Title: Ruins Date created: January, 2016 Description: In a remote prairie sit the remains of an ancient stone building. Notes: Created using a baked clay floor (Sculpey). Scale is variable but HO figures work best in this setting. Base is 9.6 cm x 9.6 cm. This piece was designed for the softball sized display cube (9.6 cm x 9.6 cm x 9.6 cm). Here is a picture from the very beginning. The base is still soft (not baked yet) and the brick walls have been pressed into the clay to make the impressions needed to replace them after the bake. The base is greenish darkish to make a good ground color underneath the ground cover once it is placed. After the base was baked, I glued the walls into place as well as some of the scattered broken bricks. This image shows the foot prints of the various figures I placed in the scene while I was building it. I do this to play around and see what comes of it. Sometimes a very cool image will result. The ground cover has been added. I placed a nun on a worn down stone to see what that would look like. Perhaps she is considering the old church that used to sit there. The old house? Maybe she is just resting. A man discussing a business deal with a cow in the isolated privacy of the ruin. A nude woman looks around to affirm she is still alone in the ruin. Copyright (C) 2016, Thomas Vaughn.