WWI Trench Model

One of my hobbies is making models, especially war games terrain.  I made this model about three years ago, but recently found instructables. I was interested in making a trench model after learning about WWI in school. After some brainstorming and many google images searches, i started gathering supplies.
I didn't take pictures during construction, so all are recent.

Step 1 Materials

Most of these materials i already had around from previous projects.

- Polystyrene (home depot)
- Foam core (local craft store)
- toothpicks (I used two boxes for this board)
- double sided tape (not shown)
- corrugated cardboard (not shown)
- hot glue gun, glue sticks (not shown)
- a lot of paint
- sand, pebbles (hobby store, the beach)
- paintbrushes
- hobby knife (not shown)
- hot wire cutter (serrated knife can be used if not available) (not shown)
- card stock  (not shown)
- black Sculpy clay (not shown)

Comments

[bio-logical]

just so you know but tau is spelt like that not tao just thought i would correct it not being a hater or nothing. anyway great work on this :D

[nix125]

i know tao sounds like the shower gel make tea-tao

[William930]

thanks

[bio-logical]

another thing you could do is use washes on the metal and wood to give it a bit more realistic shading and colouring :D

[Xthinker]

LOL I LEARNED THAT THE HARD WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[elkalpin]

I just love this kida stuff!! I'm working on an original board game right now, and I might use this kind of stuff in it :D

[Sk8erboyflips]

This is awsome this realy helps because I'm working on a war scene right now but don't have much matierls :( (sorry about the spelling)

[okrosmax]

The hill thats rocky

[William930]

ill probably make an instructable in a couple of months, but i recommend this book. Games Workshop How to Make Wargames Terrain Book. I used it to make mine.

[the poodleo]

OMG AWSOME! im making a ww2 diorama and i needed trenches, this is so useful! subscribing

[William930]

thanks, glad i could help

[spark2FLAME]

Great job! I especially like how real the trench walls look.

[William930]

thank you! yeah i really liked how it turned out

[knexinventer]

neat