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Concrete supports are easily made with with a piece of thin plastic tube (like the tube hobby knives come in) or such filled with casting plaster. After the plaster sets remove the plaster and use acrylic washes to color. You are going for the concrete piling look I assume, so the caps can also be cast with plaster in a form. Forms like this can be made from cerial box covered on the inside with plastic box tape. The tubes can be made that way too, but it's sometimes hard to get them round. Plaster is fun to work with and can be sanded, carved, and glued and is softer and easier to detail. It also takes on excellent colors with washes. One I use for concrete is coffee. It takes lots of coats to darken plaster so it's easy to control. FRED
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