Terrain Workshop: Marsh Plants

This build owes a lot to my Giant Cattails creation.  I'm not sure where the initial idea came from but it does add another type of vaguely terrestrial, marshland type flora that we can put on the table for a game.

Starting at the bottom we have a 3x3 Plate with two 1x3 Rounded Plates w/Open Studs on top of it.  This is the base.  It doesn't count towards the number of pieces in the build and also helps us space them out evenly.  The plant itself starts with two Apollo Studs, a 6L Bar w/Stop, another Apollo Stud (inverted and placed on one side of the Stop), an Eggshell/Crown, and a 1x1 Horizontal Swirl Round Plate which are on the other side of the Stop.  Each stalk is six pieces which is 1 Hit.  A single stack is at least 17 feet tall -- depending on how deep you push them into the Apollo Studs and the base -- and 5 feet wide in 6P scale.  You can arrange them from one to four pieces on a base which will give you varying levels of "density" for this terrain.

I changed the color of the top two pieces to Pink and I also swapped out the 1x1

 Horizontal Swirl Round Plate for a 1x1 Vertical Swirl Round Plate.  This could be

used to denote a variant of the original or one that's in a different growth stage.

The Horizontal/Vertical Swirl Round Plates come in a combined total of nine colors.

The Eggshell is thirteen colors.  Apollo Studs come in 25 colors.  The Bar w/Stop is

available in fifteen colors, so you can have a wide variety of looks with this design.

As you can see in the size comparison, it's a reasonably tall build.  I hope this gives people ideas or techniques to use in their terrain builds. Flickr page.