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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Triple Strand Wire Obstacles

The undisputed king of the wire obstacle is the “Triple Strand” made with Concertina. It is by far the most common wire obstacle employed on the modern battlefield because of its ease of emplacement. A …

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Making Security Fences (part two)

  Now that your fence posts are ready, it’s time to add the chain link fencing. The best material to use for this is craft wire mesh. It can usually be found in craft stores. If …

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Making Security Fences (part one)

Security fences are another piece of terrain that can be useful in so many different situations. There are many different materials to choose from when making your fence posts, but for this example we are …

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Making Concertina Wire

We've already taught you how to make barbed wire, but what do you do with it now? There are a lot of different barbed wire traps you can make to add variety to the battlefield,  but …

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Making Barbwire

Almost every battlefield can use some barbed wire! It makes for a great detail piece that can improve an existing terrain piece, or even stand on its own . This first technique we have for …

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