{"id":28,"date":"2020-08-28T17:04:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2020-08-28T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:15:39","slug":"making-drystone-walls-for-my-10mm-wargaming-miniatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Making drystone walls for my 10mm wargaming miniatures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have recently gotten into 10mm wargaming and invested in two forces (from pendraken’s warband range). I chose this scale for the following reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The figures are cheap. For a relatively low price (compared to larger scales) you can get a respectable force. Many of my friends are interested in wargaming, they are intimidated by the cost of, say, a Warhammer army. This way I can own several armies my friends can play with.<\/li>
  2. Because of the smaller scale and less detail, I have an easier time speed painting them. I can crank out large forces of 10mm figures quickly (for me).<\/li>
  3. I require far less table space for gaming, and this means I can easily carry anything I need with me.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    My first terrain project has been drystone field walls, mainly inspired by my travels in northern Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Step one:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    I started by cutting out a series of bases for the walls out of an old egg carton. I painted the underside black and the top side brown – cheap craft paints are best for this, no point wasting expensive paints. I varied the length of these walls, with the smallest being 5cm long and the longest 12cm. The edges are cut into points, so that I can but them up against each other in any angle I like, eliminating the need for corner pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Painted bases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Step two:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Next I started making the actual walls. To do this I used thin brush on superglue. Little by little I glued small rocks (more like gravel) onto the base, using tweezers. This is time consuming and fiddly, but I find it oddly relaxing, and I find the result looks good. I like to vary the size of the gravel used, and adding small pebbles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    One way of saving time and adding some colour is to have part of the wall be hedges. To do this I simply glued on some clump foliage here and there to break up the stonework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In order to make the rather flimsy egg carton card straight and not bowed, keep the areas not yet worked on weighed down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    I’m using the flock box to keep the card flat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Step three:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    So, my next step was adding ground cover. First I gave the exposed card a thick layer of PVA glue, and then a layer of my ground covering – dirt from the garden that had been sterilised in the oven and sieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When this is dry, I added my homemade flock and I cut pieces off gamer grass tufts. To seal it I sprayed on a mixture of pva glue, a drop of dish soap and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    A completed wall with a 10mm Pendraken goblin for scale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    In my next post I’ll write about adding fun details to vary the walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have recently gotten into 10mm wargaming and invested in two forces (from pendraken’s warband range). I chose this scale for the following reasons: The figures are cheap. For a relatively low price (compared to larger scales) you can get a respectable force. Many of my friends are interested in wargaming, they are intimidated by … Continue reading Making drystone walls for my 10mm wargaming miniatures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,11,10],"tags":[6,8,7,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}