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Title: making orchards and walls
Post by: Norm on 08 October 2014, 07:18:03 AM

Making orchards and walls for 10mm (re-designing the orchards to be more functional by also being usable for roadside cover).

Link -

http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/orchard-and-wall-for-10mm.html

Title: Re: making orchards and walls
Post by: Eric the Shed on 08 October 2014, 10:01:36 AM

looking good...

a good substitute for your walls are the cork spacers used in laminate flooring

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Cork-Expansion-Strips-600x13x7-5mm-18-Pack/p/620954 (http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Cork-Expansion-Strips-600x13x7-5mm-18-Pack/p/620954)

These come in long strips and are very flexible...

Hopefully the attached picture gives you an impression of the final result

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-knxe5ddJqZ0/T1-jA1IJCMI/AAAAAAAAAOM/V33qFEsu2zA/s1600/Advancing+on+the+right.jpg)

Title: Re: making orchards and walls
Post by: Norm on 08 October 2014, 01:30:07 PM

I like those - does the cork form a 'core' like my cardboard or is the cork actually cut into to give it that stone effect?

Title: Re: making orchards and walls
Post by: Eric the Shed on 08 October 2014, 09:20:38 PM

Just nibbled the top and then painted...no stones, ballast or sand required

Title: Re: making orchards and walls
Post by: S44lade on 08 October 2014, 11:02:12 PM

very neat, effective and looks great on-table without having to spend hours on work to get it right - a winner all-round.

Are the crop fields doormat offcuts?

Title: Re: making orchards and walls
Post by: fastolfrus on 08 October 2014, 11:24:51 PM

And those cork strips have been on sale in Poundland.

(Although none in our local store last week)

Title: Re: making orchards and walls
Post by: Argonor on 08 October 2014, 11:58:38 PM

Quote from: S44lade on 08 October 2014, 11:02:12 PM

Are the crop fields doormat offcuts?

I would guess so.

A note on crops, though:

Whereas those mats are nice for modern crops, most cereal crops were much taller back then. I have seen drawings and paintings showing reapers in fields of wheat taller than a man.

Doormats are still better than nothing though, but I would really like to find some with longer brittles.  :)

Title: Re: making orchards and walls
Post by: Eric the Shed on 09 October 2014, 08:57:30 AM

They are indeed door mats...great for 10mm scale not so good for 28mm