get glue inside the groove where the glass dome would sit and this slowed things down a bit. I was forced to both work slower when adding PVA glue and also to stop and clean when anything splashed into the groove.
However, design flaws aside, it was at this stage that I also added the last few stones to the model. I added more rocks to the lowest section of the stream, I used some gravel to create the stream bed (which I added after the photo was taken – sorry) and I also added some patches of gravel around the base of the larger rocks. As a final step, I also used some more filler to blend the whole piece into the base.
Something worth noting here is that while I created fairly smooth slopes on each side of the stream, I did not smooth the contours out inside the stream itself. I was quite happy to have a much rougher descent as this would allow me to create a more fast flowing look to the water. using small waterfalls






























