17th-18th century field fortification

[General Roos]

Awesome work robartes. Poor Swedes crossing that river. Thanks for sharing. Looking foward to some future battle report. Hopefully with a glorious victory for my countrymen and a dastardly annihilating defeat for Sjeremetiev and Mensjikov!  

[Belgian]

Nice fieldworks and table! 

[Slekke]

I'm planning on doing a game on the battle of Holowczyn in my gaming group soonish. One of the main features of that battle, apart from the insane opposed river crossing into a marsh by the Swedish, were the fortifications thrown up by the Russian infantry. So I decided I needed some of those and started building.

Fortifications in the early 18th Century (Holowczyn was fought in 1708) - and much of the 'Black Powder' era at that - probably consisted of gabions, lenghts of plashing and whatever woody bits were at hand. Well, that or what I happened to have at hand, which was:



The gabions are from TAG, the plashing is (I think) from Hovels and the random woody bits are just that, cut to size with a jewellers' saw. Everything is hot glued to appropriately sized stands (multiples of 60mm, the base size for my Great Northern War units). The reddish paste around the bottom of the stands is kids' modelling clay (don't tell them   ).

This picture i once found on the net (don(t know where) inspired me to make my first Fence.

Greatings fron Kortrijk.

Frederik

After that last had dried, I slathered on some white glue and dunked the lot in a tub of shell sand (the stuff you normally put on the bottom of birds' cages - it smells of anise so it's a bit like pastis in sand form):



Next step, after that has dried, is building a latex mold of the lot so I can make many plaster copies. I need to cover the frontage of 6 or so units, so I need at least three times what's shown here so far.