Below is a tutorial on Making American Civil War Blockhouse (ACW). A very good friend of mine from the Grimsby Wargames Society built an American Civil War (ACW) blockhouse for his 15mm figures and so inspired me I just had to build one for my own 10mm figures.
American Civil War Blockhouse is suitable for my 10mm FIW Project, 10mm AWI Project and 10mm ACW Project.
ACW Blockhouse
Making ACW Blockhouse
1. The first step is to cut your bases to the desired size either using MDF or hardboard in my case I used hardboard and cut it to 6 inch wide by 6 inch long once you have cut your bases to the desired size you then want to proceed to rasp the edges to give it a smoother appearance.
2. The next phase is the glue the tiles spaces on to the hardboard using a glue gun at edges of the base.
3. The next step is to texture your base. I have done tutorial on basing.
4. Then using foam board I cut the basic shape for the blockhouse which consisted of two basic squares the first being 2 1/2 inches long and the height was 1 inch the second square was 2 inches long and 1 inch high I then glued and pinned the two squares together.
5. Once the foam board had dried I then cut up the reed window blind to fit around the top square of the blockhouse which was glued in place with PVA
6. On the lower square I cut strips of cardboard to imitate wood planking and also made a small cardboard door.
7. The reed window blind was cut to appropriate lengths to be glued to the tile spaces to make fencing.
8. The main building and the fences were painted in Humbrol No. 67 Tank Grey and dry brushed with Humbrol No. 160 German Camouflage Red Brown.
Tools
- Pencil
- Tape measure
- Wood saw
- Rasp
- Paintbrushes
- Glue Gun
Materials
- Hardboard
- Polycell Textured Ceilings Course Effect
- Ronseal Diamond Hard Varnish, matt clear
- Noch Summer Meadow Grass
- PVA
- Foam Board
- Cardboard
- Reed Window Blind
- Tile Spaces
Humbrol Colours
- Humbrol No. 110 Natural Wood
- Humbrol No. 103 Cream
- Humbrol No. 67 Tank Grey
- Humbrol No. 160 German Camouflage Red Brown
Sources
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