Morituri te salutant
Awning
I really wanted to add sunshades or Velarium, to my Coliseum but because I also wanted to be able to split the model apart it would not be possible to have a weighted ring acting as a counterweight.
I looked back at the rigging I had done for my Blood and Plunder ships and decided to twist lengths of wire together to imitate rope. From those I could simply attach material beneath it to look like a shade cloth.
I used small heart shaped beads and BBQ skewers, cut down to size, to bend the wire ‘ropes’ over.
I anchored the wires to the base by drilling holes and screwing the wires into place.
The base was finished with sand and painted with sand coloured paints from rattlecans.
A few scattered grass tufts and a couple of figures finished the base off.
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