First I started with some plastic disks (Charity tokens from Tesco) a metal coat hanger and some hamster bedding.
I made some holes in the disks with the screw driver spike
Next I cut some pieces of hanger and super glued them in the holes.
Now was the fun messy part, I wet the hamster bedding with lots of wood glue and started to wrap it around the wire, and built up the smoke plume shapes, after 24hrs I gave it another few layers of wood glue to get a nice hard shell.
Next another layer of wood glue and some dry hamster bedding to get the fluffy smoke look.
Then I added some sand to the base and gave them a blast with the black spray and did some painting on them, I used a dark brown for the churned earth and red,yellow,orange for the fire effect.
I had no idea if they would turn out any good, so I only made 2 this time but I have another batch drying on my table.
The Free State 18 pounder breaks up the the Anti Treaty advance. |
I have to try it one day...the last picture is stunning, very realistic!
ReplyDeleteOhhhh, Clever.
ReplyDeleteA great idea, sitting well to lower picture...
ReplyDeleteVery nice mate. It all adds to the appearance of the game table well done.
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