Having worked out a look I am happy with, and having for a variety of reasons been absent from the. painting table for some months,. I have finally managed to find a little of the old 'painting mojo', and produced a batch of barbed wire sections for the Great War Spearhead battlefield.
I used Scotchbright pot scrubbing pads (thanks to Robert Dunlop for the idea), cut to size, on textured bases (built up with 'No More Gaps', a building product) to create the sections. There are 20 sections in this batch, each 3" long. This allows an additional 5' of trench frontage to be covered. Added to the previous batch, I can now model opposing linear trench lines a la 1915-17) of five feet in length.
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| The batch straight off the production line |
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| A battlefield with some troops deployed. This is a four foot frontage, with one French division (Irregular 6mm) on the left, and two German regiments (Irregular 6mm)on the right. This frontage ought of course to see a French Corp (two divisions) attacking against a German division defending. |
Now.. where was I?
Can't have too much barbed wire for a First World War battlefield (sadly). These look the business! It's great how simple materials can produce such a good effect. That battlefield looks brilliant.
ReplyDeleteRegards, James