Trees for 28mm

I picked up a couple of packs of tree armatures and clump foliage a month ago. Both things are from Woodland Scenics. Here's what an armature looks like out of the bag:

I twisted the branches to make them tree dimensional, glued the trunk to its base, and then glued the base to a steel washer:

Glue clump foliage to the branches, glue and dip the base into my turf mix, and you have a tree. I do find it surprising how long it takes to do one tree but the effect is rather pleasing:

Barbed wire fence 2.0

Based on feedback from the useful chaps at the Too Fat Lardies forum, I've doubled up the bottom coils. The easiest and quickest barbed wire obstacle is to lay two coils of barbed wire beside each other and then stack a third coil on top. That's what I've done by retrofitting the third coil to most of my fences.

I've also created a sign post using my trusty label maker.

Barbed wire fence

Having bashed out some simple fences and minefield markers, it's on to a slightly more complex build: barbed wire fences. For these, I built my simple fences but left the wire untied on the ends. I then wrapped my 30 guage florist's wire around a pencil. When I slid the wire off the fence, I have the coils for the barbed wire. I cut the coil in half so I have some on either side of the middle post. I then threaded the fence wire through the coil and tied it off. That's more or less it.

 It's a bit fiddly and not as imposing as the real thing, but if you double them up, you get a pretty substantial barrier.

Florist's wire is pretty much perfect for the job. It's easy to bend but substantial enough that it will stay in shape you bend it into.

Minefield marker

In Chain of Command, you can buy 6" square minefields. Fortunately, the tongue depressors I bought are 6" long. So I printed out a sign using my DYMO label maker (it even has the skull and crossbones symbol), pasted it on a small piece of plasticard, and put the sign on a post.

The post and the rest of the tongue depressor are just variations on my fences.