Two Shenandoah figures, a modified Armand Bayardi fence, a scarecrow made from a Tamiya duffle bag, Historex legs, arms and kettle “head” with Woodland Scenics stuffing, El Viejo Dragon grass along the fence. The scarecrow and private are wearing computer generated shirts and the corporal has CG chevrons. The private has a craft feather cut to size in his hat. The corr is scratchbuilt from a dowel with painted paper leaves. The fence was a standard split rail fence reworked to a snake rail based on the ones at Old Sturbridge VIllage.
First, I drew a single leaf and cut it out. I then traced it across the edge of a piece of paper, leaving about 1/4 inch of space between each leaf. I then cut these out so I had a chain of leaves. Each leaf was cut so it had the extra at its base. Each leaf was folded alomg the long axis a. I took a 1/16 inch dowel and broke it to random lengths and added leaves to them where they were tall enough to leaf out using white glue. The leaves were bent over again randomly to give the feel of leaves on old corn stalks.The completed stalks were airbrushed MM Middlestone and drybrushed with an off white from Polly Scale, roughly equivalent to ANA Sand by MM. The two tallest stalks had some Woodland Scenics long grass added to the tips.
The only specific expense was the purchase of the dowels.
I shared these pictures with John at Military Miniatures Warehouse http://www.milminwh.com, a Civil War specialty dealer in New York and he told me he’ll be selling white metal corn stalkls in the near future.
