Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
Posted: 03 Oct 2018, 16:42
So while I still have no hint on how to do the corrugated irons but I invested some money into.... guess.. more sandbags ...
So here's sandbags made from, well, fabric.
They come empty with no way of closing them... I filled the trial ones here with some fine earth.
The look... hm... okay-ish-y...
Well, let me elaborate a bit:
They are a bit oversized (see our KuK officer for scale) but this is okay as I suppose there where all kinds of sizes for sandbags, given that those where everywhere for four years of war.
The true problems are really a) there is no way of closing them properly, and it's really annoyingly fiddly doing this with string... and I wouldn't like to do this for a couple of hundreds... It can be done... okay... but it's really fiddly and annoying as mentioned earlier (as in: 24 words back... )...
The other, not entirely insubstantial, problem is the unchangeable fact that they are, while looking fine initially, way too "rough" in weave for scale...
Assessment: nice, okay-ish, but because of several factors I would not, actually will not, use them on the completely exposed segments.
They look decent on top of the ground ones when placed transversely as long as something is above them and they are not fully exposed to vision... so another slightly more high def layer for the trenches, still not a one to be exposed.
As for the corrugated iron, I've been thinking about getting some resin (or of any material really) and using it as "stamp" to form lead foil on them because lead foil would be near to ideal, being "ruin-able" as well as looking already appropriately the raw . We'll see... probably won't work, but that's my calculated pessimism speaking here .
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
So here's sandbags made from, well, fabric.
They come empty with no way of closing them... I filled the trial ones here with some fine earth.
The look... hm... okay-ish-y...
Well, let me elaborate a bit:
They are a bit oversized (see our KuK officer for scale) but this is okay as I suppose there where all kinds of sizes for sandbags, given that those where everywhere for four years of war.
The true problems are really a) there is no way of closing them properly, and it's really annoyingly fiddly doing this with string... and I wouldn't like to do this for a couple of hundreds... It can be done... okay... but it's really fiddly and annoying as mentioned earlier (as in: 24 words back... )...
The other, not entirely insubstantial, problem is the unchangeable fact that they are, while looking fine initially, way too "rough" in weave for scale...
Assessment: nice, okay-ish, but because of several factors I would not, actually will not, use them on the completely exposed segments.
They look decent on top of the ground ones when placed transversely as long as something is above them and they are not fully exposed to vision... so another slightly more high def layer for the trenches, still not a one to be exposed.
As for the corrugated iron, I've been thinking about getting some resin (or of any material really) and using it as "stamp" to form lead foil on them because lead foil would be near to ideal, being "ruin-able" as well as looking already appropriately the raw . We'll see... probably won't work, but that's my calculated pessimism speaking here .
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz