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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15mm Trees (part one)

Working with smaller-scale vegetation is very similar to their larger-scale cousins, but with a few interesting differences. It’s all about finding or making suitable armatures and applying flock to them. Some items make great armatures …

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The Tau Restaurant (part two)

  With the roof firmly glued into place to keep everything else from moving, the holes in the walls for the bay windows were cut using the hole saw. The dormer portion of the bay windows was …

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The Tau Restaurant (part one)

With its large windows, this building is intended to be a restaurant or some other public access business. We're toying with the idea of a +1 to hunger rolls for its terrain dataslate, but that might …

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Tau Themed Bastion

  This project was made with two sizes of PVC pipes and some scrap pieces of wood (hard foam would have worked just as well). The first step was to cut the smaller pipe in half, then …

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Wire Variants

The Triple Strand Concertina may be the most common wire obstacle, but it is not the only one. If you are looking to add a little variety to your wire obstacles then you have a …

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Making Monoliths (part three)

We have finished our first usable printed monolith, and the results are pretty neat! For more details on how we made this, you can check out parts one and two. The first three pictures here are washed …

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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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