An Ancient Persian Monster - Cyrus War Tower: Sorting Out the Basing (Part 3 of 4)

Everything looks quite pretty, just not on a base (see below, the question is how is that going to get on a 40mm wide and 80mm deep DBA base): 

From the rear (see below, with 'notation' rear entrance - but still no way of connecting the bullocks to the tower from means of propulsion, so some crafty wargamer may well rightly claim it is a static defensive position): 

A close up of the deadly Persian archers (see below, they look fairly secure from their nemesis the ancient Greek Hoplite): 

OK testing it out space wise on the plasti-card base, it can work in the 40x80 rectangle (see below, it seems a retrograde step as it now looks as if it is making its way through a snow storm):  

Now superglue is applied to the bullocks and spear-man shepherding the train (see below, the war tower itself is more of a challenge as it is so large and heavy by comparison to the rest of the kit):   

Watered down PVA and sand/grit is applied, then after drying out a light shade of brown (watered down Anita's Acrylic Chocolate Brown) takes the basic "desert hue" (see below, again the war tower is just sitting in the groves of the terrain .. all attempts to PVA or superglue would be futile .. something more "hard-core" is required): 

The base gets a medium shade "wet-brush" of brown picking out the raised areas and leaving the depressions in shadow (see below, as ever [or rather my stocks last] my favourite Anita Acrylics volume craft paint is once again used used [Coffee]): 

Adding a touch of Vallejo Foundation White to the Coffee gives a subtle highlight sparingly applied (see below, the overall effect is quite pleasing to the eye, the bullocks in particular are just the grimy hard working beasts of burden I wanted, courtesy of some Vallejo earth shades and a brown wash. I was also glad of my choice to make two of them "dirty cream"): 

Next: Heavy engineering required to affix the War tower firmly to the base.