Serenity GK - WIP - Base

When I decided to give Serenity her manga, silver hair I looked for images of her (in that palette) online. Didn't find anything helpful as far as the dress or the coloring were concerned but I did find Daekazu's Serenity and thought it might be nice to try something similar to those pillars, on the base. Later on I gave up on the idea of adding moon phases on the pillars for the simple reason that they would've taken up a lot of space and would've looked fake, since creating those shapes sculpturally would've been so much harder than drawing them... I thought a bit about how I wanted to make those flowery designs on, well, the sticks. Painting them on would've given me a lot more liberty and the resulting designs would've been prettier, but since they wouldn't've stood out from the rest of the surface I feared they would come out looking like a print (rather than something sculptural). So I used Tamiya putty to add them to the sticks and then silver paint over the putty. Here are some in-process photos of the base. Enjoy! :)