The kit contains a particle board base, white glue, grass and ceramic “stones,” sized as you need them. Each size has more individual sized “stones” than you’ll need.

Of course, researching a Neolithic stone monument as it may have appeared so as to detail the stones is at best a wild guess.  Today the 5000 year-old stones show damage from the ages, some vandalism, souvenir hunting, concrete patching, etc., but I tried to match a few details.  You glue the site plan of the stones to the base and then mount each stone as needed.

Laying down the turf is harder with the stones “in the way,” but it is easy enough to get done.

After detailing, the ceramic pieces were primed with Tamiya primer and given a base coat of Autocolor navy haze gray. I washed the pieces with some Autocolor pale gray, dark wash and some stones got some washing with brown.  The small inner stone circles were given a wash of Autocolor ocean gray.  Those stones were originally brought from Wales to the monument site and are a different  type of stone than the larger Sarsen stones that were more local.  (If dragging 40-ton stones for about 25 miles during the Stone Age can be considered Local!)  The Welsh stones are called Bluestones and the ocean gray wash gave them a hint of a bluish-gray cast.  A mixture of USMC green and black was spotted around to give the impression of fungal growth.

I thought I’d try a Summer Solstice sunrise shot of the model since most people know of Stonehenge’s relationship to the sunrise and sunsets on the Summer and Winter days.  A flashlight, small vice, and some Photoshop work, produced the image.

Stonehenge research is enjoyable, and quite habit forming!  Having done turf applications twice now I have the confidence for finishing a few WW I aircraft and a Spirit of St. Louis model that I haven’t cased yet.  Plus I’m eyeing one of those ARS Aedes castle kits.