Can you show us your process? I have wanted to make something similar....
I didn't take pictures of the work in progress for this (like I did with the RAF diorama) but will do so with the 60mm scale version in the next couple of months. Here a quick summary of how it was made though:
1.10mm plyboard base
2.Template cut for trenches (supply trench joining zig zag front line trench with firing steps)
3.Earthworks around the template built up with layers of polystyrene sheet (from assorted packaging)
4.Sides surrounded with cereal packet card, then 'bricks' cut out of card glued onto sides with PVA glue, then brushed with thinned-down polyfilla
4.Terrain built over with polyfilla, sprinkled with tallus rocks (model railway accessory) and also with real broken chalk from the white cliffs of Dover (I kid you not! Was on a walk along the famous cliffs at Christmas time and picked some stones up...). Also sprinkled with sand
5.Crushed chalk / rocks sprinkled around bomb crater and liberally covered in PVA glue to fix down - to simulate expolsion
6.Trench boarding made up from Starbucks wooden coffee stirrers (asked for at local Starbucks - I do buy a couple of coffees a weekthere for £3 plus a time, so figured they wouldn't say no! Had to cut then slightly narrower to scale. Wooden posts were thin wooden dowel. Didn't worry if not even as this all adds to the effect (i.e. cut in a hurry!)
7.Duckboards made from the above (6.) set into still wet polyfilla
8.Sandbags made from Duro 'green stuff' - from good modelling shops. Roll the desired thickness, cut into rectangles size of sandbags, knead edges to 'round off' and lay onto terrain whilst still pliable to contour earthworks
9.Corrugated iron sheets made out of lead sheet (0.5mm ish, I think). glue cocktail sticks or thin dowel to a piece of card, then lay lead sheet over and with the end of a brush, press into 'grooves' for corrugated effect
10.Paint used was acrylic with some washes and dry brushing.
11.Barbed wire posts made from thin paper clips bent around a thicker paper clip to make loops
12.Still trying to work out best barbed wire approach. I have some Verlinden model etched barbed wire, but it's a bit '2D' so might leave (any suggestions?)
13.Bomb crater puddle was acrylic clear gloss mixed with a little green (Modelcolor)
Those years of watching Blue Peter seem to have paid off (for the non-Brits out there - a BBC children's programme where presenters often improved modelling materials by utilising inexpensive household items and packaging!)
TOTAL COST about £10-15 ($15-20).
Thanks
