I'd wanted to make some high walls for a while now. All of my obstacles- hedges, fences and stone walls, to date, have been waist/ chest height, so I wanted to produce something taller to block line of sight and offer some variety.
As I've made more and more urban scenery, I felt like I wanted some taller walls to create storage yards and enclosed spaces to make things a bit more interesting. A continued inspiration for me as I've grown in confidence as a scenery maker has been John Bond and his wargaming blog. He produced some high walls a good while back for his Chain of Command games, and these provided a basis for my ideas. You can see John's walls on his blog here.
I don't have carpentry skills or tools to make attractive walls from wood, like John, but I do like to use foamboard to extend my MDF buildings. I used the same material here, which I'd found worked well for the high walls around my hotel backyard so thought it would do nicely. Instead of engraving brickwork and cracks into the walls, I experimented with using printed brick paper to represent the exposed brickwork under the plaster cladding. I stuck some patches of brick paper onto the bare walls, then added watered-down filler to make the plaster texture over the top. After painting the 'plaster' and capping the tops of the walls with cardboard tiles, I added weathering, moss, rubble and posters.
I like how these came out, and will go back to some of my earlier buildings and add chipped bits of brickwork poking through on some of the more bare surfaces. Watch this space...
I made the gates in my usual way- coffee stirrers. The hinges and lock plates are cut from cardboard. The gate handles are small sections of paperclip bent into loops.
Because foamboard is quite soft, I was able to poke little holes into the surface with a pin to make bullet holes. Think I'll go back and do the same to my older buildings to add a bit more 'war' to them...
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