Raiding the Dusty Wastes

I started with the random “Ooh, Shiny!” purchase and thought it’d be a quick and easy paintjob. Nope, I sat around and then tried painting it once before scraping paint and deciding to strip it entirely. After a short amount of time looking back and forth between the mini and the others that were nicely based/painted I thought this would have a proper plinth to stand on and be just as visually interesting. Away I went to creating the stairwell as close to scale as I could get without actually doing mathematics and driving myself batty with sculpting. I know there will be more to add on in the future before this is “done” with details but here is the bare bones with interesting grit texture courtesy of my mainstay Golden pumice additive.

Here you see the base plinth I bought and work upon. I built a small platform of basswood strip and glued a segment of plasticard for the step.  On top of all this I used Apoxiesculpt to make the stone both worked and natural where the min