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Here is my version of the 3-D Nativity Scene from the Scrollsaw Woodworking & Crafts Winter 2016 (Issue 65) magazine. The original pattern is by Sue Mey and the one in the magazine was cut by our own Rolf. I wanted to modify it somewhat so I could add a battery operated votive candle behind it to "light" up the scene. In order to do that, I added a base to it and added a cutout to the base for the candle to sit in. In hindsight, I would have liked to have found a slightly taller candle to add more "light" higher up behind the halo its self. With my hubby's suggestion as to how best to adhere it all together, I "pegged" the stable to the base and then adhered the scene to the stable with some small pegs behind to set it off slightly from the stable a little more. In order to get the "depth" away from the stable like I wanted, it would have probably been better to have cut two full parts of the scene its self and adhered together for more depth. I didn't so I just cut an additional star when I decided I wanted to have more depth. I considered leaving the star open for the light to shine through and I might if I had a taller candle to help lift the light up there.. Thanks for looking and overlooking the newbie mistakes you may see in my cutting. I was able to get it done and gave it to my mother-in-law in the week before she passed. To her it was a work of art and I hope it brought her some love and peace when she looked at it. I forget which woods I used. Think it was cedar for the stable and baltic birch plywood for the nativity, unsure of the base, it was some scrap hubby had laying around in the shop so could have been most anything.