This Part 26 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun. Today we are making some bushes, not the linear terrain kind of bushes but some bog standard ones to clutter your battle field and making it look at little less flat and interesting.
Ok here we go.
Spend is still £24.42 in total.
Tomorrow, we will do something else…
/ Hope that was of some interest
This Part 25 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun. Today we are talking May Poles, or Midsummer Poles, as we call them in Sweden. The video below shows how they were installed.
Sorry for anyone who got an early version of Part 25 yesterday, a new version will be out on Friday (I finished a few items this weekend and this week is busy so most of it is already scheduled for issue, but I messed up Part 29, instead of scheduling I published – just life!).
Anyway some good memories of going to the local celebrations at Midsummer.
Lets make one (this one being a large one in 15mm and a small one on 28mm, sizes of poles just like in real life varies)
Spend is still £24.42 in total.
Tomorrow, we will do something else…
/ Hope that was of some interest
This Part 24 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun.
MIlestones have been used throughout history and initially, at least in Sweden for the 17th century, were used to enable the administration to pay its staff for various cost relating to travel. Many materials were used including wood, stone and from the 19th century in iron. The milestones were phased out in the 1890ies but remain in many places today.
So possibly the easiest piece so far, I just took a piece of blue foam, cut a shape and glued it (do not use superglue) on a small base and there you go,
Spend is still £24.42 in total.
Tomorrow, we will do something else…
/ Hope that was of some interest
This Part 23 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun.
Today I have been running around like a headless, chicken so let us get straight into it, you will mainly need coffee stirrers cut lengthwise separating each in three lengths.
Spend is still £24.42 in total as we just used coffee stirrers. Ok, the chicken and the fabric would have cost some cash if I did not have it at home so it is debatable and in that case the budget is blown, however I am leeting myself off the hook this this time.
Tomorrow, we will do something else…
/ Hope that was of some interest
This Part 22 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun.
This is a quick one, so lets get on with it.
Cut coffestirrers lenghtwise in three pieces, then cut small pieces as shown glue them on top of a coffeestirer
If you these yourself, measure and be neater than I have been. This was very rushed. Spend is still £24.42 in total as we just used coffee stirrers.
Tomorrow, we will do something else…
/ Hope that was of some interest
This Part 21 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun.
Today my favourite so far the Charcoal Burner, a very common feature up to the second part of the 20th century, it is used to produce charcoal. In Sweden as in many countries charcoal was important during the war years due to fuel rationing and the of coal to produce wood gas to use for vehicle fuel.
A Charcoal burner is basically a packed pile of wood covered and being burnt to produce charcoal, here is a video (in Swedish, showing an overview, if you are interested).
Anyway this is how I made one (note my support arrangements have been simplifed)
Really happy with that, I will do a Charcoal Burners hut later as part of this project and some more piles of earth to put around the burner. Spend is still £24.42 in total as we just used coffee stirrers and some junk.
Tomorrow, we will do something else…
/ Hope that was of some interest
This Part 20 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun.
Today we are making a really simple piece of clutter, a scare crow that you can place on or next to one of your fields.
Spend is still £24.42 in total as we just used coffee stirrers .
Tomorrow, we will do something else…
/ Hope that was of some interest
This Part 19 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun.
Today we are making some more clutter, a see-saw and a play house.
Spend is still £24.42 in total as we just used coffee stirrers and some of vinyl tiles for the project.
Tomorrow, we will do something else…
/ Hope that was of some interest
This Part 18 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun.
Today we are doing some lazy clutter to represent the fact that sometimes you can just take whatever and glue it on a base and use it as a clutter, in this case a hay wagon doing nothing special on my lead mountain.
This is a hay wagon
And that budget, well the hay wagon is currenty priced at £4.50, giving us £24.42 in total. A painful hit on the budget and giving us a mere £5.58 left to go.
Tomorrow, I am not sure what we will do.
/ Hope that was of some interest
This Part 17 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun.
Today we are doing a Swedish Hayrack (hässja), the key here isn’t the type of hayrack but the material we use which works perfect for the 15mm scale.
Anyway here is a nice slow video now how they are made for real.
We will try to do something representing this on the table.
SO PATIENCE IS THE KEY HERE.
And that budget, well had to buy that steel wool so we are now at £20.92 in total.
Tomorrow we are doing a really lazy project.
/ Hope that was of some interest
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