Fastforward to 2020... I was looking at the model and a decided to finish this one. It was a impulse decision and before I knew it, I was building a base. I started with an asphalt road, using styrene sheet, adding texture to it and scribing cracks in the asphalt.

Several layers of paint were applied to the road before I was happy with the result.

I used sponge to do the road markings.

I decided to use jersey barriers from Meng Model. I had fun painting and weathering these.

Fixed the barriers to the base.

After seeing a photo of iraqi street with barriers and election posters, I wanted to try replicating this scene. Here is how it turned out. I weathered the road using a ton of different pigments and some rubble.

I didn't really know what to do with the second part of the base. I tried using road guardrail, I tried some road blocks, but nothing seemed to work, as I felt it was taking the focus of the vehicle. Finally, I decided to do a simple setup with some trash and traffic cones... and a rat!

The leaflets were added as well. I tried getting the sense of wind turbulence (similar to the posters on the jersey barriers) to depict the vehicle passing by.

And here's the finished base. It is a rather small base, about 17 x 13 cm, as I wanted the vehicle to be a focal point of the vignette.