Just like making a pizza!

Time to think about a base to put the Airfix Stolly on. My traditional method is to cut a piece of Styrofoam to a standard sized rectangle to match up with the other bases I have made. Indeed, this is what I decided to do in this case to! The Styrofoam comes from a time when shop pizzas came with base made out of that material. Long gone to be replaced by more environmentally friendly cardboard, I did, as is my way, keep a box ful of these pizza bases so I have stock for many years to come and fond memories of consuming the pizzas that said bases supported!

I do tend to add a piece of mounting card to the underside of the foam to add to the strength so first job was to cut foam and card to size for the base.

Second job was to use a rattle can to spray one side of the foam grey and the glue it to the card.

With that done it was topping time, just like a pizza, (oh the memories!). In this case I am trying to mimic a rough stone area which is not maintained so will have grass and similar vegetation growing through or over it. The stone is some old model railway ballast that I had in a draw and was applied to a coat of PVA glue.

Leaving it all to dry overnight I have covered the stone with a plastic bag so that the glue will not stick to it and on top of that a wooden board with heavy jars should keep things flat - hopefully.

So with my version of pizza making underway I do actually feel like a real pizza - hope Mrs. Woody does too!