Attaching the whole thing to the base
It was at this point I wondered how I was going to fix the whole thing to the base, so I decided to add the pavement underneath the wall; this then resulted in adding the side walls to the base. The triangles pieces are for strength and support.
The wall’s texture was created with Molak modelling filler, this is a creamy paste that spreads brilliantly, and doesn’t shrink, being spread with a small spatula like the ones used for spreading royal icing on cakes. It looks like a miniature pointing trowel; this was then applied to the pavement in the same fashion but smoothed out more, and not left with the roughened texture of the wall. The pavement slabs had already been added into the surface of the plasticard, so when I smoothed the filler over all I had to do was to re-engrave the slab edges.
The assembly is put to one side to dry for a couple of days and as I haven’t used this type of filler before I didn’t know how long it was going to take to dry; especially with the thickness that I had applied it onto the wall and pavement.
The next thing was the down pipe made from 3mm diameter aluminium tubing, the joint was made from some thicker diameter piping that was too thick so I cut a small piece out of the back of the tubing, and compressed it around the smaller tubing. It was then glued in place with Bostik superglue; the down pipe clamps are lead sheeting cut with a pair of scissors to size. The plasticard strip that is at the back of the pipe has a small groove filed in to it so as to accommodate the down pipe. It was all glued together with superglue, the bolt heads are track laying pins from a model railway, drilled and super glued in place.
The cobble stones are made from Magic-sculp, this was spread across the front of the base, and then cut with a knife tip, and these were textured and shaped with my own hand made tools.