The build was coming along at a nice and easy and at a good pace but I had to go and try to make it complicated. I decided I wanted to build a little retaining wall around the edge of the land area and I also wanted to attach a branch from the back to one of the sides....easy enough so I grabbed a can of great stuff and went to work. There is nothing complicated about this build at all: The false bottom is spun plastic, the background is EcoWeb, the fabric is Hygrolon...so why on earth did I use GS?! Well after the retainer wall failed miserably and the branch almost fell down I went back to making this build simple.

The retainer wall is now just an 1" wide x 2" tall strip of the spun plastic with fiberglass rods through them to provide a nice solid structure. The branch is siliconed directly to the glass now and a layer of EcoWeb has been placed around it to give it just a little more insurance on the stability.

Tomorrow I tackle the branches that will make up the root structure :-)

Here is a FTS as of right now


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