Composition.
Due to the increased weight of the MDF elements, as opposed to cardboard, a replication of the maquette composition was pretty infeasible. At least without butchering one or two of the elements in some way, as I did, to an extent, with said maquette. Consequently I simply opted to arrange the elements in various formats which held themselves together in a stable, coherent whole until I found one which worked visually.
To give an idea of possible scale I took a trip to a local model railway shop and bought a pair of ‘citizens’ (Businessmen-‘A’) to place near the piece. That was an adventure in itself. The citizens are 1:24 scale (2 3/4″ – 3″, or 7ish centimetres, high).
After a fair amount of placement and replacement I finally found a composition that I feel works quite well, but I’ve been wrong before and I will be again.
I have to say, I’m beginning to prefer this piece without its scale citizens.
