Monday, June 3, 2013

Trench Building 101

Now pay attention trench students, Professor Dave has prepared a lesson for you!



Routed MDF






Rolled Crazy-Clay for making sandbags






Checked for scale



Glued into place



Checked again. This is a 30 man platoon occupying a 50 yard stretch of trench




Individual sandbags have been cut to add an extra level of detail...





Which are then placed at random intervals to achieve the desired effect



Front and rear corner section



Machinegun platoon in a 'T'section of trench



Joined




Raised an extra level in places, again for effect




Checked for height scale




Ready for detailing





Copious amounts of sawdust (Dave's other job is at a mill)




After drying





Ground detailing begins





Cheap water colour paints are used 


Bourbon and Cola cans for scale purposes 




The paint is literally slapped on, as this adds to the eventual effect




Dry-brushed finish


Stay tuned for his next lesson, after which there will be a test :)





10 comments:

  1. Very cool! Always good to see a master at work!

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  2. Very nice! Thanks for sharing, love the details!
    Phil.

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  3. What a nice tutorial!!
    I adored the idea with the double cutters! Thanks Al!

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  4. Damn good tutorial Al....there's going to be a test?

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    1. Yeah, you lot have to post pictures of your own trench building efforts, Dave will will do the marking :)

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  5. this is awesome! great ooh and a test? well I was planning a bunker but I might be able to try some of this. but I am not going to make a full trench system I am afraid.

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  6. Good morning.
    I agree with Francis. A very good tutorial.
    On the other hand all the great inventions are simple to understand if you come up with them.

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  7. good tutorial and great result.
    thanks for sharing.
    bye

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  8. Great comments as always team, nice one :)

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  9. Excellent tutorial and some really nice trenches!

    Thanks for sharing.

    Cheers
    Stefan

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