

soldiers from Hasslefree Minis in the UK. Both of these guys are super cool and as soon as I saw them I knew I needed to use them for something. Much like the bricks they were imported from outside the US and required a bit of a shipping wait. Totally worth it though.

a corner? How tall was it and how tall do I need it? Did I buy enough bricks?
Finally I decided on a straight wall that was a few rows taller than the standing soldier.
Building the was took close to an hour, I think. I'm not quite positive on the actual time, because I was in the zone and listening to music.I had to be careful how I assembled it, because I wanted as straight a wall as possible. I ended up using tweezers and super glue to assemble it.


So the plan from the word go was to shoot it with a bb gun. This would blow the bricks apart and give the breakage a better, more realistic break. It worked well too! I did have a minor issue with it, where it blew the upper most section off, but I glued it back into place easily.
I made sure to grab and scrap pieces from the breakage, so I could use them as pieces of rubble on the ground. Then I went to work with the green stuff to cover the floor.

This process took a while, because I needed to wait for the glue to set before I could put more glue on and more rubble on top. But in the end the extra wait time was worth it and it turned out nice. I even took some left over solid bricks and added them in to help with the effect.
Due to the way the wall broke, I had to move Woody (the crouching soldier) to a different position. Rather than having both soldiers hiding directly behind the wall, they are no both hiding to the left of the opening. This set up seems more believable to me, since I doubt he would be trying to crouch behind that little amount of wall structure.

That's it for now. But you can follow the progress of this project on Twitter as well. I am already deep into the painting phase, you can expect another WIP post within a few days.