"How do you make your 15mm scale sandbags?" Topic

Need some for some colonial gunboats I'm scratch building. Thinking about using modeling clay but am interested in any other ideas.

I recently saw someone using short-grained rice. Looked good, and I suppose one could cook up your terrain later. I'm planning to give it a try (the first part, not the second part).

I've seen tutorials with Milliput. You work out the width you want; mark 2 lines on your worktop correspondingly; roll out a Milliput "sausage" and flatten it to fit between the lines; cut off the sandbags and gently smooth the cut ends.
I've not yet tried it myself, but it looked relatively easy.

Roll out in Sculpy, cut with a serrated plastic knife. Press the top with those wedding bags that you fill with rice, for texture (and you only need to texture the top layer of your sandbags).

275 degrees for 15 minutes …

Viola!

A friend used chiclets – the little ones. They're still pretty big for 15mm, though.

I've done that Milliput way, only with DAS because it's much cheaper.

I found that you don't look at the details, only the mass effect, so all I did was cut from an oval tube with a relatively blunt knife. No attempt to make the ends look right, although I made the top row a touch prettier.

And I'm really fussy about modelling.

I have made 54mm sandbags with Das. Roll out a piece and flatten it to the thickness you want. Then cut the piece into strips the width of you bags. Cut the bags to the correct length, then push in the middle of each end to give a slight corner.

You can make them very quickly – used here:

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Mike

I used clay, rolled out then cut to size for my 28mm Vimy Ridge terrain. I put high gloss wash of clear acrylic then washed with mud and dirt.

Thanks everyone.

Use Mini-Chiclets.

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Used them for a 15mm French fort for Indo-China and they sized out very well.

Ditto on the mini chiclets.