Terrain: Telegraph Poles

Inspired by the excellent tutorial on making Telegraph Poles over on Shed Wars the other day, I had a crack at making some of my own. I used balsa for the pole, and set it into a chunk of balsa on a plasticard base, so it won't stand rough handling, but I don't expect it to have to! Meanwhile, the inserted sticks are matchsticks, not cocktail sticks, as they were what I had to hand. Pictured below (with flash and without) is a certain Great Detective attempting to work out just what diabolical scheme of Professor Moriarty could have caused a dozen telegraph poles to be placed so closely together.