Tag: scratch built
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Making Barbwire (Round Two)
After spending a lot of time recently working with barbwire we figured that it was about time to write an update on the subject. This is a much faster and efficeint take on our second …