Thursday, June 12, 2014

Trench Build Pt. 2

My trench project is going quite nicely and I already have ideas for future pieces such as more turns, gun emplacements, and command emplacements.  I have moved on to coating all the sections in a slurry of Durham's Water Putty, saw dust, and a mixture of dirt and small pieces of gravel swept up from my garage floor.


Sections with dried Durham's slurry




After the Durham's had dried (a few hours), I painted with a sample pint of brown acrylic wall paint I'd found on the clearance  shelf at Home Depot.  In addition, I sprinkled the floor of each section with the stuff I found on my garage floor. Most of this will be covered by planking, however I thought it would give a nice look for any dirt peeking through the planks. You can see a definitive styrofoam look to the walls, but this will all be covered in shoring. I have kicked around wattle fencing, but planking will be much faster and it'll look good enough for my purposes.



Stay tuned for drybrushing, planking/shoring, and flocking.

5 comments:

  1. First boccage, now trenches? Sure making it tough for the Yanks.

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  2. Trenches are looking good!

    Also, I nominated you for a Liebster Award, as part of my Liebster, here: http://cluckamok.blogspot.com/2014/06/not-leapster-liebster.html

    This post also has the rules of acceptance. Carry on : )

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  3. Chris,

    Thanks, dude! I really appreciate that. Thanks for the comments on the trenches; I'm really happy with the progress. Hope you had a nice Father's Day.

    -Jon

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