Modelling desert minefields

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

I've realised that soon I will have to model some marked minefields for the desert in 10mm.  One common approach for marked minefields seems to have been stakes with concertina wire. 

So I suspect I will have to get some silvered copper wire and wind it around a thin barrel then glue this to a card base - I'm not sure what to use for metal stakes though, maybe tintacks driven through the card from underneath?  Whatever I do I need to store it relatively compactly.

Has anyone else done this for 10mm?

Regards

Edward

[mart678]

Edward
Try 28 gauge beading wire its about £1.70 for 50m roll and it will also do the stakes or 20 gauge if you want thicker
Martin

[Albie Bach]

Ironclad Miniatures do barbed wire in 3m lengths.
I used this by winding it round a paintbrush and sticking it down onto cut down lollypop sticks to give 10cm lengths. I used superglue for the initial sticking down of the wire, then PVA'd scatter material on which helps hold the wire in place. I didn't use posts for these. They are fairly robust - I just bundle them in a box together.

For desert minefields I did pretty much what you said and pushed panel pins up through an MDF base. It was a bit fiddly because I had to blunt all the ends, drill starter holes through the MDF and glue them in place. The texture on the top also helps hold them in place.

Edit - I should add I also had to countersink the back of the MDF and just trying to hammer the panel pins through didn't work.

[sunjester]

There is a guy on ebay doing some great resin bases for minefields in 15mm, which I use in 10mm. They look fantastic!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M03-single-crater-Minefield-Mine-field-1-James-Resins-FOW-15mm-scenery-terrain-/151024176497?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item2329be0d71