'You always want trenches; you ought to ha ben born a rabbit, Snippy.'
Well through sheer luck I was born a rabbit and yes I want trenches! Apologies all my Bully Beef friends for not posting sooner I'm having bouts of not being well though luckily I'm on the waiting list for surgery. This time I might just ask for a rabbit ear transplant, though knowing our local dressing station I'll get some German rabbit ear rangefinders...then Lincoln Tanker I would be banned from the beach for sure *giggles*. So at the moment my only contribution to this site is to ask questions without being able to answer any for the moment that is.
So with all the nice girly formalities out of the way I have a, *looks slowly up to sky* biiiig question to ask if I may. In 35th scale what is the best way to make a german trench for one of my corned beef tins to traverse over and what sort of stuff would add to the diorama without it being either too cliched or too bland. I know I'll need a wooden sided trench but how deep in width and height should it be? Was razor wire more common for the Germans or make traditional barbed wire, I won't say standard barbed wire as Matt has told me there is a site or two devoted to different types, which is all to confusing even thinking about it. I have at my disposal a lot of "dead" figure parts that will do for bodies in the mud and all the gruesome stuff. The last diorama I did was years ago and it was a science fiction one so accuracy didn't matter, this one does for obvious reasons. I didn't like boiling the chicken bones in bleach either! That made me feel a little unwell
Thank you for reading. Regards, Fiona X
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Good starting place would be on the main site here, for the "flavour" of trenches in general http://www.landships.freeservers.com/new_pages/ww1_trenches.htm then for the actual modelling I would suggest Advanced Terrain Modelling in the Osprey masterclass series, the author makes a British trench in 1/35 scale in this title and makes it mostly from readily available materials. hth Paul
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Thanks Paul. I'll take a look. I never think of the obvious, then again if I did there wouldn't really be need for a forum I guess lol. Regards, Fiona X
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