Detailed microscene

With an hour to spare and idle hands I decided to make a miniature scene with as much unpaid for scrap as I could.  I found a picture on Google images that said "Do it" so I used that as inspiration. 

I can't reproduce the scene exactly but wanted to get its flavour. First I made some tanks from the brass barrel of an old promotional pen. I cut them to size with a mini plumber's pipe tool. 

Then I filled the ends with car body filler. 

 I shaped that with a sanding block.

 Next I made some rivet strips using paper and an old bradawl. I wasn't looking for scale accuracy here - just the suggestion so did the rivets freehand.  The rivet strip was glued round the tanks with white glue.  

I used a small square of styrene as a base and added sprue and stuff from my piping scrapbox and some Ratio (UK) pipe fittings to join the tanks up and added any old plastic grot that I came across, it was all going to be rusty and rotting anyway.  

The whole thing was sprayed with a textured sand coloured paint and then I went to town with various acrylic paints to effect a rust finish.  Grasses and weeds completed the look and now it's ready to drop on the layout.

Photograped under LEDs this came out somewhat redder than it actually is