Finished: Kunai Grass

 

I finished the kunai grass bases this afternoon. I've certainly learned a few lessons for when I do more of them (the main one being that I could have got away with using cocktail stick points as anchors, rather than the lengths of thin kebab skewers I used for these).

"Hey! Who's that hiding over there?"

"Just me, again, your favourite Bren gunner."

I decided to see how many figures I could fit into the trails of the larger pieces:

As you can see, all of them can easily accommodate a full section and the largest can fit two sections.

I've used just under half of the grass pieces, so have plenty spare to do more bases in the future. They may not be the most accurate in appearance, but these were a sight easier to produce than they would have been using my original plan.

I've also been working on the bamboo bases. I added herbs last night and this morning I added static grass:

I've begun dry-brushing the bamboo stems as well:

One hundred down, one hundred and fifty to go! I should get them done this evening, then tomorrow I can start adding them to the bases.

Update

And this is what 249 dry-brushed bamboo stems look like:

"249? I thought you'd said 250?"

Yes, well, one of the bundles of 100 was one stem short. C'est la vie!