Railway men and Macro

I'd seen a few shots lately of little railway figures used in a variety of settings for macro photography. The one that caught my eye was a cracking shot of a a little hunter with his rifle raised facing an oncoming (full-size snail). I tried to re-create this shot, but failed due to a non-cooperating snail. I therefore retreated to the kitchen armed with a set of mountain climbers and hunters/lumberjacks. I found a large slice of left-over chocolate birthday cake for the climbers and then found I had to chop a butternut squash for dinner - time to call in my own miniature lumberjacks.

Technical stuff - Nikon D90 with Sigma 105mm macro lens. Set on aperture priority mode with and f-stop of 5.6. This gave shutter speeds of around 4" so I set up the camera to take shots on self-timer and naturally stuck it on a tripod. Post processed in Lightroom to saturate colours a little and a spot of vignetting to focus the eye on the central characters.