Village well

First scenery item finished after the  broken shoulder interruption: the village well. It had been in the works for several months already.

I started with a dead CD, and added some BBQ skewers and coffee stirrers.

After that, I added some sand/diluted PVA mix to mimic weeds, after which I spray primed the lot:

A brown wash, and some green on the weeds, and it began looking the part.

By the way, the bucket started its life as the tip of a ballpoint pen.

Last night I added the finishing touches, by painting the bucket.

The gossip benches around it remind us of the fact that wells usually were a focal point of village life.

Even though I built it with my WWII Eastern Front in :72 in mind, naturally it will serve equally well for just about any other period as well as fantasy, with both 20 and 25mm figures.

The young lady is from an IMEX Wild West set, the sitting spectator is an anonymous Chinese figure.