In the first picture on the beehives post I showed the first stage of this build.
I realised that the height of the frames was a bit to low compared with my miniatures so I added a raised bed from 5mm blue foam. You will also see that I have chamferedthe edges of the base.
The framework built from crafting matchsticks.
GW texture paint/paste applied to the beds and beehive bases.
I painted the white wood work same as the beehives in previous post, I also seem to have lost the photo of me adding the trellis from a thine sheet of cigar box wood liner cut into thin strips and then interwoven to create trellis. I painted the base GW Rhinox Hide. The vines are made from some dried out flower pot moss liner, to revitalise it I mixed a dark green wash and smothered the moss strands in it. I then superglued these to the frames.
Then started to wind this around the frame and threaded through the trellis using tweezers and fixing ends with superglue, adding new pieces along the spread of the vines to create a realistic look. You can also see the runes for air, water and sun painted on to the frames to ago dome additional colour.
For the bunches of grapes I used some green foilage foam broken in to suitable sized bunches.
I then started to attach these to the underside.
All done, after basing done, the model was generously sprayed with Testors Matt Varnish to fix all the grapes firmly in place.
I used the same basing technique as for the beehives, except that I coveted the raised beds in Lukes Gaming Scenics Scrublands avoiding the larger stones and foliage.
Ooh behive brilliant thinking.