Here's some specialty terrain for Konflikt '47 and similar Weird War games. A 'Tobruk' or a ringstande, was a small fortification made of concrete, usually at least partially buried and mounted with a salvaged tank turret. They were made most famous at...you guessed it! Anyway, this one mounts a Schwerfeld projector, which is actually some kind of gravity weapon but it looks like a good representation of a laser turret to me.
The recipe for this is straightforward. MDF base cut to size and beveled, chopped skinny popsicle sticks for the boardwalk and breastwork, up against cut packaging foam shaped and glued together at an interetsing angle to represent the bunker. Scrap foam is used in front of the breastwork to add bulk and is then covered first in Sculptamold and then in presanded grout, with spillover into the breastwork to make it look realistic (sand gets everywhere as you know...). The door is scratch built out of bits of plasticard and chipboard. There is a piece of magnetic strip on top of the roof to hold the magnetized Schwerfeld turret in place.
I got these cool 1920s/30s era cars at the flea market today. They are too big at 143rd scale, but they look pretty good next to heroic 28 mm, which are probably around 1:50 scale.
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