Random litter for bases?

[Adorondak]

Hoping someone could help me out with a non 40k project I'm working on. My wife bought me a copy of cyberpunk red combat zone last weekend and now I'm working on getting them painted. For the bases I've done a pretty nice sidewalk curb and street thing. (Will post pictures and a tutorial if anyone is interested when I'm done) but I'd like to put some crushed beer cans and some discarded fast food containers on the bases and I'm at a loss for how to do that in 32mm scale without a 3d printer(mine is out of commission till I can afford new parts and resin) anybody have any ideas or tutorials on how to make such things? Thanks!

[Dr_Ruminahui]

If you pull apart some old electronics, there should be some little round transisters on them that you can remove and then paint up as emptry cans or containers - not crushed, unfortunately, but easy to build.  Otherwise, you could make little cans out of paper and crush those.  You could also find some fast food logos, shrink them way down then print them on paper, which you could then cut out and crumple up as fast food bags and wrappers - though, to be fair, for something as small as a wrapper probably just to get the base colours down for your fast food chain of choice (whether ficitional or not) as the logo would both be barely visible on its crumpled form - best also to use tissue paper for wrappers, as you are unlikely to get as fine of folds as you want for such tiny objects with paper and it better replicates the semi-translucent nature of actual wrappers.

Edited February 13 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Adorondak]

On 2/13/2025 at 12:12 AM, Dr_Ruminahui said:

If you pull apart some old electronics, there should be some little round transisters on them that you can remove and then paint up as emptry cans or containers - not crushed, unfortunately, but easy to build. 

You, sir, are my new personal hero. Scrap electronics never even occurred to me even though I keep a pile of them around for just this purpose. Thank you!