Hello Chaps
*thanks for the comments - always appreciated
I am takng a break from the balconies (not on them…) for a moment to focus on other parts of the building’s details – the sandbagging.
Being heavily fortified, the building has fairly tall sandbag walls both inside and out. That’s a lot of sandbags and a lot of milliput…..so I reused a silicone mold to produce the bulk of the piles of sandbags from plaster. Mold was a leftover form making my 3 Great War– dios.
Further individually produced sandbags from Milliput will be added to these to add height and details and fill the void between it and the wall.
Base coated black and painted off - white these will be further weathered using pastels and wahes .
In Aleppo everything was used to make sandbags including pillow casing and duvets (I am told this was also the case in the first stages of the entrenching stage of Great War on the British side) - regardless of the designs and patters – I did include this on the first version of this dio but have omitted it here as I feel it would be lost to any onlooker.
On the LH corner upper balcony there’s no possibility of short – cutting as I plan to show that the near total destruction has caused the sandbag wall to partly collapse- this will be a challenge to do realistically.
Test fitting