friday.. i mixed up some papier mache...from old newspaper strips..and left it soaking overnight..i like a smooth mix..so i knead it with my fingers..to seperate as much of the fibres as i can...then i squeeze out as much of the water as i can.and rub it through my fingers..to get lots of nice loose..semi dried pellets..if it dries out before im ready to use it it can be re-wetted .and used..i take a guess as to how much i needed for the rockface ..and used white glue to mix the pellets in.this goes on the formers quite well and can be pushed into nooks and crannies with the blunt end of a pencil or somesutch tool..and can be kept workable by using wet fingers to press it into the base..this dried overnight .and it set rockhard..looks pretty good so far...
there semms to be a problem with photobucket i cant get the pic posted.. ill try later.........AHA>>>>>
ok barbed wire.. i stripped a length of household electrical flex to get at the fine copper wire inside...i take six..strands of this and twist them together in my motortool..this gives me the wire...to make the barbs i took a single piece of the copper wire ..and wrapped it arount the "Wire" and trimmed it off leaving the barbs much longer than the finished piece to aid manufacture..this i repeated every three or four millimeteres..[guess]..the barbs will be slid closer together after trimming..the two bits at the bottom are made with pipe cleaner wire and copper barbs..and are a little too thick for this scale but will look the bizz in 1:6th..i prefer the first method..looks pretty good when painted up..this takes a little patience but its worth the hassle..IMHO..
