Grasshoppers and Elephants
Building a firebase
I thought it was about time that I started working on some more scenery.
Thought it would be cool to build the corner of a fire base for my 20mm US infantry platoon to defend.
Using up some resin bunkers and dug outs I already had from Brittania miniatures, I started working out how I was going to place the separate areas.
The bunkers will hopefully look like they have been dug into a hill side with a protective burm with sandbags on top protecting the fire base.
The hilly part is built onto an 8″ by 8″ Cork mat with two 8″ by 4″ defensive berm sections and one corner section on a 4″ by 4″ tile.
My plan is to use up bits and bobs I have laying around, the hillside is airdry clay covered in kitchen towel and pva glue sprinkled with sand.
The sandbags are milliput and greenstuff and the defensive berms are the tops of some vacume moulded trench lines I had laying about.
To get the levels of the bunkers I balanced them on odds and ends that were the height I wanted then back filled with clay.
Getting the levels right 
Clay and kitchen towel time
Perimeter defences being sanded, bird grit is great for this
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