I like your base a lot. How did you do the icicles?
I got the idea from this article here:
http://fantasygames.com.pl/blog/iceicles-make-your-own/
He uses plastic rods that are probably more ideal, but I ended up just buying clear plastic forks from the local Target.
I broke off the tines and held one end with pliers. Then I heated up the end of it up until about the middle with a butane lighter. When the end of the tine would get a little "jelly" looking, I grabbed a second pair of pliers, clipped it on the bare tip of the gooey end, and carefully streeeeeeeeeetched. Get it nice and thin and hold for about five seconds, and the plastic returns to its normal rigidity.
Then it's just a matter of clipping the long stretched out piece to create an "icicle".
It actually took about 20-30 minutes to make my first one. Dealing with melty plastic fork tines was a little hit or miss. I'd stretch it too far (it'll break of course) or not far enough. I got better at it and managed to make the few you see here in the following 10 minutes or so.
After that it's just a matter of sticking them on with superglue. I didn't use activator (didn't have it) so it was a bit of a pain - had to hold it to the base with tweezers and wait for the glue to do its thing. Activator would probably make this part much easier.
Last note: you do want to "dance" the flame on the plastic tine, and not hold it directly. It'll catch on fire pretty fast if left in the flame, haha.
Second last note: you do only get one real chance at heating and stretching the tine. It changes in some fundamental manner after the first heating. If you attempt to re-heat a stretched bit, it'll snap, roll up, argue with you, and will be generally disagreeable.
I was pretty tickled with how they came out. The tutorial above mentions using a bit of gloss varnish but I didn't think they needed any such thing, at least in this instance.
