goggsy Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 At 7pm last night my daughter announced that she had to make a model of a World War One trench for her history homework and asked if I could help her. She’s known about it for weeks and it had to be handed in today. After a a bit of swearing we settled around the dining table to bash something out quick with whatever we had to hand. It’s unlikely to be coming back from school so there was no way I was using any expensive modelling stuff on it, therefore everything that we used could be found lying around in many households. The main landscape is polystyrene, melted a bit with a blowtorch, the sandbags are air dried clay, the duckboards and posts are kitchen matches and lollipop sticks, and the corrugated iron is paper. The wire is just fine beading wire; I didn’t have time to try any kind of barbed effect, and to be honest most model barbed wire just looks out of scale and unrealistic to me anyway. It was painted with some children’s craft paint, total build time was about 5 hours and it sits inside a shoe box. 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorby Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 That's pretty impressive, but for a quick rush job it's amazing! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Fantastic job and photo's,love the last one.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clive_t Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Great work! Even allowing for the 'by yesterday please' time constraints 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badder Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Well, that's a cracker! Great corrugated iron, great mud, great duckboards, great barbed wire, great sand bags. I wonder if that's why the called it The Great War? Rearguards, Badder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhouse Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Excellent work. It'd take me the best part of a year to produce something to that standard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goggsy Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 Thanks everyone. Strangely I think it helped to have a deadline with this; I didn’t overthink anything, just developed an outline idea of what I wanted it to look like and then threw some tricks at it. It’s a bit like writing an essay the night before you have to hand it in; you don’t have time to worry about it, you just crack on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachnid Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 I had the same rush order with my granddaughter in 2015,foam board,bits and bobs etc,it came 2nd and is still on display in the school even though she's moved to senior school. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary29 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Nice job, your 'daughter' is very talented, I'm sure the teachers will be very impressed with 'her' work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
593jones Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 That's an outstanding piece of work, especially produced to a deadline. No doubt the swearing helped - it always seems to help me and my standard of work isn't nearly that high! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 If thats a Rush job ... you're definitely a miracle worker 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelC Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Wow! (further words superfluous) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 wow - that's an incredible turnaround - looks amazing trench warfare in a box - nifty or what 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonT Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Very cool diorama, containing it in a shoe box is just inspired. So was your daughter up for the 5 hours? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek A Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Looks great, mind you if you had decided to put 'barbs' on the wire you'd still be there now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goggsy Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 Thanks all. It’s fair to say it was a joint effort - I had the daughter fabricating sandbags and duckboards and gave her a tutorial in washes and weathering so there was some educational value. She also had a hand in designing the thing and pointed out the various features (fire step, parapet, parados etc) that it needed. She was up until about 11.30 helping with it and would have been there for the full stretch if I hadn’t sent her to bed. The only annoying thing is that I told her to tidy up the outside of the box in the morning and she didn’t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 That really is very impressive! Very well done to you both!! Kind regards, Stix 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Wasley Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Great inspiration,time and build,do remember those days when my girls were young,Cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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