In no particular order, here are some quick and cheap fortification ideas.
Domino walls
Buy cheap dominoes. You’ll need the boxes as well as the dominoes.
Carve/scrape some stone-like surfaces to the dominoes and glue them down onto the boxes …
Chop some dominoes in half to make the crenelations ….
Foam board glued behind …
Cheap gesso paint slapped on (if thick this adds texture) …
Paint, washing and perhaps dry-brushing …
Small artillery fort (emplacement)
Buy cheap wooden box …
Flip the lid and carve crenelations. Score stone-block effect on soft wood.
Make foam board earthworks base …
Plasticine, coated in glue …
Paint, stormpole/palisade, sprinkle some sand while wet …
Add gessoed and painted stone tower …
Gabions
Buy cheap pound shop cooking mesh and cheap fish tank gravel…
Cut the mesh …
Sew into shape …
Base and pour in some gravel …
Small artillery fort
Eat your gift biscuits or cake, save the tin (Or, if you are me, save almost everything) …
Tape up the tin so that you can apply gesso and paint easier …
Gesso …
Paint …
Wall towers
Cheap boxes of appropriate shapes are scored to look like stone blocks …
Thinner gesso applied, then painted …
BTW, if you build anything, build the battered versions too (!) …
More ‘before’ and ‘after’ collapses to follow soon – just need to dig them out and photo them!
