Desert Cacti Basing Bits, Pack of 30

Desert cacti for Wild West, desert and alien-world bases, from barrel cacti and prickly pear to tall saguaros. Each is the plant alone, ready to set into your own groundwork.

• 30 pieces in 25 designs, the smaller ones two or more to a pack
• Sizes from 7 to 30 mm, for 28mm figures (they suit 32mm too)
• Ships with all 30 pieces on one sprue (the 4th picture), in unpainted grey resin: snip free, glue, texture and paint
• Our own design, printed to order in our Perth workshop

30 pieces in 25 designs, all on one sprue:

• Barrel Cactus x2: A squat, deeply ribbed barrel cactus, the plant alone.
• Ball Cactus Cluster: A big ribbed ball cactus with a huddle of smaller ones round it, the plant alone.
• Prickly Pear: A prickly pear of seven thick oval pads dotted with raised spine cushions, the plant alone.
• Saguaro: A tall ribbed saguaro with two thick upturned arms, the plant alone.
• Organ Pipe Group: Five organ pipe cactus stems of different heights and thicknesses rising from one base; sharp, slightly wavy ribs running on over rounded tips to small woolly apexes, felt areoles with low spine nubs.
• Round Barrel Cactus x2: A squat round barrel cactus with deep, sharp ribs, small felt areoles with little spine nubs along every rib and a woolly crown.
• Twin Barrel Cacti: A big and a small barrel cactus growing side by side.
• Flowering Barrel Clump: Four barrel cacti in a clump, the tallest crowned with chunky flower buds.
• Little Barrel Cactus x3: A tiny squat barrel cactus with one round bud on top.
• Young Saguaro x2: A short, fat young saguaro with no arms yet.
• Lopsided Saguaro: A medium saguaro with one low arm and one high arm.
• Tall Saguaro: A tall saguaro with two thick arms curving up beside the trunk.
• Fallen Saguaro: A toppled saguaro lying on its side, one arm along the ground and one curling up.
• Dead Saguaro Trunk: A dried-out dead saguaro trunk, shrivelled and furrowed, with a broken top.
• Little Ball Cacti: Five small round ball cacti huddled together.
• Agave: An agave rosette of broad, fleshy, spine-tipped leaves with small hooked teeth along the edges, curving out round a tight central cone.
• Ladyfinger Cactus Clump: A low clump of slender ladyfinger cactus stems sprawling out from one base and turning up at the tips, two more rising in the middle; sharp ribs, felt areoles with low spine nubs and small woolly crowns.
• Bunny-Ear Cactus: A fan of flat oval pads like rabbit ears, dotted with tiny spine tufts.
• Barrel Cactus Cluster: Seven barrel cacti of different sizes grown together in a low clump, the big heads in the middle and small offsets at the edges.
• Teddy-Bear Cholla: A teddy-bear cholla: an older, worn woody trunk with a crowded head of jointed branches, each joint pinched where it grows from the last and covered right down to the crease in crisp tubercles in crossing spirals, each with a felt areole and a low spine nub; rounded tips closed by the spiralling tubercles.
• Hedgehog Cactus Mound: A mound of twelve short hedgehog cactus stems of different heights grown together, the tallest in the middle and the outer ones leaning out; sharp ribs, felt areoles with low spine nubs and flat woolly crowns.
• Cow Skull and Cacti: A bleached cow skull lying face up, its long face tapering to a pointed muzzle, with deep eye sockets and long curving horns, beside two little barrel cacti.
• Large Prickly Pear: A big prickly pear of many thick oval pads, with round fruits along their top edges.
• Blooming Cactus Clump: A clump of round barrel cacti with three big open flowers on top.
• Saguaro Skeleton: What is left of a dead saguaro: a hollow ring of slender, grained woody ribs rising out of a low, rounded, cracked woody stump with a few small curled scraps of dried, split skin, the ribs twisted, splayed, leaning together, snapped and splintered at different heights, one fallen outward, a few thin dried fibres strung between them; one arm of ribs curving up from a small woody knot.