| Colin Hagreen | 21 May 2009 10:57 p.m. PST |
Hi all, I'm trying to get into WW1 at the moment, ably assisted by Renegade's great deals. So here's the first of three or four trench sections I'm going to make. picture
picture
picture
picture
picture
picture
picture The first one's a general shot of the finished item, the others are constructional pics. If they're of any interest, I'll put together a proper walk-through page. Cheers, Colin
South London Warlords |
| BravoX | 22 May 2009 1:37 a.m. PST |
Really nice, been thinking to get some early war Renegades myself. |
| Rob UK | 22 May 2009 3:24 a.m. PST |
Very nice indeed! I have in mind to do a small trench diorama one day and this has perked up my interest again! hussarbob1746.webs.com |
| Vosper | 22 May 2009 5:47 a.m. PST |
|
| bsrlee | 22 May 2009 6:47 a.m. PST |
For WW1 trenches, unless its a very quiet sector or 2nd or 3rd line of trenches, forget the grass. Plenty of splintered tree bits, old planks, boxes, general rubbish. Then the wire starts! And the craters & mounds. |
| Colin Hagreen | 22 May 2009 8:31 a.m. PST |
Definitely agree about the wire – I have a stack of 100x60mm bases with sections of wire. Colin |
| Colin Hagreen | 22 May 2009 2:52 p.m. PST |
Second piece is underway – picture picture - this time with a HMG pit / bunker entrance. I will have a removable roof so it can be used as either. That will give me four foot of trenches – enough for the width of a typical 6' x 4' table. One more to go… Cheers,
Colin |
| WarWizard | 22 May 2009 7:11 p.m. PST |
Very nicley done. What meterials are you using?
Is that blue stuff some type of foam insulation?
What are the sandbags made of? Thanks. |
| aercdr | 23 May 2009 6:54 a.m. PST |
Good looking trenches. Very well done. |
| Colin Hagreen | 25 May 2009 1:06 a.m. PST |
Yes, it's insulation foam – 1" thick and cut to shape with a Stanley knife and a breadknife. All based on 3mm MDF. Wooden planks are from coffee stirrers, upright supports are cocktail sticks. Painted with Dulux emulsion paints (they do a great range, and can match a swatch of your usual pasing paints if you ask them to). And the sandbags are Tamiya 1/48 plastic from a box I picked up cheaply somewhere. The next section will have some corrugated iron as well as planks to support the walls of the trenches. |
| Colin Hagreen | 29 May 2009 5:32 a.m. PST |
|
| oldbob | 06 Jun 2009 8:38 a.m. PST |
Colin; thank you for sharing, great looking trenches! Can you possibly give us your opinion of the figures that you decided to use and why? |
| WorldAtArms | 06 Jun 2009 9:34 a.m. PST |
Its beautiful work, if only he had split the craft stics to the proper scale and powder burned the impact craters it would have been perfect. Still its very good work. |
| Aircav | 15 Jun 2009 8:06 a.m. PST |
These are fantastic. A great inspiration. |
| Lord Hill | 02 Jul 2009 3:43 p.m. PST |
|
