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Here i present the latest in a growing line of terrain pieces i've built in my attempt to get a use out of old plastic fast food cups and some dirt cheap green floral sponge.
I'm not completely happy with how the paint turned out, but it will do for now



base was a spare section of balsa wood i had left from another project, the plastic was some cups from taco bell i cut down
i had a try of filling around the blocks i made out of the floral sponge with some cheap spackling, to take care of some of the bigger gaps (as can be seen in one of the images), not sure if it did enough to be worth the effort or not

I like that the stones (the sponge stones and that is way cool...) appear loose, worn and with many cracks. This is my favorite type of terrain: Home built and a perfect combo of block LOS and can be interacted with. Tells a story in a sense. Thanks for sharing some inspirations, especially some made using easily gained and inexpensive materials!
One idea. Take some white glue, run it along some of the cracks, sprinkle with green flock, and it will be perfect moss growing in the gaps.
An old and crappy example:

funny enough, i did a tower a while back, and used basing much like you suggested



one thing i've learned overall, especially from this last piece, is that the floral foam doesn't do well gluing to itself, so for the next project, i will try and make an underlying cardboard or scrap plastic structure i think

That tower looks good to! Hope you keep sharing these, and those are excellent in progress pictures. Always appreciated.