How to Build 28mm Stone Walls
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- In this video, Greg teaches you how to make your own stone walls for tabletop wargaming. This video is one of a 5-part series showing simple, beginner terrain techniques for new hobbyists. The walls shown in this tutorial can be used for almost any era of history (or fantasy games) and can easily be scaled down to 20mm, 15mm, or any scale you like. There are incredibly cheap to create if you're on a budget!
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Looks like this technique would work equally well for "going large" to build stone castles or forts!
Absolutely! We've used it for castles already!
As someone who is getting back into minitures again this guide was one of the best I seen good job guys cant wait to see more.
That's how i have build sceneries for Warhammer and WH40K for my friends during many years. i didn't play GW games but i really enjoyed doing all these 28mm things (walls, houses, ruins etc...) for them.
To go further:
- pain some stones at random with a different shade of grey and or light brown. Use pics as reference.
- add some flocking ( is that the name? ) to represent vegetation and moss.
You can go even deeper and add bitz of your wargame gear ( axe, shield, ammo crate, peasants tools ) to add to the character.
Love it. This is so versatile and simple. I will definitely be scaling it down tho 1/72 (20mm) and making some for my Napoleonics!
One major thing is that you can grab a rough rock or similar thing (I've actually got a good sized piece of lava rock that was a sample from a garden store) rather than the ball of foil. You can get some better texture out of it, and you don't need to keep uncrumpling it and recrumpling to renew the texture on it with larger jobs.
I'd also suggest that you buy your foam as the 1/2" thickness at most stores when making walls. Makes things a whole lot easier to make them since you only need to worry about cutting one dimension there.
Also, after adding the store pattern with the pen, you can enhance it easily with the craft knife in making it look more like stonework
Thanks! Going to have my kids try this with me.
I’m thinking perhaps cutting some 1/2” wide strips of aluminum and gluing them to the bottoms of the walls would help them stand up better. If you don’t want to cut the metal yourself you could always order some 1/2”x1-1/2” bases from Wargame Accessories.
Tongue depressors, which are like fat popsicle sticks and are available from most craft shops, work well for this.
Great vid and good tutorial!
Good and easy tutorial, thumbs up.
Great video! Thank you for showing this one!
Perfect! Make more easy tutorials please! Maybe a basing guide
Brilliant! That is an excellent tutorial!
Will definitely use this!
Thank you this was really useful
I've found in using the pen the ink sometimes bleeds through. So instead of the pen, I use a wooden dowel about the size of a pencil. I put a point on the end by using a pencil sharpener, I refer to it as my blind pencil.
So awesome
Great tutorial :D, I will defiantly be trying this out for my table. what material would you use for 15mm or 6mm scale?
Try a little yellow in you med gray.
Sweet dude. Get a job lot of cocktail sticks and rustle up palisades!
The simplest process is usually the best, then you can get back to the table and play
To make the walls not tip over - if you don't give them a base - push one or a few short screws with a flat head into the styrofoam from the underside.
If you are going to be wargaming New England, you are going to need a lot of foam; we have a lot of potatoes.
If you want an authentic saxon wall to use as a guide for the pattern look at www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/987-year-old-saxon-wall-in-mendips-restored-by-devoted-4508228
Where's the scotch?! Doesn't seem like an official LWTV video without the scotch.
Nice models. But I am a stone mason and I would get sacked if my walls looked like that ;)