Making 15mm Wire Obstacles (part three)

  Continue the zigzag pattern down the outside edge all the way to the ends.   Once you have reached the last post then extent the post line further and continue connecting the last of the zigzag lines …

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Making 15mm Wire Obstacles (part two)

  Now that you have decided on a wire entanglement pattern that you want, it’s time to start actually making it. The following is a recommended sequence to use while making the particular pattern that we …

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Making 15mm Wire Obstacles (Part One)

The first step in making some wire obstacles is deciding on what style you want to make. Factors like time period, location, and nation of origin can have a very big influence on what you …

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Camouflage Nets

A real camouflage net is nothing but a net with some rags attached to it. When up close, it can be seen though quite easily; only when it is viewed from a distance does it …

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15mm Trees (part four)

Twisted wire brush trees are another really great tree to add to your collection. Many readymade trees are based on some sort of twisted wire brush design. If you look around there is a very …

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15mm Trees (part three)

Nature repeats patterns over and over again. Does a tree look like flowers, or do flowers look like trees? Why not take advantage of this and make some really easy miniature trees. If you can wait for the …

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How to Make a two part Master Mold from a Drawing

For those of you who are interested in how to make a two part master mold out of a 3d model, it is actually rather simple (in theory). This article assumes that you already have …

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Experimenting with making 15mm barbed wire (part two)

Selecting the wire you will use is a very important step. If you use a single solid wire then you can get it as close as possible to “actual scale”. If you use twisted wire …

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Experimenting with making 15mm barbed wire (part one)

Making wire obstacles in 15 mm can be quite a challenge since at such a small scale the wire would actually be too small to see. How do you represent something that is too small …

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15mm Trees (part two)

Now that you have a nice flexible tree armature it’s time to paint and flock it. Flexible trees have several advantages over their more rigid brethren. For starters they are very hard to break, since …

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