AGS are busy building props for Giogo. I thought I'd post up some pics of a hedgehog constructed from plywood and MDF to some plans that Boshman found. [link]http://users.skynet.be/jeeper/hedgehog.pdf[/link]
They are bolted together in three sections for easier transportation
This one is 2/3 size as B&Q don't sell 7 foot long sheets of ply. I used their free timber cutting service to get a 600 x 1800 sheet of 6mm ply cut into six strips
Ply is glued screwed into timber struts for strength and end caps are glued on
Screws are countersunk, filled and sanded
Reinforcing plate is cut from MDF. Polystyrene balls from a craft shop are used to make rivet heads
Primed
Beams are sprayed with matt brown paint, sprinkled with dry sand and resprayed. Bright orange spray paint is lightly dusted over giving a corroded, rusty look to the beams
Assembled
The milky colour is a wash of matt varnish that hasn't quite dried. I wanted to get rid of the slight sparkle that the sand was giving in bright sunlight
Barbed wire is green garden wire with barbs made of speaker cable and painted up
Nice work looks spot on 
Free speech is expensive these days!
Looks awsome, great job
bloody hell there good, if i was driving a tank and saw that ., id take it for granted it was steel. outstanding work mate
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Shssssssss! Don't let the jerries hear!
I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Worthy of Hobart's Funnies.
I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Spot on
Wow, wow, and triple-wow!
Fantastic prop building!!!
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
..and your barbed wire looks to be far more affordable than this stuff: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/120463811857
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
..and your barbed wire looks to be far more affordable than this stuff: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/120463811857
It's blimmin' labor intensive to make though and isn't especially durable. The barbs come off much too easily
It really is a top effort
I have used this company before and if you combine the postage it works out pretty cheap (I toyed with garden wire but that is also expensive what you really need is a reel of old Don 10 signals cable or thats what it used to be called 25 years ago)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-7m-Barbed-Wire- ... 3f09a4f580
Don 10 is getting hard to find and thus expensive. If you find any for less than £20 a roll please let me know. £25 is now more the norm.
The e-bay 'Halloween' barbed wire is quite effective. It's string soaked in paint essentially.
It does not coil well but is ok for draping around stuff and you can tie lengths together without it looking too pony.
aka Stigroadie
AFRA
better by design
"Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable. "
Don10 for barbed wire? But that stuff is the thin loosely twisted pair, no? The older thicker Don8 would be better to start off making barbed wire due to it being a decent twist and not very thin? With the coiled barbs being threaded in-between the pairs.
Don 10 is getting hard to find and thus expensive. If you find any for less than £20 a roll please let me know.
Army Radio Sales is selling 800m reel in it's payout bag for £60!!! 
There's loads of the stuff up at Sennybridge, hanks and hanks of it!
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
I'd never waste Don10 on barbed wire manufacture, too valuable for pyro work.
Smashing tank traps though. Very good job indeed.
aka Stigroadie
AFRA
better by design
"Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable. "
bloody good job mate all you need now is beachhead!! 
Kiwi airsofter, just pew-pewing.
on the don 10 subject, there is about 3 kilomiteres of the stuff i rolled out in 6 x 500m lengths on saisbury plain.(free to anyone who wants to go and get it 
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being the troop control signaler, every time the sqn set up a hide, i had to run landline comms, to the other troops in the squadron. when we moved to a new lager area it all had to be rolled back in. so i just said "yeah right" trudged off into the night , then sat down and had a rest for half an hour, then i just cut it 50 metres away from the tank , then rolled up the 50 metres to make it look like i was getting it back in. job done
430 am we drive off in to the darkness, mr porta happy and cozy in his sleeping bag in his gunners seat
by the end of the exercise, id used 10 rolls of the stuff 
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Ha ha takes me back to when I was on excercise many moons ago, a dopey Rifleman was tasked to roll in all the Don10 and made such a huge tangled mess of it all he decided to bury it with the stuff sticking up all over the place, he got a good kicking off the Pl Sgt, the good old days eh lol
