Tiny Epic Stonehenge

I started off with a toy model kit of Stonehenge.  I bought this one at the Stonehenge visitor centre but it is widely available in bookshops and on Amazon.  It is called ‘Build your own Stonehenge’ and is published by Running Press in their Mega Mini Kits range.

The kit comes as a set of precoloured plastic stones, approximately 10mm scale I suppose although no official scale is given, it is a toy after all.  There is also a small jigsaw puzzle which shows the layout and a book which combines some basic historical information with some mythical associations and fantastical speculation about aliens, great stuff.

What I want is a terrain piece to go with my ancients 28mm armies.  I have Celts and Bronze Age Europeans so a stone circle should fit right in.

I needed a base. The kit comes with a small jigsaw with a numbered layout marked on it, the numbers corresponding to ones stamped into the bottom of the stones in the kit.  I put the jigsaw together, laid out the stones in the correct formation and then transfered them  onto an mdf base.  This one is 2mm mdf which has been cut slightly larger than the size of the jigsaw puzzle and then had the edges sanded to help it blend onto the table.

I used a spare miniature to check the layout of the stones to make sure I could move easily through the terrain.  They were a bit tightly packed when using the given layout distances so I moved the outer circle further away from the inner.  I debated changing the formation of the stones but decided to go with the “accurate” layout.

The stones were then superglued to the base.

Now to texture the base.  I painted a heavy duty PVA onto the base.  I pressed a couple of bits of slate that were approximately the same size as some of the stones into the glue.  Then a layer of sand and small stones was sprinkled on.

This will need to dry for a couple of hours so more of this project tomorrow.