Scenery from Acrylic ice chips

I was reading a discussion on TMP today, where Cacique Caribe was asking what potential uses Acrylic ice cubes and chips would have as scenery. It so happens that awhile back I saw some as decorations at one of the grad dances where I was working security. I rushed out the next day to the local craft shop and purchased a tub of them. Once I got them home I proceeded to cut out a base for them out of illustration board. I made the base in a multi hex patern, asI was planning to use them with Heroscape board sections. I then coated the base with snow texture and set aside to dry. One id had hardened I painted it in suitable erath colours. Once that was dry I put on another layer of the snow texture paste and let dry. Then I took a hot melt glue gun and started glueing the ice chips down on the base. I was careful to arange the pieces as I was gluing them so that there where not any large gaps. It's been almost a year since I made this. I still have more than enough left in the tub to make severall others but I think I will try a different aproach with the base. The nice part about the hot melt glue is that if I want to take this piece apart and redo it it, there will be little or no damage to the chips themselves. I have uploaded a picture so you can see the results. There are a couple of 28mm figures on either side for size comparison. Let me know what you think.


George.